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Some of Pennsylvania’s most conservative Republicans have given up a push to review and block the state’s presidential election results.
There are many challenges tracers face, including participation, skepticism about the process of data collection, and spam concerns.
The Wolf administration announced Monday that it’s imposing a stay-at-home “advisory” for commonwealth residents.
Sens. Katie Muth and Maria Collett were chosen by their colleagues to serve as policy chair and caucus secretary, respectively.
COMMENTARY: Cyber charter schools are full-time online schools that are designed to educate virtually.
COMMENTARY: The recession will cost the state at least $3.3 billion in revenues—and perhaps more—over two years.
That guidance comes as Pennsylvania averaged more than 4,000 new cases of the deadly disease a day for the past week.
“I spoke truth to power, and as a result, I made the greatest enemy you can make in the Senate.”
COMMENTARY: "This is too important of a discussion to delay and too important of a discussion to allow to get bogged down in politics."
The 45th District is the last legislative race in Pennsylvania to remain uncalled as of Wednesday.
Helping contain the spread of COVID-19 can be easy as picking up the phone, a top Pennsylvania public health official said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY: "We need our political leadership to lead by example. It is time for leaders of both parties to be the adults in the room."
COMMENTARY: "Pennsylvania ran a methodical, secure, and accurate election."
A $35 billion budget deal, buoyed by federal stimulus money emerged in Harrisburg Thursday, a 2.2 percent cut from last year.
Trump’s re-election campaign filed suit Monday in federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, will not be returning for a 16th term.
Republicans are on track to win two of Pennsylvania’s three state-level row offices this year, according to unofficial tallies.
County elections officials can’t count mail-in ballots that weren’t verified by Nov. 9.
Lawmakers elected two female legislators as floor leaders for the first time in the General Assembly’s 244-year history.
That’s an increase of 350 cases from Tuesday’s previous peak high of 4,361 cases.