Amid a national legal battle over the use of mail-in voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said Wednesday that Pennsylvanians should be confident in ...

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged five individuals ...

As a wheelchair user who’s relied on home care services since breaking his neck playing high school football decades ago, Theo Braddy knows the importance of getting good assistance. “You’re hearing ...

Federal investigators released preliminary findings in the mid-air collision between a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter and a private propeller plane about two weeks after the fatal crash near ...

After spending almost all of her adult life in prison for her role in a robbery-murder, 71-year-old Marie “Mechie” Scott has hope for freedom. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an order Friday commuting ...

This story was originally published by Capital & Main. Just beyond a fenced-off access road in fields of tall grass on public land in Pennsylvania’s northwest sits a natural gas well pad that sat idle ...

This story was updated at 8:16 p.m. on September 4, 2026 to include a comment from Andrew Tupone. A Commonwealth Court judge ruled Friday afternoon that Andrew Tupone, a hopeful Green Party candidate ...

This story was updated at 10:21 a.m. on September 3, 2026 to correct the spelling of Sumit Nair’s name. In the past year, FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has seen a growing number of attempted malware and ...

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Andrea Deutsch, the mayor of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the owner of a pet store in town, doesn’t get health care coverage through either of her jobs. Instead, she is enrolled in a plan she purchased ...