Bill requiring smoke detectors in Pa. child care centers going to the governor
By: Jan Murphy Legislation that requires state-regulated child care facilities to have smoke detectors on every floor as well as […]
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Open Application Period for the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP)
The eagerly anticipated application period for Pennsylvania’s largest economic development grant program is expected to open for 30 days starting […]
‘We started getting sores all over us’: Grand jury report blasts DEP, health department over fracking failures in Pa.
By: Megan Guza A scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report two years in the making blasted the state departments of Environment […]
‘Clear as mud’: How Pa.’s chaotic coronavirus waiver program hurt small businesses
By: Charlotte Keith and Angela Couloumbis HARRISBURG — On a Saturday in March, after Gov. Tom Wolf urged nonessential businesses […]
Allegheny County leads state in mail-in balloting; more expected in November
By: Deb Erdley Faced with the coronavirus pandemic and the prospect of long lines at sharply reduced polling places, Allegheny […]
Electing a new Pa. House speaker expected to lead toward leadership shake-up in GOP caucus
By: Jan Murphy A shake-up in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is expected to take shape Monday within the Republican […]
Pa. Supreme Court: Medical marijuana use by probationers is allowed
By: Paula Reed Ward In a unanimous 16-page opinion, the state Supreme Court on Thursday found that a Lebanon County […]
Pa. Capitol to reopen to the public on June 22
By: Jan Murphy The “no visitors” signs at the state Capitol doors will soon be removed and life at the […]
Ex-Pa. House Speaker gets new job in the gas industry, a day after stepping down
By: The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A day after leaving his post as speaker of Pennsylvania’s House of […]
‘It’s a new day’: Pa. lawmakers to tackle police reform in wake of George Floyd’s death
By: Jan Murphy One week after black lawmakers commandeered the rostrum in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives chamber to demand […]
Some counting continues, a week after Pennsylvania’s primary
By: Mark Scolforo HARRISBURG — The counting from Pennsylvania’s first foray into mass voting by mail was wrapping up on […]
Pa. small business grant program to provide $225 million in relief aid to recover from COVID-19 losses
By: Jan Murphy As Pennsylvania moves into the recovery era from the COVID-19 pandemic, some $225 million of the $2.6 […]