Government

A mayoral forum at the Kimmel Center asked nine candidates about how to fund and leverage the arts to address city problems.

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

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

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 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.

Mayor Kenney’s budget proposal doesn’t increase taxes and calls for a wage tax cut.

Previous chamber rules had allowed only state House members and employees to file harassment complaints with the chamber’s ethics committee.

A lobbyist for one of Pennsylvania’s most influential unions says state Rep. Mike Zabel (D., Delaware) sexually harassed her, and is calling for him to resign.

The ex-lawmaker from Northeast Philly was convicted last year after a federal investigation into the John Dougherty-led IBEW Local 98 union.

The confusion stems from two seemingly contradictory sections of the state law.

Millions of Americans will have less to spend on groceries as emergency food assistance that Congress enacted early in the pandemic has ended.

The former public defender and criminal justice champion is the first rep from Philly to hold the seat in over a decade — and the first Philly Democrat since the 90s.

A majority of the court's conservatives indicating great skepticism over the president's loan-forgiveness plan.

The Democrat’s record $53 billion budget plan also calls for the renewal of the ANCHOR property tax relief program and the expansion of the Senior Freeze property tax program.