Politics & Policy

The treaty will create a new body to manage ocean life conservation and establish marine protected areas in ocean regions outside national boundary waters.

Democrats are strategizing on how to win back the House next year and are undertaking a publicity blitz to remind voters of their records.

Gov. Shapiro will unveil his first budget as he aims to remake the state's public school funding system and to put Pa. on competitive footing to attract major companies.

A Pennsylvania state representative accused of sexual harassment says he's not resigning but plans to enter inpatient treatment of some kind.

Last fall, council meetings moved back to in-person, but committee meetings have still been held online since the start of the pandemic.

Gov. Josh Shapiro wants lawmakers to pass a three-year incentive of up to $2,500 a year for newly certified teachers, police officers and nurses in Pennsylvania.

The $6.1 billion spending plan also includes funding for recruitment of city workers to battle a staffing crisis.

The bipartisan leaders of the committee announced the panel had voted unanimously to establish an investigative subcommittee to look into the allegations.

Brian Burke, who was elected as a Democrat in 2019, recently switched parties amid an ongoing feud with the current administration.

The spending plan includes millions for programs ranging from violence prevention to pre-K to libraries, but the City Council is ready to tinker.

State lawmakers are questioning electricity reliability after a winter storm around Christmas left more than 100,000 people without power.

Incumbent Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes has backed out of two candidate forums ahead of his party’s endorsement convention this weekend.

The brief talks marked the first face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The forum focused on Philadelphia’s rising gun violence crisis, and asked candidates how they plan to tackle the issue, if elected.

The GOP lost majority control of the Chester County Board of Commissioners in 2019 for the first time in history. The party’s endorsed candidates are looking to take it back.