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A Senate committee heard testimony Wednesday about how rural housing is tied to economic development in three southern tier counties. The Senate Republican Policy Committee met in Fayette County amid ...

Cutting only one-third of statewide regulations would add more than $9 billion and 180,000 new jobs to the commonwealth’s economy.

Just 54 people have been freed from prison during the past 15 years through Pennsylvania’s system to release incarcerated ...

Any parent or guardian who has dropped a child off at a school or child care center has seen the signs. They warn against ...

More than 100 state lawmakers are supporting a unionization attempt for Penn State University faculty, as a vote to unionize could come this spring. Minority Leader Sen. Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, sen ...

The front page of a recent Friday edition of the OBSERVER was loaded with a lot of very interesting news. The first thing ...

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A pair of state lawmakers are renewing efforts for state-required licensing of medical imaging technicians in Pennsylvania. Sen. Lynda Schlegel Culver, R-Shamokin Dam, and Sen. Nick Pisciottano, ...

The Democratic Majority for Israel PAC shared its first round of House candidate endorsements in a range of safe-seat and battleground seats exclusively with POLITICO.

Many expected President Trump to ax states’ Medicaid add-ons – and some Republicans lobbied the administration to do so – but Shapiro’s office says the federal government has indicated it will let the ...

Clearly the Democrats of Chester County are ready for a change in leadership and this vote was a clear signal to a shift in power in the county party.