Pennsylvania

Two major closing announcements in Philadelphia in June will cost more than 3,000 people their jobs.

Despite a legal aid group asking the commonwealth court to grant an injunction, a small cash assistance for the poor has ended, effective Thursday.

The 2020 numbers show an average statewide requested increase of 4.9%. Requested rate increases for those in small group market plans is 9.6%. 

After a series of incidents in which people have been harmed while in state or county human services care, Gov. Tom Wolf said the system isn’t working.

In June, the county health department announced the draft agreement to resolve multiple air pollution violations at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant over the past two years.

Pennsylvanians who prefer not to be identified as neither male nor female will soon have a gender-neutral option for their state-issued driver's licenses.

Kathleen Kane left the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in the Philadelphia suburbs about 8:20 a.m. When asked by a reporter how she felt, Kane replied "grateful."

Mysterious charges appeared on E-ZPass statements of Pennsylvania Turnpike customers at least 350,000 times over the course of a year.

The mock movie poster, which was photoshopped to show one of the lawmakers holding a handgun, remained on the Northampton County GOP’s Facebook page for about 12 days.

A Delaware County pipeline foe thought he’d get PUC information on the Mariner East risk, but now he’ll have to fight for it in court.

SEPTA is phasing out its paper monthly and weekly Trailpasses. All passes will be sold as Key card purchases starting in August. Click for details.

School staff were trained to think of discipline differently. They were asked to find out why students are disruptive rather than remove them from school.

Penn economist Rafael Robb bludgeoned his wife, Ellen to death in 2006 and was released after only 10 years. Why his case revealed cracks in Pa.'s criminal justice system.

More than 1.7 million people use SNAP in Pennsylvania, according to the administration.

A Salt Lake City-based company is in talks to purchase and dismantle Three Mile Island’s long-mothballed Unit 2 reactor — the site of the nation’s worst nuclear accident.