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Pennsylvania

Black Friday (Photo Courtesy Bigstock)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Great ways to spend Black Friday with your family in Philly

How do you spend the day after Thanksgiving? CNBC estimates that 137.4 million Americans will be holiday shopping at the malls and megastores.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district covers the northeast to the south central regions of the state. (Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Surveying Pa.’s 11th congressional district, solidly Republican and regions apart

Voters in the northern end feel weirdly separated from their anchor cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.

8 years ago

Listen 6:09
Natural gas drillers (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa. House begins debating natural gas drilling tax

It's a major priority for Democrats, who have been trying unsuccessfully to pass one for a decade.

8 years ago

CHIP covers healthcare for almost 200,000 children. But this year, its reauthorization became entangled in a debate over whether to cover gender confirmation surgery. (AP)
Health

Pa. House passes ‘clean’ CHIP renewal, without ban on transgender coverage

The routine bill became controversial this year, because the Senate inserted language that would have prohibited CHIP from covering transgender kids' transition surgeries.

8 years ago

On the front lines of Lycoming County’s opioid crisis, Judge Nancy Butts helps people struggling with addiction and recovery during drug court. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Overwhelmed on the front lines of opioid crisis in Congressman Tom Marino’s backyard

Like many places in Pennsylvania and across the country, Lycoming County has been stung by the opioid epidemic. A watershed moment came over the summer.

8 years ago

Listen 4:27
Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

After recent Mariner East 2 spills, DEP mulls ‘additional enforcement’

8 years ago

 Pennsylvania State House in Harrisburg, Pa (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Lawmakers edge closer to agreement on Pa. jobless system funding

A new plan passed through the House Labor and Industry Committee on Monday would give the unemployment compensation program $115.2 million, which would be gradually phased out

8 years ago

Pa. State Senator Judy Schwank
Courts & Law

Pa. lawmakers battle sexual misconduct with bill to ban settlement secrecy

Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank, D-Reading, has introduced a bill to ban nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct settlements.

8 years ago

Volunteers at Good Will Fire Company No. 2 help sort through donations for residents displaced by the five-alarm fire at Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa. (Shai Ben-Yaacov, WHYY)
Community

Community pitches in to support victims at Pa. senior living community

On Sunday, volunteers at the Good Will Volunteer Fire Company in West Chester sorted through large piles of donations for the roughly 160 residents displaced.

8 years ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf (AP, file)
Politics & Policy

Wolf starting to look like ‘two-term Tom’ as 2018 approaches

Gov. Tom Wolf now heads into the 2018 election year with political winds at his back.

8 years ago

A University of Delaware study has found a 6 percent decline in the number of Delaware primary care doctors providing direct patient care from 2013 to 2018. (Rick Bowmer/AP, file)
Health

Pennsylvania wrestles with uncertainty over children’s health insurance funding

The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, provides health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it.

8 years ago

 Cheyney University  (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
Education

Cheyney University gets one-year reprieve

The nation’s oldest historically black college will remain accredited after a state commission decide ...

8 years ago

(AP, file)
Politics & Policy

Next year’s Pa. budget projected to have $1 billion hole

Pennsylvania is already on track to have a significant budget gap to fill next year.

8 years ago

With smoke heavy in the air, a couple walks in the vicinity of a fire at the the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 17. 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

27 injured in fire at Pennsylvania senior living community

Officials say 27 people were treated for injuries after a fire ripped through a large nursing home complex in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Thursday night.

8 years ago

Listen 2:25
A truck delivers fracking wastewater to a Susquehanna County recycling center
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Lycoming County Waste Water Spill Tops 63,000 Gallons

8 years ago

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