Politics & Policy

The Senate has easily approved legislation reinforcing efforts against heroin and the abuse of opioid painkillers despite a partisan batt ...

A Pennsylvania judge says he’ll decide soon on a court challenge that contends Texas Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t a U.S. citizen who i ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is considering whether it was unconstitutional for state lawmakers to pass a measure aimed, in part, at gr ...

Pennsylvania’s two large public-sector pension systems say they’ve reduced their investment management fees by millions of do ...

Katie McGinty will be the first Democrat running in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate primary to begin a sustained TV ad campaign. ...

Liberal activist groups in Pennsylvania are pushing back against U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s vow to help his fellow Republicans block Pr ...

The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices̵ ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is backing state Rep. Dwight Evans’ bid for Congress. Following a half-hour tour through the Ente ...

As issues such as what to do about ISIS continue to dominate the presidential debates, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak is t ...

This year marks two decades since a Democratic president signed a Republican-sponsored bill that revamped the nation’s welfare syst ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, citing a shared progressive vision. Kenney made the anno ...

Every year in Washington, the White House and lawmakers in Congress do a strange dance. Feel free to think of it as the budget tan ...