Pennsylvania

During the hearing Ronald Rowe was repeatedly asked by flabbergasted lawmakers how problems so obvious in hindsight were allowed to happen.

The 20,000-square-foot learning center features pasta and chocolate laboratories and a wood-burning pizza oven.

Efforts to find 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard have been frustrated by treacherous conditions for search crews inside the mine.

There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines nationwide — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Dec. 5–8: The Blind Boys of Alabama in Delaware, the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus and Dickens Fest in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

Pennsylvania is among the states that see the most damage from sinkholes in the U.S.

Police said sinkholes are not uncommon because of subsidence from coal mining activity in the area.

Designation as a Community Development Financial Institution would give the Exton-based nonprofit more support to help underserved businesses.

Signs posted outside demand unhoused people vacate “Tent City” by Jan. 2. Tent City sits on Norfolk Southern property.

The poet laureate program is one piece of a literary “renaissance” in Bucks.

The new, higher salaries are effective Jan. 1 for the executive and judicial branches and next week for lawmakers.

The county’s elected leaders appointed David Byerman as Chesco’s first chief executive officer and Erik Walschburger as chief operating officer.

Artist Roxanne Slemmer has led more than 200 people in envisioning the borough’s past and present.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, holiday celebrations all around Philly are in full swing.

The National Dog Show, hosted by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia, started in 1879 as the Kennel Club of Philadelphia Dog Show and has been held annually since 1933.