Pennsylvania News

The NEPA Rainbow Alliance held Wilkes-Barre city's first official Pride Parade as part of PrideFest 2022.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling curbs the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s not likely to have a significant impact in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate is approving bills to prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and require educators to notify parents of sexually explicit content in the curriculum and library books.

Pennsylvania’s new fiscal year will begin without a state budget in place, as Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and top Republican lawmakers planned to work through the deadline to hammer out a roughly $42 billion spending plan whose details were still largely being kept secret.

When the U.S. Department of Education lifts the student loan repayment freeze on Aug. 31, a local borrower says she might have to choose between buying groceries and paying back the loans. Others are hoping for federal debt forgiveness.

The nonprofit group Abilities21 is seeking volunteers to help out during a five-day bike camp for children with disabilities.

Whether the high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate motivates voters to turn out this fall is an open question.

Under the measure approved almost entirely along party lines in both chambers, watchers would be allowed to stand at least six feet from election workers and voters, with an option to move closer.

Bitcoin may seem like something out of Silicon Valley, but sometimes it comes from the rural woods of Pennsylvania, and when it does, it makes noise. Some residents near a natural gas site being used for cryptocurrency mining have found that out and want it to change.

Doug Mastriano’s pledge to “reset” voter registrations ignores the safeguards that already remove hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters.