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Pennsylvanians will soon be permitted to personally care for ailing loved ones in nursing homes, state officials announced Thursday.
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday upped the pressure on the Republican-controlled General Assembly to legalize recreational cannabis.
She added that that diligence continued over the summer when cases spiked again, particularly in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
The president’s visit is part of a flurry of presidential campaign activity in Pennsylvania.
Lately we’ve been reading quite a lot about the end of the Roman Empire.
The Republican-controlled chamber voted 112-90 to approve an amended bill sponsored by Rep. Dan Moul, R-Adams.
Election officials across the commonwealth are preparing for their first general election under new rules signed into law last year.
Republicans in the House and Senate have complained since March about what they view as Wolf’s executive overreach.
The ghost was that of Oliver Cromwell, the liberator turned despot, who conquered the English monarchy in the mid-seventeenth century.
Normally, when a political candidate launches his or her first television ad of a new campaign cycle, it’s a soft-touch ad.
“Fires are burning and we have a president who fans the flames, rather than fighting the flames,” Biden said.
Pennsylvania is faced not just with questions about who we will elect, but what we stand for.
From the halls of Congress to the state Capitol, there are more high-profile women in Pennsylvania politics than ever before.
Just when you think Donald Trump has reached the limits of his ability to leave a jaded public dumbfounded, he comes up with a new angle.
The choropleth map shows how the population of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties has changed over the last century, from 1900-2018.
As the summer draws to a close, we find ourselves on the doorstep of a school year like no other.
It looked more like a drive-in movie than a convention watch party, but such is campaigning in 2020.
He argued that putting Biden and running mate Kamala Harris in the White House would be catastrophic for America.
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System unanimously agreed to the move in a board meeting Wednesday.
The ads, the narratives, the manipulations. Sometimes it all just gives me a headache and I look for the nearest exit.