Katie Meyer

They’ll now get at least 42½ hours per week out of their cell, and will be allowed to eat and attend religious services with other inmates.

Pa. Auditor General DePasqule wants lawmakers to come up with a more comprehensive plan to improve infrastructure, and hopefully prevent future damage from severe weather.

Wolf said he was surprised when he began hearing reports of an FBI corruption investigation into permits his administration issued for a major natural gas pipeline.

It’s unclear exactly what went wrong with the commonwealth’s dated system, but from Thursday to Sunday, a crash kept unemployed people from filing claims.

Pennsylvania is home to a lot of old dams—many of which are privately owned. The state agency that regulates those dams says it has serious concerns about 145 of them.

Republicans in the state legislature have long pushed to privatize the commonwealth’s state-run liquor industry.

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senator introduced a resolution he hopes will enable Congress to defeat future presidents’ fracking bans in court.

It could take a year or longer to resolve whether victims’ rights measure is constitutional.

Voters can cast ballots on the proposed amendment, but the state won’t do an official count until courts decide whether the victims’ rights proposal is constitutional.

The bills are in their early days, but they’ve already gotten early rebukes from staff for one of two pension systems.

The controversial Berks Family Residential Center is one of three facilities in the US that detains undocumented parents and children together.

Union leaders interpreted Corrections Secretary John Wetzel’s quiet aside at a prison closure hearing as dismissive.