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The giveback to taxpayers reflects Democrats’ desire to address what they and others call an “affordability crisis” in the state.

Philadelphia’s school district will spend more than $4 billion this year to educate city kids.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it has agreed to hear a case next term that could upend election laws across the country.

Without new budget legislation signed into law by Friday, the state will lose the authority to make some payments.

The bills passed nearly along party lines Wednesday and Democrats warned that Gov. Tom Wolf will veto them.

The divided House of Representatives voted Wednesday to establish the five-member Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is officially becoming a justice.

Largest spending plan in state history funds school construction, pension obligations, tax relief — and lawmakers’ pet projects

A Seaford ordinance that required burial or cremation of fetal tissue following an abortion or miscarriage has been invalidated by a Delaware judge.

The budget for fiscal year 2023 includes a historic $9 billion surplus.

The longtime critic of the PPA led the first of a series of investigatory hearings looking into what she called the "financial chaos and questionable expenses of this entity."

Without new budget legislation signed into law by Friday, the state will lose the authority to make many discretionary payments.

One bill would prohibit anyone who comes to N.J. for an abortion from being extradited back to states where abortion is illegal.

A proposal to require Pa.'s four state universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions was added to budget.

A similar system was used without major issues during the 2020 election as an emergency measure. Now lawmakers are poised to make voting by mail the law.