Pennsylvania

The legislation was spurred by a cafeteria worker in Western Pennsylvania who objected to a policy in the Canon-McMillan School District.

When Pennsylvania lawmakers return to the Capitol after their Thanksgiving recess, they’ll have a little extra cash waiting for them.

Moody’s says the new legislation has already restored investors’ confidence that municipal borrowers can once again count on casinos for millions of dollars in revenue.

Leroy Evans has spent three decades in prison for a homicide he denies committing. His attorney believes new evidence could clear Evans' name in the Chester City case.

Debate may have begun in the state House on a natural gas severance tax — but it remains to be seen if that will actually result in a final vote.

Investigators found two more bodies at the scene of a fire-gutted nursing home in West Chester Wednesday.

Well Being Trust, a national foundation focused on the mental health of America, ranked Pennsylvania’s opioid overdose death rate as the sixth highest in the nation.

This wasn’t just any governance shake up. It was a bet that state government could and should help fix struggling school districts.

Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor is officially running for re-election but it's not expected to be an easy campaign.

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

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

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

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

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.