Politics & Policy

The freshmen congressional members join a growing number of Pennsylvania politicians throwing support behind the former vice president.

Proposal offers rebates for electric vehicle purchases in hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Lorener Wooten worked as a social media manager for City Council. Her lawsuit says the white councilman rubbed her behind and called her a ‘beautiful black woman’.

As part of a ‘blue wave’ in the Philadelphia suburbs, Democrats also won control in Bucks and Chester Counties during the last election cycle.

Philadelphia City Council has passed more than 12,000 bills in the last two decades, without much objection. But as new faces are sworn in, that all could change.

Kenney opened his second term with an emotional call to solve deep challenges and a promise to improve city services, including bringing back citywide street sweeping.

Mike Fitzpatrick is being remembered as a politician with deep local roots who flourished in his Bucks County swing district.

Two Republican commissioners take their seats in Bucks and Chester county government, set to work with new Democratic majorities in former GOP strongholds.

Murphy administration has ambitions to switch New Jersey from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, but fundamental questions about the effects of that switch remain

The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to share certain records to help the Census Bureau produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of those who live in the U.S.

Chris Rowe will step down as New Castle GOP County chair after using the word ‘’faggots’’ in a Facebook post. He apologized in WHYY interview.

The prospect of war could have consequences for Pennsylvania as 2020 battleground.

In the first edition of our series, Battleground 2020, we take a look back at the last presidential election and the factors that led to Trump's victory in the commonwealth.

U.S. forces assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike early Friday near the Baghdad International Airport.

New Castle County GOP leader calls his use of a homophobic slur “locker room talk.”