Pennsylvania

There haven’t been any known human cases of CWD, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people do not eat meat from animals that test positive.

Executive Deputy Secretary Yassmin Gramian will assume the top job at the Department of Transportation effective Dec. 6.

Every year, Thanksgiving cooking causes a spike in house fires around the country. Deep fryers are disproportionately the culprit.

The state Senate signed off on increase from $7.25 to $9.50, but it's not clear if the House is willing to follow suit

Issues flagged by election security experts when the settlement was reached a year ago figure prominently in the filing to reopen the case.

Pennsylvania enacted legislation Tuesday to give future victims of child sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits and to end time limits for police to file criminal charges.

Members of a Pa. Supreme Court-appointed task force say grand jury reports raise “considerable due process concerns.”

At a speech to the commonwealth’s Press Club, John Fetterman brought special guests: two recently commuted people who were sentenced to life without parole.

Four years after it filed suit against the Neshaminy School District, a state commission has reached a decision regarding its use of a controversial Native American mascot.

Cheyney University will keep its accreditation, state leaders and university administrators announced in a letter to faculty, staff and students on Monday.

The families of prisoners say that they also suffer during the holidays, specifically because of the state’s tough visitation policies.

This month’s off-year election in Pennsylvania was fascinating mainly because of all the new parties and political faces that showed up on the ballot … and won!

As Pennsylvania state senators filed through the corridor that leads out of the Senate chamber this week, John Yudichak turned down to an equally tight staircase.

After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations.

The research, he said, is meant to address “the concern that there is a relationship between hydraulic fracturing and childhood cancers.”