Parents of children who are not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine should wear a mask or face covering, wash their hands frequently, and consider getting themselves vaccinated, state officials said ...

The Farm Show is the largest indoor agricultural expo in the nation, featuring nearly 6,000 animals, 12,000-plus competitive events, and around 250 commercial and educational exhibits.

The number of Pennsylvanians who have died of COVID-19 has jumped by 276 cases, an increase that the state’s top public health official attributed to data validation efforts by the Department of ...

Despite attacks, Americans have more reasons to trust the process than to doubt it.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says using coal ash as fill may create elevated cancer risk from radiation.

Senators of both parties during the four-hour, emotionally charged hearing promoted a raft of bills the committee has unanimously passed that they say would add significant accountability to tech ...

U.S. Sen John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has been outspoken in his desire to see New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez expelled from Congress, endorsed one of Menendez’s primary opponents on Thursday, along ...

The proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements are part of an effort to reduce lead in drinking water that can harm children and adults and disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities.

Hopes of getting an increase to the piteously low federal minimum wage tucked into the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill were dealt a serious blow this week when the U.S. Senate’s Parliamentarian ...

Two bills currently under consideration in the House — HB 979 , sponsored by Philadelphia Democrats Reps. Jared Solomon and Chris Rabb, and HB 976, sponsored by Rep. Marla Brown (R-Lawrence) — would ...

Since 2021 the Sunshine Act, or state open-meetings law, requires that a government agency make its meeting agenda available at least 24 hours in advance of a public meeting. The agency must post the ...

The bills would reform rules in the wake of a $295,000 settlement the state paid to a woman who accused a top aide to Gov. Shapiro of sexual harassment.