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Governor Tom Corbett's office says his comments about a lack of Latinos on his staff were taken out of context to discred...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for informatio...
Governor Tom Corbett on Wednesday announced the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The New York Public Library have entered a h...
In recognition of national Emergency Medical Services Week, which runs through Saturday, PennDOT is encouraging Pennsylvanian...
Governor Tom Corbett is asking state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for...
Another natural gas exploration company says it's experimenting with the gas to power huge pump engines that drive the hy...
A campaign by Pennsylvania's chief justice for another 10-year term on the high court is drawing criticism by two men who...
Most of the action in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary will be in the state’s cities, boroughs and townships.Politica...
A Pennsylvania newspaper has obtained state records showing that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at lea...
The Pennsylvania State Police will offer free child safety seat inspections statewide in conjunction with the national Highwa...
Pennsylvania’s Health Department has confirmed seven cases of pertussis at three Blair County Schools. A department spo...
At his Funeral Thursday former Pennsylvania Gov. George Leader was rememberedas an innovative, energetic and compassionate le...
A missing gauge containing radioactive material that fell off the back of a truck in West Virginia has been recovered.The Pen...
Gambling regulators say gross revenue from table games at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos was up 8.9-percent last month when co...
Governor Tom Corbett says he'll name a central Pennsylvania public school superintendent as his new education secretary, ...
A provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could affect the health insurance coverage for thousands of ...
Pennsylvania’s Common Core Standards will help ensure that students are better prepared for success in postsecondary ed...
Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele urged voters to cast ballots in next Tuesday’s primary election and reminde...
A top aide to Gov. Tom Corbett says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Pennsylvania under a sweeping federal health care law p...
State senators are continuing to explore the liberalization of Pennsylvania's wine, beer and liquor laws in a second hear...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and West Virginia state offic...
Altoona City Council will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, May 22 to hear public comment regarding the proposed new City c...
Business leaders say Gov. Tom Corbett was right when he said Pennsylvania employers are having trouble finding prospective wo...
A newspaper says federal officials have accused Pennsylvania of "continued failure" in paying first-time unemployme...
The Department of Public Welfare has launched a broad, long-term initiative called “Mental Health Matters” to hel...
A section of Interstate 81 near Harrisburg is expected to remain closed in both directions for the next several days after a ...
Governor Tom Corbett has ordered all Pennsylvania flags lowered to half-staff immediately in honor of former Governor George ...
During an emotional State Capitol news conference, Pennsylvanians who are awaiting a life-saving organ transplant, who are al...
A university in eastern Pennsylvania has dropped its blanket prohibition on guns and will now allow people with concealed wea...
Hunting is safe and getting safer.That’s the conclusion of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s newly released repo...
Pennsylvania's attorney is blaming multiple defense motions for ongoing delays in the criminal case against three former ...
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is urging the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Highmark to come to a long-term a...
The state Supreme Court is upholding a revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania's legislative districts, rul...
Governor Tom Corbett and state Attorney General Kathleen Kane praised the bravery of police officers at a ceremony honoring t...
Advocates for Pennsylvania's Latino population say they'll challenge a federal court ruling involving the state's...
In case you weren’t aware, this is National Drinking Water Week.The DEP is encouraging all Pennsylvanians to learn how ...
Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a runner who collapsed and died during the half-marathon competition of the Pittsburg...
The Winds at Mattern Orchard Assisted Living Community has announced that it has been issued the first assisted living licens...
Don’t let choosing the wrong limo company be a bump in the road for your wedding or prom.The Pennsylvania Public Utilit...
Proposals to change how Penn State is governed are headed to the school's full Board of Trustees.The changes would includ...
Pennsylvania court officials say the number of abused and neglected children living in foster homes is declining because of s...
Pennsylvania's state tax collections are running a surplus, but not as big as Governor Tom Corbett had hoped.April revenu...
A new ethics filing by Governor Tom Corbett reports he accepted travel subsidies worth more than $18,000 last year, inclu...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has established the state’s second Disease Management Area in parts of four counties i...
Fewer and fewer Pennsylvania school districts are seeking approval to raise property taxes beyond a state-imposed inflation i...
The director of a nonprofit organization that fights substance abuse is broadly criticizing efforts in Harrisburg to liberali...
Insurance giant Highmark has conditional approval from Pennsylvania's state insurance regulators for its takeover of the ...
Pennsylvania's ranking state senator is warning that the nearing June 30th end of the fiscal year doesn't bode well f...
A Pennsylvania congressman has unveiled new airline safety legislation that would require planes to have secondary barriers p...
A jury in Philadelphia is set to start weighing murder charges against a veteran abortion provider charged with killing four ...
A judge has denied a request to immediately stop a plan by Governor Tom Corbett's administration to close nearly half of ...
In Pennsylvania’s latest effort to bolster highway safety, nine state troopers and eight municipal police officers have...
The Department of Public Welfare is offering $200,000 in mini-grants to child care centers to work toward achieving highe...
Penn State says the number of applications for undergraduate enrollment is down about 9-percent this year. There were nearly ...
A Marine veteran says he plans to run against freshman U.S. Representative Keith Rothfus in next year's Republican primar...
The American Lung Association says that air quality in parts of Pennsylvania is getting better, but there's still plenty ...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers are moving quickly to reverse a recent court decision that threw out a law letting counties elim...
A Pennsylvania appellate court is siding with The Associated Press in a battle over public access to Governor Tom Corbett'...
Governor Tom Corbett has appointed 17 members to the Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s Disease State Planning Committee.Establis...
Forecasters say the sudden cold snap that hit Pennsylvania over the weekend was a little late but not unprecedented.Aaron Tyb...
Pennsylvania voters will be going to the polls a month from now to settle nomination battles over an open seat on the state a...
A state lawmaker wants every school in the commonwealth required to stock pre-filled injections designed to treat severe alle...
A bill quietly circulating in the state Legislature would change Pennsylvania's constitution to allow state lawmakers rat...
Wind energy installations almost doubled in Pennsylvania last year, but the industry still provides only about 1 percent of t...
Pennsylvania residents are being urged to be diligent when weighing offers for electricity from door-to-door and telephone so...
Pennsylvania Department of State officials are warning residents to beware of phony charities asking for donations to help vi...
Pennsylvania's high court says older people increasingly face abuse and other issues that involve the legal system, so th...
A bill to allow Pennsylvanians to register online to vote is on its way to the House of Representatives. Wednesday's vote...
Companies that want to convert larger vehicles to natural gas may soon be getting some help from the state of Pennsylvania in...
Conservative state lawmakers who are wary about plans to raise taxes or fees to boost Pennsylvania's transportation spend...
Pennsylvania's Senate Transportation Committee chairman wants to boost spending on highways and mass transit by almost 50...
A Pennsylvania judge is allowing a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State to go forward.The suit was filed i...
Pennsylvania's state government websites are back online after being dark for nearly three hours, but the tax-day outage ...
With April marking National Donate Life Month, PennDOT today reminded driver’s license and identification card holders ...
State lawmakers have approved a measure that would allow crime victims to address Pennsylvania's parole board directly wh...
A bill to create a commission to help develop a new formula to distribute special education money to school districts in Penn...
As health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket…so does the net worth of one of Pennsylvania’s biggest medica...
Governor Tom Corbett is leading a team that's promoting Pennsylvania in Brazil, hoping to spur tourism and trade in one o...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers are joining a newly formed government reform caucus and hoping that its bipartisan membership an...
U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz is kicking off her 2014 campaign for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania governor.The 64-ye...
A bill to give Pennsylvania prosecutors administrative subpoena power in child abuse investigations is on its way to the Sena...
A Pennsylvania state judge says county jury commissioner races won't appear on the spring primary ballot, but instead can...
As schools across Pennsylvania begin administering annual standardized tests this week, there is growing debate about the opp...
Governor Tom Corbett has named Michael Wolf as Secretary of the Department of Health.Wolf will oversee the regulation of Penn...
An impact fee from drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania generated $198-million in 2012, about the same it raised the ...
Millionaire business executive Tom Knox says he won't run for Pennsylvania governor.In recent weeks, other Democrats have...
A state judge is promising to rule within days about how the office of jury commissioner should be handled in this year's...
The Department of Community and Economic Development has announced changes to the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) p...
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says he now supports gay marriage, becoming the latest lawmaker to change positions on an issue now befor...
Governor Tom Corbett's meeting with U.S. Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on whether he'll seek an expans...
There were 1,310 people killed in crashes on Pennsylvania roads last year, the third-lowest number on record and 24 more than...
A little known and little understood proposed change in how benefits are calculated could impact the bottom line of seniors, ...
The Department of Environmental Protection’s next “DEP at Home” webinar, Watch your Waste, will be on Wedne...
Pennsylvania's breweries and beer distributors are worrying about how lawmakers may liberalize the system of selling beer...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is taking a case that will determine if the justices, or any Pennsylvania judges, can serve on...
The state Insurance Department says a workers' compensation insurance rate reduction will go into effect next week for em...
A health care advocacy group says nearly 900,000 Pennsylvania adults and children would become eligible for the federal gover...
Pennsylvania has launched one of the nation’s first adoption mobile websites, providing easier access for those looking...
Legislation that would eliminate automatic cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for various public officials has been introd...
A Pennsylvania lawmaker is questioning why Gov. Tom Corbett's administration awarded a no-bid contract to a firm to manag...
An Ohio prosecutor who has light-heartedly filed charges against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog who fraudulently "pre...
The February employment statistics released Friday by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry indicate that the state...
The cost and quality of charter schools is dominating the public education debate in Pennsylvania.At least a dozen major bill...
Finally some good employment news for Blair County.Marcellus GTL has announced it will establish a natural gas to liquids fac...
Local State Representative John McGinnis last night cast one of the votes in favor of advancing liquor privatization legislat...
Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary C. Alan Walker announced today the award of a $519,000 ...
The House has passed legislation to privatize alcohol sales in Pennsylvania, getting the Commonwealth out of the business of ...
The board that oversees Pennsylvania's state-owned universities has given the green light to new contracts for thousands ...
An effort to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to clarify that lawmakers may decide what kinds of institutions qualify as c...
The Blair County Commissioners have voted to sell Valley View Nursing Home.Reliant Senior Care of Philadelphia submitted the ...
How healthy you are is strongly linked to where in Pennsylvania you live, according to the results of a new county-by-county ...
Pennsylvanians to register online to vote has the unanimous approval of a key legislative committee.The Senate State Governme...
Former Pennsylvania environmental protection secretary Kathleen McGinty says she's seriously considering running for gove...
Pennsylvania's acting secretary of the Department of Public Welfare says the state can't afford a legislative proposa...
Three former Pennsylvania governors renewed a call to state lawmakers to allow voters to decide whether appellate court judge...
Governor Tom Corbett and his legal staff are hoping fine distinctions in Pennsylvania case law will allow $12-billion in ...
Each day, 300 million gallons of polluted mine water enters Pennsylvania streams and rivers, turning many of them into dead z...
New federal data shows that 40 Pennsylvania counties had more deaths than births from 2010 to 2012, but in some of those immi...
Governor Tom Corbett is asking a federal court to dismiss an NCAA lawsuit aimed at overturning a Pennsylvania law that calls ...
Pennsylvania's new auditor general says improper payments to charter schools may have cost state taxpayers millions of do...
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, PennDOT is urging motorists to avoid driving under the influence (DUI) and advising...
According to a top law maker, Gov. Tom Corbett plans to ask Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office to reverse its reject...
A newspaper says nearly 5,000 people on Pennsylvania's state payroll earned at least $100,000 last year, and more tha...
The Department of Public Welfare and the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency will use $5.7 million in federal rental assi...
The number of eligible people who were purged from Pennsylvania's Medicaid rolls amid Gov. Tom Corbett's administrati...
The U.S. Federal Reserve's latest survey of regional economic trends is mentioning the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom i...
On Monday, State Senator John Eichelberger announced his plan to introduce legislation to safeguard the protections contained...
Governor Tom Corbett wants to close nearly half of Pennsylvania's 60 health centers and lay off some nurses as part of an...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has confirmed three hunter-killed deer taken in the 2012 general firearms deer season have t...
Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz says she'll set up a state fundraising committee as the first step toward a likely 2014 ca...
State lawmakers, spurred by a rise in prescription drug overdose deaths, are considering a monitoring effort aimed at prevent...
PennDOT has announced Pennsylvania’s first-ever Transportation Performance Report, a detailed rating of the state&rsquo...
Advocacy groups met with Governor Tom Corbett in Philadelphia on Thursday to announce his 2013-14 budget proposal to increase...
Lt. Governor Jim Cawley on Wednesday stopped by a Sheetz in Altoona, the only Sheetz that can sell beer in Pennsylvania. Cawl...
Governor Tom Corbett says he and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will meet to discuss issues surro...
With the approach of spring and increased risk of forest and brush fires across the state, federal grants are now available t...
The Altoona Regional Health System says it is moving forward with a proposed affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh Me...
Members of the state Liquor Control Board are making their case for preserving the more than 600 state stores that sell wine ...
About 50 more people have come forward to say they were sexually abused at Catholic schools in Pennsylvania and Ohio by a Fra...
The Obama administration says automatic spending cuts set to take effect this week would mean less money for Pennsylvania'...
Pennsylvania's new attorney general wound up in the middle of a discussion about gun control Thursday at what was suppose...
A member of Pennsylvania's highest court was convicted Thursday of corrupting the election process in her campaigns to wi...
Smithfield Packing Co. is recalling about 38,000 pounds of pork sausage that may contain small pieces of plastic, likely from...
If you think gas prices are high enough already – brace yourself for even steeper increases.AAA says Pennsylvania is ex...
Penn State has selected executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to help the school find a replacement for university president...
The NCAA is challenging a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky s...
A new Pennsylvania state law requires that items to be recycled such as computers, televisions, microwaves, pretty much anyth...
County officials said Tuesday they will take steps to refresh voters' understanding of Pennsylvania's fractured elect...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Thursday rejected a contract sought by Governor Tom Corbett that would let a B...
Pennsylvania's voter identification law won't be enforced in the state's May 21 primary. Lawyers in a pending law...
Yesterday wasn’t just Valentine's Day. It was also National Donor Day. A day set aside to encourage blood, marrow, ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced today that Walmart is the newest retailer in the state to offer E-ZPass transp...
A Pennsylvania court must decide if the governor's office is required to give certain documents to a state open-records a...
Governor Tom Corbett,members of the General Assembly, along with education and business leaders, met this week to discuss rei...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission says more than two-million electric customers are now benefiting from lower rates ...
The family of Joe Paterno released its response to Penn State's report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal Sunday, attacking Lo...
The National Park Service says a record number of people visited the Flight 93 Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania last yea...
High school students from across the state will compete for a chance to represent their region at Pennsylvania’s State ...
Gov. Tom Corbett has signed an Executive Order establishing the Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s Disease State Planning Committ...
A bill to require exploitation-awareness programs in Pennsylvania public schools has been approved by the state House of Repr...
Governor Tom Corbett says overhauling Pennsylvania's pension systems for state workers and school employees is the single...
Pennsylvanians can display their support for military veterans with a new specialized license plate authorized by a state law...
Governor Tom Corbett’s 2013-14 budget will set aside nearly $20 million to provide home and community-based service...
Negotiators for Pennsylvania's state-owned university system and the union representing about 5,500 faculty members say t...
Governor Tom Corbett has announced that the proposed 2013-14 budget will maintain funding levels for state and state-related ...
Penn State Altoona Benefiting THON will hold its second annual Family Carnival SundayThe community is invited to join in the ...
The state Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) celebrated its 20th year of providing coverage this week by announcing th...
Governor Tom Corbett, joined by Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, Wednesday announced his plan to privatize the liquor system in...
At yesterday’s ribbon cutting ceremony at the 79th district office of state representative John McGinnis we had a chanc...
As part of recent upgrades to its website, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) created PAGasSwitch, a natural ga...
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says a pilot program designed to prevent criminals from becoming managers of a person's Social Securi...
Former State Rep. Rick Geist of Altoona lost to John McGinnis in last April's primary election but thanks to travel per d...
PennDOT is now accepting applications for summer employment for students and government services interns.Rep. Mike Fleck of H...
Hunting Equipment retailer Cabela’s Inc. will not be taking part in what has been billed as Pennsylvania’s larges...
The Department of Environmental Protection is reminding Blair County residents that January is National Radon Action Month.DE...
The NCAA said Thursday it has no immediate plans to spend the $12 million already paid to it as part of the sanctions aga...
The name Rick Geist can be found at #5 on the House Top 10 Per Diem Recipients for 2011-12.That’s according to informat...
As the school year reaches the mid-point, motorists are reminded to not be complacent when they see a school bus with flashin...
Some 1,300 Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers and airmen will join a team of 6,000 National Guard members to provide securi...
State Rep. John McGinnis has announced that he has been appointed by Speaker of the House Sam Smith to serve on the House Agi...
If you don't gamble on Pennsylvania Lottery games, the British company that's poised to take over management of the &...
A trio of Democrats will be sworn in to Pennsylvania's three statewide row offices this week, heralding a new political d...
A new smartphone application has been developed to help the Pennsylvania State Police receive reports regarding suspicious ac...
Flu cases are mounting in Pennsylvania, and 22 deaths have been attributed to the illness, state health officials said.The nu...
Home care workers for the disabled in Pennsylvania claim that there’s been an interruption in their pay.The Associated ...
Newly elected State Representative 79th District John McGinnis was in attendance at last night’s Altoona City Council m...
State Senator John Eichelberger held a press conference on Tuesday to issue his annual report.Speaking from his office in Hol...
Pennsylvania's elected fiscal watchdog said Tuesday that the turnpike commission lost about $109 million in interest ...
Employees of the Pennsylvania Lottery said Tuesday they can beat a profit projection offered by a British firm seeking to man...
The Pennsylvania Health Department has a new initiative to educate the public about sudden cardiac arrest.Yesterday the Penns...
Applications for Police Officer for the City of Altoona may be obtained from the Personnel Office at City Hall, 1301 – ...
The Department of Health will offer free influenza vaccines at the 2013 Pennsylvania Farm Show, Jan. 5-11 from 8:30 a.m. to 4...
Pennsylvania's attorney general says she granted Gov. Tom Corbett the authority to file a federal antitrust lawsuit again...
A judge is allowing former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to leave his state prison cell in order to appear next w...
Pennsylvania higher education officials are heading back to the negotiating table with the union representing state universit...
A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter was unveiled today at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, paying tribute to Penns...
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey is now serving on Senate Finance Committee. Yesterday the Republican Senator of Pennsylvania announce...
Governor Tom Corbett announced Wednesday that he is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), calling its sa...
The NCAA says it's disappointed that Pennsylvania's governor is suing the college athletics organization over its dec...
Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls are scheduled to go up this weekend.The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said Wednesday most cash...
The state Department of Revenue is reporting that half-way through the fiscal year, Pennsylvania's tax collections are ru...
As part of its comprehensive approach to health and wellness, the Altoona Regional Health System is now completely tobacco fr...
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is offering support to those struggling to heat their home this winter.Crisis g...
A potential deal to privatize management of the Pennsylvania Lottery was put off for an additional 10 days on Monday after Go...
The phrase "Out with the old, in with the new" takes on a whole new meaning when the topic is electronic gear. A ne...
Today is the deadline for older adults and people with disabilities to apply for rebates of up to $975 from Pennsylvania&...
A Pennsylvania state senator began seeking Senate support on Thursday to create a gun violence prevention task force in the w...
Eighteen of Pennsylvania’s state parks will sponsor free, guided hikes on New Year’s Day to help visitors ring in...
Friends and family of 38 year old William Rhodes Jr. and 60 year old Kenneth Lynn will be received from 1 to 3 and 5 to 8 p.m...
Some Pennsylvania advocates of legalizing marijuana say citizen votes to do so in Washington and Colorado could help their ca...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission recently released the results of its annual Cold Weather Survey, which showed that...
This is a critical off-season for Penn State, even if the Nittany Lions don't have a bowl from which to build on for the ...
Funeral arrangements have been made for the three victims of the devastating events of Friday in Frankstown Township.There wi...
Even before 2012 is over, state Senate Republican leader Dominic Pileggi is already advocating changes in the way Pennsylvani...
The number of Pennsylvania’s unemployed decreased by 16,000 in November, the largest decline since 1983 and the second ...
As the clock ticks on a bid to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery, a new report says the deal is a bad one for the state and ...
A Pennsylvania judge is denying Penn State's request to put on hold former assistant football coach Mike McQueary's l...
Pennsylvania's labor secretary says calls to the state's unemployment compensation service centers have mysteriously ...
The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) is reminding high school students and their families about the av...
Pennsylvania gambling regulators say gross revenue from table games at the state's 11 casinos was up 3.4% last month comp...
Pennsylvania's presidential electors have cast all 20 of their ballots for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe ...
Acting Secretary of Health Michael Wolf says if you decided to wait, now is the perfect time to get vaccinated against the fl...
Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities and the union representing their athletic coaches have reached tentative contr...
Some Pennsylvania groups say cyber charter schools in the state aren't making the grade, and they're urging state edu...
Pennsylvania residents are asked once again to display a blue light in their home or office window during the holiday season ...
On Thursday, a celebration was held for students, staff, parents, and community members at Juniata Elementary.The school was ...
A number of area Police Departments have been honored for their safety efforts.Pennsylvania State Police Troop G Hollidaysbur...
A summer trial appears likely on a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's new voter identification law.At a meeting w...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says his state won't set up its own health care exchange under the federal Affordable C...
Lawyers on opposite sides of Pennsylvania's voter-identification law are slated to meet with a Commonwealth Court judge t...
State health officials said Tuesday that the number of flu cases reported to the Health Department more than doubled in the p...
The sponsor of a new Pennsylvania law increasing maximum fines for underage drinking says he'll seek an additional financ...
A rally is scheduled for this afternoon in Altoona focusing on “Jobs Not Cuts.”Constituents, including community ...
Gov. Tom Corbett promised Saturday to back a comprehensive plan early next year dealing with transportation funding. Industry...
Pennsylvania doctors are getting some good news when they attempt to renew their 2-year state licenses.A spokesman for the De...
Medical professionals in Pennsylvania are gearing up for the possibility of a bad year for flu sufferers.The federal Centers ...
A cancer treatment program based at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington, D.C. has been named for lat...
Pennsylvania's 2013 teacher of the year is about to be revealed.State Education Secretary Ron Tomalis is scheduled to mak...
A new study says Pennsylvania had among the highest percentages of teen employment last year compared with other states.Howev...
State Senate Republican leader Dominic Pileggi is renewing his call for Pennsylvania to change the way it counts its electora...
Gov. Tom Corbett says that uncapping an oil tax on the wholesale price of gasoline is something he might consider as Pennsylv...
Altoona Area High School Counseling Department will host a free Financial Aid Night Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in the school’...
The Department of Environmental Protection has announced that is accepting applications for its Natural Gas Vehicle Grant pro...
With a new fishing season just around the corner, anglers can ready themselves for years to come by purchasing a multi-year f...
Republican Rep. Mike Fleck told The Daily News of Huntingdon County that his personal journey has been a long and difficult p...
In the spirit of the holiday shopping season, the PennsylvaniaDepartment of General Services will offer more than 470 vehicle...
The Tyrone Area School District is being awarded $10,000 through a grant from the America’s Farmers Grow Rural Educ...
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, has been named the new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.The House Re...
The Altoona Regional Health System’s Radiation Oncology Department has been selected by the American Cancer Society for...
The union representing faculty at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities says it won't consider striking until ne...
Thirteen people were killed in crashes investigated by state troopers during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday driving period...
John Hanger is about to become the first person to announce his candidacy for governor in 2014.The former Pennsylvania enviro...
Awinter storm today could bring the first significant snowfalls of the season to much of Pennsylvania.Accuweather Meteorologi...
Hunters in Pennsylvania are being asked to donate deer meat to the “Hunters Sharing the Harvest’’ program, ...
Following the Democratic sweep at the top of Pennsylvania's ballot this past election three prospective candidates are al...
A federal judge has dropped one of eight counts against a retired northeastern Pennsylvania lawmaker charged in a corruption ...
Federal education officials have rejected the state’s request to measure charter school achievement using more lenient ...
As people head out to deer camps or cabins this weekend, they may want to take some precautions to safeguard themselves again...
The Department of Revenue says that holiday gatherings are a great opportunity to remind older friends and relatives about Pe...
Pennsylvania ranks 8th in cooking related fires on Thanksgiving according to newly released data from a leading nationwide in...
The four day bear hunting period began on Saturday and results from the first day of Pennsylvania's bear harvest are bein...
Governor Tom Corbett is focusing on the second half of his term.During a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon on Monday, the Repu...
Pennsylvania's jobless rate is down for the first time in six months.The state Department of Labor and Industry reports t...
Today is the deadline for Gov. Tom Corbett to tell the federal government whether Pennsylvania will be setting up a health in...
A panel including top Pennsylvania college officials is recommending setting up performance targets higher education institut...
It's "Get Smart About Antibiotics" Week, and doctors in Pennsylvania and across the nation are trying to get th...
Six Pennsylvania judges are suing over the state's mandatory retirement age of 70 for judges.The judges filed the legal c...
Altoona Regional Health System and Nason Hospital continue discussions aimed at developing an integrated, countywide health s...
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster is aiming to become the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.Shuster sent...
PennDOT is launching two voluntary programs aimed at saving the lives of Pennsylvanians in emergency situations – the Y...
Pennsylvania residents solicited for donations to charities that claim to help military veterans or victims of Hurricane Sand...
Governor Tom Corbett will lead a delegation of Pennsylvania business, tourism and university leaders on a business developmen...
Governor Tom Corbett has called the pension crisis in Pennsylvania “a tapeworm” to the state budget.Appearing on ...
The Department of Public Welfare has unveiled a statewide mentorship pilot program that will help troubled teens from the Nor...
Democratic President Barack Obama has defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania and won the state’s 20 el...
Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has won re-election to a second term.Casey capitalized on high name recogni...
Political rookie Kathleen Kane has been elected the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania attorney genera...
Democratic incumbent Rob McCord has been elected to a second four-year term as Pennsylvania state treasurer.Republican Diana ...
Pennsylvania lawmakers will launch a new session in Harrisburg next year with both chambers remaining under Republican majori...
Republican challenger Keith Rothfus unseated Congressman Mark Critz in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District in Tues...
After a presidential campaign distinguished more by sporadic TV commercials than candidate visits to the state, Pennsylvania ...
A union representing thousands of faculty members and coaches at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities has scheduled...
Pennsylvania students perform better on state reading and writing tests when their schools have full time librarians and libr...
In the wake of last week’s storm, homeowners may have questions about what damages are covered by insurance.While each ...
Officials say they expect next Tuesday's election to proceed without significant problems in Pennsylvania, as crews focus...
PennDOT is extending expiration dates for Pennsylvania driver licenses, identification cards and vehicle inspections/registra...
Pennsylvania was battered by high winds but escaped major flooding from its heavy rains as a weakened Sandy churned across th...
A second straight day of effort by Valley Rural Electric line crews brought the number of power outages down more than half, ...
Sunday night Governor Tom Corbett gave an update on the state’s ongoing preparations in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy...
Gov. Tom Corbett declared a State of Emergency and urged Pennsylvanians on Friday to prepare for a potentially dangerous supe...
Gov. Tom Corbett has signed legislation that gives Pennsylvania judges options other than life in prison when sentencing juve...
Voters in Pennsylvania can now file complaints about alleged election law violations online.Once submitted, these complaint f...
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Pennsylvania’s higher education system.The credit rating agency says a rec...
Pennsylvania and Alaska have come in tied for the second worst state for retirees in list compiled by MoneyRates.com.The idea...
Pennsylvania public schools are less than nine months away from a mandate to implement common core standards but a poll of 60...
More than 100,000 Pennsylvania households who were booted from Medicaid amid a state effort to purge the program of waste wil...
Barnes & Noble Inc. said Tuesday that devices used by customers to swipe credit and debit cards have been tampered with in 63...
Recently some Altoona Area High School students and faculty representing several school programs participated in a Leadership...
Pennsylvania's jobless rate rose again for the fourth straight month in September.The State Department of Labor and Indus...
As cold weather approaches, the Department of Environmental Protection is urging homeowners to act now to save energy and mon...
The editorial boards of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Patriot-News of Harrisburg are endorsing Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Cas...
The Department of Public Welfare is encouraging Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) recipients to apply online...
The candidates running for Attorney General in Pennsylvania will face off in an hour long debate on this evening at Widener L...
With fall’s arrival, PennDOT is reminding motorists to use caution and be alert for seasonal travel hazards like sun gl...
There's been plenty of debate over the Marcellus Shale natural gas field, but new research adds a twist that could impact...
Attorneys have filed an appeal in connection with the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.Sandusky’s attorneys filed a 31-...
A closely watched proposal to rewrite the state's charter schools law died Wednesday when the House wrapped up its two-ye...
Pennsylvania students are reminded that Friday is the deadline to apply for the U.S. Senate Youth Program.Two students from e...
Major reforms to the state’s 15-year-old charter school law are on course to reach Gov. Tom Corbett’s desk by the...
Pennsylvania state agencies and local governments in places where drilling for natural gas is occurring learned Monday how mu...
PennDOT is stressing the importance of slowing down and avoiding distractions while traveling through work zones.Safety Press...
Governor Tom Corbett has ordered state flags be flown at half-staff to honor former Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday at th...
The 82-year-old Specter passed away Sunday at his home in Pennsylvania after a lengthy battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.Spec...
All week long special attention will be given to young drivers in Pennsylvania during Teen Driver Safety Week.Two significant...
Pennsylvania's public employee pension system is seeking to revoke Jerry Sandusky’s pension.The 68-year-old former ...
Gov. Tom Corbett says he hopes the long prison sentence imposed on Jerry Sandusky is a just reward for his victims' trust...
Pennsylvania’s Auditor General is calling upon the state General Assembly to crack down on tattoo parlors.Jack Wagner s...
A spreading plague is wiping out the nationwide bat population.Scientists say a fungus known as White Nose Syndrome has claim...
Tuesday is the final day to register to vote in the November 6th general election.Voters will cast ballots for candidates for...
Pennsylvania health officials say a Blair County pain clinic dispensed steroid shots linked to an outbreak of fungal meningit...
A man convicted of killing a state game warden during a poaching investigation has been sentenced to death.The Adams County j...
Authorities say a Pennsylvania deputy attorney general and his wife face assault and child endangerment charges related to tw...
Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Eli Avila, who was best known for getting into a dispute over an egg sandwich, stepped down...
Lawmakers approved more than $1 billion in new borrowing for Pennsylvania on Wednesday.The bulk of the money will go to p...
Pennsylvania is receiving federal dollars to grow business.The Small Business Administration recently presented the state wit...
Opponents of a new state law requiring voters to show photo identification at polling places on Election Day are calling it a...
A Judge has postponed Pennsylvania’s voter identification law ordering the state not to enforce it in the upcoming elec...
Skills of Central Pennsylvania is supporting House Resolution 837 which designates the month of October as “Lifesharing...
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by an organization that includes atheists and agnostics over a Pennsylvania Ho...
Pennsylvania voters claiming to have been disenfranchised by a new voter identification law testified Thursday before the jud...
Governor Tom Corbett ceremonially signed a bill Wednesday that authorizes public private partnerships (P3) for transportation...
The overall number of crimes in Pennsylvania reported to the Pennsylvania State Police through the Uniform Crime Reporting Sy...
Democrat Kathleen Kane holds a slim fundraising edge over Republican David Freed in the state attorney general race, accordin...
State lawmakers are hearing warning signs about the Pennsylvania Turnpike's debt load from the state's elected fiscal...
A hearing today in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg will be the latest chapter in a legal challenge to a 6-month-old law that...
The last of the 25 criminal cases resulting from Pennsylvania's 5-year-old legislative corruption investigation is about ...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers started the legislature's fall session Monday, after returning from summer recess.House Repu...
The top executive of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association is leaving later this year to become executive director of a ...
PennDOT is reminding motorists that fall weather patterns often produce foggy mornings, which can create dangerous driving co...
As a result of the statewide investigation of adults making changes to students’ answer sheets on the Pennsylvania Syst...
A court date has been set for Tuesday, at which a Commonwealth Court judge will hear from witnesses who say they've had t...
The major-party candidates for auditor general vowed Friday not to run for higher office while serving as the state governmen...
The major-party candidates for auditor general vowed Friday not to run for higher office while serving as the state governmen...
Pennsylvania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in August, up two-tenths of a percentage point fro...
PennDOT officials are lauding the efforts of the more than 141,000 volunteers who cleaned over 13,000 miles of roads, trails ...
An Altoona woman has been arrested on felony theft charges.Police say 45 year old Verna Barr, of 515 South Kettle Street stol...
The next legislative session in Harrisburg begins Monday.State Senator John Eichelberger, appearing as a guest on WRTA’...
The television attacks in Pennsylvania's race for U.S. Senate are becoming more strident as the election clock winds down...
Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court judge to stop a tough new law requiring voters to show photo i...
A Pennsylvania judge has scheduled Jerry Sandusky's sentencing for convictions of child sexual abuse on Oct. 9.Sandusky w...
Pennsylvania farmers rely heavily on the technical and financial assistance laid out in the Farm Bill.With some parts of the ...
Governor Tom Corbett has signed an executive order to establish a commission to examine and advocate for Pennsylvania’s...
In conjunction with a national initiative to promote Lifeline telephone discount program awareness, the Pennsylvania Public U...
State Police and PennDOT are encouraging motorists to participate in free child passenger safety seat checkups throughout Pen...
With three weeks left before Pennsylvania's first execution in 13 years, a bipartisan legislative task force studying the...
State Police and PennDOT are encouraging motorists to participate in free child passenger safety seat checkups throughout Pen...
The City of Altoona has received notification from H. A. Berkheimer, the company that will take over all the contracts curren...
The City of Altoona has received notification from H. A. Berkheimer, the company that will take over all the contracts curren...
Pennsylvania prosecutors are asking a judge for a hearing to determine if convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky should be d...
Local residents are reminded that the Pennsylvania 529 College Savings Program is available to help families cover the costs ...
Child pornography charges have been filed against a Tyrone man already in trouble with the law for allegedly growing psychede...
The post office near the site where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania is again offering...
A local school has been recognized as a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School.Juniata Elementary was one of five Pennsylvania elem...
If you use a cell phone or other hand-held device while you drive, you soon may be breaking the law in Pennsylvania.House App...
With the new school year under way, Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare Gary Alexander is reminding the public abou...
A Democratic lawmaker Thursday demanded that the Corbett administration pull a TV ad designed to educate Pennsylvania voters ...
With the Labor Day weekend in our rearview mirror, serious campaigning has begun for the race for the next State Representati...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky regrets not taking the stand at his child sex abuse trial and likel...
The Pennsylvania charity for troubled youths started by convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky has won court approval to delay it...
Pennsylvania collected $1.8 billion in General Fund revenue inAugust, which was $32.3 million, or 1.8 percent, less t...
A new report shows when it comes to earning power, the typical middle-class household in Pennsylvania isn't getting ahead...
State Treasurer Rob McCord recently marked a major milestone in Pennsylvania's nationally recognized Keystone Home Energy...
A new law is now in effect requiring 16 and 17 year olds seeking their motorcycle licenses to first complete Pennsylvania&rsq...
State and local police, along with PennDOT, will take part in a national enforcement effort through Labor Day on Sept. 3, tar...
When the last big weekend of the summer wraps up, the campaign season will hit high gear in anticipation of the November Elec...
A tractor trailer that caught fire at milepost 219 eastbound in Cumberland County this morning just before 4 a.m. has necessi...
The price of electricity is going down.Starting this Saturday the average Penelec customer will see a 4.2 percent reduction i...
The Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania on Monday compared the decision to abort an unwanted pregnancy resulting ...
Pennsylvania's university system is expected a second consecutive year of declining enrollment after more than a dozen ye...
Pennsylvanians concerned with the rising cost of higher education have a few days left to get the most out of their college s...
A federal judge who last spring struck down key provisions of Pennsylvania law governing funeral homes and undertakers, calli...
Environmentalists have made some waves for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett as he sets out on a two-day kayak tour of the upper ...
Average scores on the ACT college exam improved slightly for Pennsylvania's high school class of 2012 – but the sta...
The Democratic candidate for state attorney general says the Corbett administration is "playing politics" to impede...
Republican Paul Ryan is criticizing President Barack Obama for a remark the Democrat made four years ago about voters clingin...
The administration of Governor Tom Corbett is suggesting that a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry into Pennsylvania's to...
The administration of Governor Tom Corbett is suggesting that a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry into Pennsylvania's to...
When Pennsylvania released official data on Marcellus Shale natural gas production last week, there was no mention that numbe...
The city of Altoona is trying to decide what they will do about the collection of certain tax money now that a collection com...
Pennsylvania Democrats have chosen a southwestern Pennsylvania county commissioner to run for the state House seat vacated by...
A Northern California produce supplier said Sunday it is voluntarily recalling romaine lettuce that was shipped to 19 states,...
The sentencing hearing in former state Sen. Robert Mellow's corruption case is now scheduled for October.A federal judge ...
The state Department of Labor and Industry said in a report released on Thursday that the unemployment rate shot up to 7.9 pe...
The Pittsburgh Steelers say a western Pennsylvania man infringed on their "Terrible Towel" trademark by making knoc...
A court decision released Wednesday in Harrisburg upholds the new voter ID law that provides Pennsylvania election officials ...
Pennsylvania county officials say taxpayers have spent nearly $56,000 on the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial so far, most ...
The dispute over a northeast Pennsylvania city's attempt to crack down on illegal immigrants is back before a federal app...
A judge has ruled a western Pennsylvania bear hunter is competent to stand trial next month in the beating of a man who alleg...
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Tom Smith have begun airing their first TV ads attacking each other,...
A momentous anniversary will be celebrated today during a ceremony at Penn State's Ag Progress Days.University and govern...
Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele has announced enhancements to the state’s VotesPA.com website, and launchin...
The 44th annual Penn State's Ag Progress Days gets underway today.Officials say the purpose of the three day event is to ...
Critics say a new order from Gov. Tom Corbett will pressure state employees to more quickly approve environmental permits, in...
Pennsylvania Department of Health Executive Deputy Secretary Michael Wolf on Monday presented a Commonwealth Universal Resear...
Pennsylvania is one of 36 states involved in a recall of sliced apples sold at McDonald's and Burger King.The fruit may h...
Officials say Interstate 80 is open again in central Pennsylvania after a trailer hauling gunpowder and ammunition caught fir...
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ newly launched mobile website makes it easier for users of smartp...
More air pollution is coming from the smokestacks of coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania than in almost any other state in the ...
It turns out it takes half as much lead poisoning to cause problems for children than previously thought, prompting concern t...
The State Transportation Commission Thursday approved an update to Pennsylvania’s 12-Year Transportation Program, which...
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party told a state judge Wednesday that former House speaker Bill DeWeese should be removed from ...
Several Pennsylvania district attorneys are calling for funds from the $60-million in fines that Penn State must pay as p...
The union representing faculty members at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities has suspended negotiations with the ...
Three Blair County volunteer fire companies are getting some help from Harrisburg when it comes to battling forest fires.The ...
State health officials say Pennsylvania’s first human case of the 2012 West Nile Virus has been confirmed.The Departmen...
More than a million Pennsylvania women can count on their health insurance policies to cover a host of services under new pro...
The Marcellus Shale is about to become the most productive natural gas field in the United States, according to new data from...
Alternative energy could take a step forward in Pennsylvania after the US Senate Finance Committee voted late last week to re...
A new poll finds significant opposition among Pennsylvania residents to NCAA sanctions leveled against Penn State.Forty-four ...
The one thing both sides agreed on as a hearing on Pennsylvania's new voter-identification law ended is that each will ap...
Colleges in Pennsylvania are working to ensure students can use their campus IDs to cast ballots this fall if the state's...
State Representative Scott Conklin says he will introduce a bill in Harrisburg that will fundamentally change the way Penn St...
A judge from outside the State College area is now handling a request by the children's charity that Jerry Sandusky found...
A leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the implementation of Pennsylvania's new ...
The Pennsylvania Lottery has posted a record year, spurred on by scratch-offs and record jackpots in big-ticket drawings like...
Meteorologists have confirmed a tornado touched down in northern Pennsylvania during powerful storms that knocked out power t...
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley was in Blair County on Thursday.Cawley toured the New Pig manufacturing facility,...
Wright Elementary School has made the state Education Department’s list of Pennsylvania's lowest-achieving schools....
The first legal test for Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law began Wednesday, with state lawyers calling th...
The state Education Department has published a list of Pennsylvania's lowest-achieving schools – and an Altoona ele...
The first legal test for Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law began Wednesday, with state lawyers calling th...
A Capitol rally against Pennsylvania's new voter ID law ended peacefully Tuesday, but not before it spilled over into a n...
The Department of Justice is looking at whether Pennsylvania's tough new voter law requiring photo identification complie...
State Senator John Eichelberger will be host a town hall meeting in Blair County this week.Town hall meetings are open to the...
A little more than five months left and counting – and the ticker is headed down for jobs while time passes.That’...
Stifling heat and oppressive humidity have been in the forecast as often as not so far this summer in Pennsylvania.Dr. Amanda...
Governor Tom Corbett says he's still reading through the report that accuses top Penn State administrators of covering up...
Governor Tom Corbett says he's still reading through the report that accuses top Penn State administrators of covering up...
Hiring in Pennsylvania is on the rise, but overall employment remained relatively stagnant for a fourth straight month.The st...
Lawyers in a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law says at least 1-million Pennsylvania v...
An Altoona woman will spend some time behind bars after settling her welfare fraud case with Pennsylvania’s Office of I...
Hazy, hot and humid will continue to describe much of Pennsylvania's weather, at least for the next few days.Heat warning...
In a year in which voters are relatively unenthusiastic about the November 6th presidential election, there are a half-millio...
The New York-based credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has slapped a lower rating on Pennsylvania's debt ...
Governor Tom Corbett recently signed into law House Bill 1307, legislation designed to help financially distressed school dis...
Republican leaders in the House voted last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, saying it's not good for the country.E...
Pennsylvania's top prosecutor says the newly issued report into how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestati...
State officials are planning a trial smoking ban next year in two Pennsylvania state parks as they deal with complaints about...
The federal government is asking why Pennsylvania's Medicaid rolls dropped over the past year, and is suggesting that som...
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments during its September session on at least 10 challenges to the latest attempt to r...
Students and their families will pay about 3-percent more for tuition and technology fees at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owne...
A Pennsylvania government webpage that carries outdated information on voters' photo ID requirements apparently lives on ...
Officials say the scorching heat wave that pushed temperatures into triple digits claimed the lives of three more elderly peo...
Officials say a man plunged to his death while skydiving in central Pennsylvania over the weekend.Mifflin County Coroner Dani...
On the heals of the hottest weather of the year in Blair County over the weekend, a dermatologist is issuing a warning to tho...
Hold the phone! Robocall season is under way in Pennsylvania, along with election season. Political robocalls are exempted fr...
Blair County officials are still waiting to see how much they will receive in funding for social services programs.But Commis...
A six-day celebration is planned to mark the 10th anniversary of the rescue of nine miners trapped underground in the Quecree...
Pennsylvania taxpayers are facing higher payouts for prescription and dental benefits for House and Senate lawmakers.These sa...
The vast majority of registered voters in Pennsylvania have identification that can be used for voting, according to a recent...
Legislation that will permit expert testimony in court regarding sexual assault victims has been ceremonially signed into law...
Joe Paterno's family is calling on the Pennsylvania attorney general and former FBI Director Louis Freeh to release all e...
PennDOT and the Pennsylvania DUI Association are pushing for a safe and sober Fourth of July holiday.That was association spo...
Pennsylvania has removed millions of public records from a state court system website, and while some say that's a troubl...
On Saturday, just minutes before the deadline, Governor Tom Corbett signed the 2012-13 budget.The $27.66 billion budget w...
Over the weekend, hundreds of people attended the annual Blair County Tea Party Freedom Fest.The event held on Sunday at Legi...
As residents swelter through summer time heat here in Pennsylvania, air quality can become an issue for some people.According...
Pennsylvania parents who have seen the YouTube video of seventh-grade boys harassing a 68-year-old school bus monitor may won...
A bill to expand the use of red light cameras to catch traffic violators in Pennsylvania is on its way to the governor's ...
A Republican-crafted spending plan for Pennsylvania's state government is one big step closer to becoming law.Thursday...
Ninth District Congressman Bill Shuster is calling the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling upholding President Barack Obama&rsqu...
Governor Tom Corbett isn't saying anything yet about the decision he faces on whether to expand Pennsylvania's Medica...
State and local police, along with PennDOT, are taking part in a national enforcement effort through July 8th targeting motor...
Democrats are criticizing a $27.7-billion Pennsylvania state spending plan written by majority Republicans as a gift to b...
Pennsylvania's public employee pension system says it won't be able to say if Jerry Sandusky will lose his retirement...
A bill on its way to Governor Tom Corbett would allow certain decorated Pennsylvania veterans to tout their military medals o...
Pennsylvania's House of Representatives is signaling support for a plan to widen the scope of evaluations for teachers an...
Lawmakers and staff in Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled state Legislature are scrambling to finish writing a host of ...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says the pace of the investigation into Jerry Sandusky's child sex crimes was necessary...
The state lawmaker who's sponsoring a proposed voucher-like tax credit aimed at helping students flee from Pennsylvania&#...
A bill that would reshape Pennsylvania's corrections system to give a second chance to more nonviolent offenders and rese...
Opponents of an attempted crackdown on illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania say a new Supreme Court ruling bolsters their case....
Democrats are pouncing on a Republican lawmaker's statement that Pennsylvania's new voter identification law will all...
Ed Rendell will appear in court on behalf of a former top state House Democrat who is fighting charges that he illegally dive...
On average, one person dies in America every 40 seconds from a stroke. The Pennsylvania Department of Health says that in 201...
Jerry Sandusky has been led away in handcuffs from a Pennsylvania courthouse after being convicted of molesting 10 boys over ...
More money for private school scholarships and education nonprofits in Pennsylvania will be part of a nearly $27.7-billio...
Governor Tom Corbett says he and top Republican state lawmakers have an agreement on a nearly $27.7-billion spending plan...
A bill to require contractors on public construction projects in Pennsylvania to verify the Social Security numbers of their ...
State Auditor General Jack Wagner stepped up his criticism of the way Pennsylvania finances charter and cyber-charter schools...
A Republican-penned bill that would pave the way for state takeovers of Pennsylvania school districts veering toward financia...
The Legislature's leading advocate of privatizing liquor and wine sales in Pennsylvania has thrown in the towel, at least...
Former Pittsburgh-area state Senator Jane Orie's request to be released on bail while appealing her conviction on campaig...
Pennsylvania state officials say they expect most of the state's abortion clinics will remain open under a tougher law de...
Testimony is about to begin in what may be the final trial spawned by the Pennsylvania attorney general's investigation i...
Low-income older adults and Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program participants can now use vouchers to purchase fresh, loc...
The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania held steady last month even as the U.S. jobless rate rose slightly.The state Department...
As Pennsylvania's public schools prepare to lay off thousands of employees for a second straight year, teachers and publi...
A bill to overhaul Pennsylvania's wiretapping law has the approval of the state House of Representatives.Wednesday's ...
Pennsylvania state government now has the authority to make one of its largest, if not its largest, bond issues ever as it lo...
A bill that would reshuffle Pennsylvania's prison system to save money by reserving state prisons for the most dangerous ...
A statewide survey shows voters support Pennsylvania's new photo-ID requirement by a 2-1 margin.The Quinnipiac University...
A Duncansville man is one of two people facing drug charges after narcotic agents’ confiscated bath salts and methadone...
Governor Tom Corbett is revealing little about his budget negotiations with lawmakers, while hoping to score some other victo...
The outcome of Jerry Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sex abuse on 10 alleged victims over a 15-year span won't...
Three Days to Opening Arguments in Sandusky Trial The attorneys arguing the child sexual abuse trial of former Penn State ass...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 102-90 to approve a bill to license and regulate "payday lending" i...
Pennsylvania's House of Representatives has sent to the governor a bill that would allow up to $4.5-billion in borrow...
Seven Commonwealth Court judges will decide on a constitutional challenge by seven municipalities to portions of Pennsylvania...
A $27.7-billion budget plan written by Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania state House and Senate would send more mone...
A major bill to pay off Pennsylvania's nearly $4-billion unemployment compensation debt to the federal government is ...
The deadline to apply for Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program for older adults and residents with disabilit...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers made their way back to Harrisburg for several more weeks of work to wrap up a new state budget a...
State gaming regulators say gross slots revenue at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos was up 3.4-percent last month compared to Ma...
The Centers for Disease Control is being urged to help Pennsylvania tackle the problem of Lyme disease as reports indicate th...
Legal experts say former Pittsburgh-area Republican state Sen. Jane Orie might wind up in prison on campaign corruption charg...
Even thought the week ahead will be on the cool side, temperatures will be on the rise again soon in Pennsylvania, and so wil...
The Department of Aging will hold public hearings this month across the state to discuss the 2012-2016 State Plan on Aging, w...
A state panel formulating a new framework for higher education in Pennsylvania will hear from more than a dozen stakeholders ...
A.C. Stickel will continue to lead local Republicans for the next two years.The Altoona City Controller fought off a spirited...
The Corbett administration says it found hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare benefits that went to people who do not ...
A new state-funded study says Pennsylvania should create an independent tourism commission and change the handling of county ...
Governor Tom Corbett is expected to meet with top party figures and supporters amid criticism of his administration just as a...
Faith-based and community aid organizations from across Pennsylvania are urging state lawmakers to undo plans to kill a Depre...
Thousands of people in Pennsylvania could die by the end of the century as a direct result of summer heat driven to extremes ...
Eight Pennsylvania colleges are getting grants as part of a $50 million national science initiative.The Howard Hughes Med...
The Altoona Area School District is getting $1.5-million from the federal government to strengthen its literacy program.P...
State officials say they're still trying to remove hurdles for people to get the kind of identification that's requir...
Governor Tom Corbett says he wants lawmakers to pass a plan to overhaul Pennsylvania's corrections system before they bre...
Pennsylvania's failure to update rules that govern funeral homes and undertakers could wind up burying taxpayers.A Harris...
State legislative leaders say there will be no "lame duck" session of Pennsylvania's General Assembly following...
Two education advocacy groups say a new survey shows that half of Pennsylvania's school districts expect their finances t...
A Republican-penned bill that would pave the way for state takeovers of Pennsylvania school districts veering toward financia...
State and local police departments are teaming up for a national “Click it or Ticket” seatbelt enforcement effort...
A Pennsylvania company will invest $380 million to expand natural gas pipelines in the state.Penn Virginia Resource Partn...
Saying the future of public schools in Pennsylvania is at stake, thousands of protesters are expected in Philadelphia, Pittsb...
A Blair County woman is among ten people to recently settle their welfare fraud claims with Pennsylvania’s Office of In...
The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania dropped slightly last month as more people found work, but the overall size of payrolls...
Get stuck or get out. That's what Pennsylvania school districts told students and their parents this year as they approac...
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack hopes to raise the profile of agricultural research at universities like Penn State as...
Pennsylvania prosecutors are asking for advance notice if Jerry Sandusky's defense lawyers plan to call any expert witnes...
A federal judge has struck down vast swaths of a 60-year-old law that governs Pennsylvania's funeral home industry.U.S. D...
A group of Pennsylvania voters is opposing a challenge to the state's voter ID law, saying their rights as voters would b...
A caravan of Penn State coaches paid a visit to Altoona on Monday – including new head football coach Bill O’Brie...
A new coalition says Pennsylvania must take steps to divert more criminals to programs outside of prison and to speed up the ...
A new coalition says Pennsylvania must take steps to divert more criminals to programs outside of prison and to speed up the ...
Former state House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese has begun his 2 1/2-to-five-year prison term for corruption.Officials at Da...
Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary C. Alan Walker on Friday filed a petition with the Commonwealth Co...
The Department of Public Welfare has released the 2011 Annual Child Abuse Report, which offers statistics on child abuse case...
The State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously voted to consider amending several regulations regarding high school gra...
Wanting to set the record straight, the Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania says it wasn’t money from Philadelphia that h...
Pennsylvania’s top economic and development official said Thursday that the City of Altoona has a “good chance&rd...
A Chevron representative told Logan Township officials Thursday night that her company has no immediate plans to begin gas dr...
Blair County’s newest industrial manufacturer has officially opened its doors.State and local development officials gat...
A new government report indicates that only about a third of Pennsylvania's eighth-graders are proficient in science.Resu...
The Republican candidate for State Attorney General stumped in Blair County on Wednesday.David Freed is currently Cumberland ...
The head of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development will make a stop in Blair County today.Secr...
A new report shows Pennsylvania pulled in more than $3-billion in gross casino revenue last year, an increase of more tha...
President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage may become an issue for voters to sort through in Pennsylvania, a vote-...
Pennsylvania is now the most populous state that is refusing to comply with the federal Real ID Act.Governor Tom Corbett on W...
Sandusky Accuser's Name Posted Online by PA Attorney General A prosecution document in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual ...
Rick Santorum has officially endorsed Mitt Romney's bid to unseat President Obama in the White House. "Politico repo...
Pennsylvania's universities, public schools, hospitals, nursing homes and people who depend on county-run social services...
Pennsylvania college students are urging federal lawmakers to strike a deal that will avert higher interest rates on student ...
Scores of citizen activists are staging a rally at Pennsylvania's Capitol to protest property taxes.The demonstrators at ...
Lawyer Says Sandusky Won't Attend Pretrial Hearing Jerry Sandusky's lawyer says the former Penn State defensive coord...
A coroner says a 24-year-old student at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been found dead in his dorm room.Indiana C...
More than $761 million in restitution is owed to Pennsylvania’s crime victims, and a newly-formed task force plans ...
Several Community Health Centers in Pennsylvania are getting nearly $7 million in federal grants to help build onto and r...
The U.S. Department of Labor has notified Pennsylvania that the state’s declining unemployment rate is too low to autho...
Pittsburgh-area Republican state Senator Jane Orie intends to resign by May 21st, but is asking the court to delay her senten...
Blair County election officials will meet today to wrap up last Tuesday’s primary election.Director Ingrid Healy-Tucker...
A proposal to cut business taxes and address the so-called "Delaware loophole" that opponents say permits corporati...
State lawmakers are among the 29 people who have signed up to share their thoughts on the latest set of maps for Pennsylvania...
A group of people who say they may be unable to vote because of Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law are sui...
A bill designed to limit the taxpayer cost of buyouts for public school superintendents in Pennsylvania and expose the terms ...
A Pennsylvania school district is asking the judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case to throw out a def...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that roughly 13% of 8-year-olds in Pennsylvania exhibit signs of Aut...
Pennsylvania is working with neighboring states to share information about violent or potentially violent offenders who move ...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) Thursday voted to dismiss the relief plan and implementation schedule of the...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission wants answers from a court before it moves forward with its role in carrying out P...
The North American Hockey League has approved selling a junior league team in Alaska to an ownership group that plans to move...
Members of an advisory panel are hoping to see changes in how the Pennsylvania state government issues dog licenses, deals wi...
Penn State Altoona financial professor John McGinnis has unseated veteran State Representative Rick Geist to secure the GOP n...
5 incumbent PA State Lawmakers Lose Primaries Veteran Altoona State Representative Rick Geist wasn’t the only Pennsylva...
About 300 customers are still without power following a spring snow storm that brought heavy snow to some isolated areas of w...
Even though he's now been sentenced to prison for corruption, former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader Bill D...
Elections officials and political pundits say most of Pennsylvania’s seven million registered voters will likely not ca...
A congressman, the Philadelphia mayor and at least three state lawmakers are pledging to live on $35 worth of food for th...
Pennsylvania's voters will pick candidates to run for president, U.S. Senate, state attorney general and a slew of other ...
Voters in Blair County should expect to be asked for photo identification in Tuesday's primary election, but those withou...
A former aide to Representative Bill DeWeese has been sentenced to five years' probation in a corruption case.Dauphin Cou...
Parents have the power to stop underage drinking by talking with their children.That was the message delivered by Pennsylvani...
In the wake of the weekend’s celebrations of Earth Day, there is a new report from the National Wildlife Federation tha...
The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania dropped slightly last month as payrolls expanded by almost 8,000 jobs.The state Departm...
Pennsylvania's top health official has assured doctors that a new gas-drilling law will allow them to talk to their patie...
State officials say Pennsylvania voters now can use long-expired state driver's licenses or non-driver ID cards to obtain...
Voters in Blair County going to the polls for next Tuesday’s primary election will be asked to show their photo identif...
The campaign of GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney says it has the support of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett.Corbett...
The state is just coming off one of the wettest years on record, but professional weather-watchers are increasingly concerned...
State Representative Rick Geist is calling for action on transportation funding in Pennsylvania.Leaders of Pennsylvania busin...
Pennsylvania voters will be asked for photo identification at polling places in the April 24th primary election, but won'...
Mike Manzo, a key prosecution witness in the corruption case against former Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania's House of...
Altoona Regional Health System and the Center for Organ Recovery & Education will recognize National Organ Donor Awareness Mo...
A total of 550 vehicles will be available for public bid today.The Department of General Services will hold the one-day aucti...
Emphasizing the importance of safe digging during summer projects, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and Pennsylvani...
Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources says a controlled burn exercise will be held next week ...
Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is urging anglers and other woodland visitors to take t...
Pennsylvania's Democratic Party says U.S. Senator Bob Casey is just off his biggest fundraising quarter of the election c...
House Speaker Sam Smith says it's "outrageous" to assert that Pennsylvania's new Marcellus Shale law could ...
The James E. Van Zandt Medical Center in Altoona has a new director.William Mills was named to the position earlier this week...
Some Blair County taxpayers got a first-hand look at the major budget issues looming for state government.About 50 people att...
The head of the Pennsylvania Republican Party says Rick Santorum's short-lived presidential campaign helped create moment...
One of five contenders seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania paid a visit to our region on Tuesda...
Rick Santorum's decision to drop out of the GOP nomination race is drawing a positive reaction from Republican leaders in...
A state judge will hear a request for an immediate injunction against Pennsylvania's new Marcellus Shale law filed by a g...
As Pennsylvania’s April 17 personal income tax filing deadline fast approaches, Department of Revenue Secretary Dan Meu...
A man will spend the next 6 1/2 to 13 years in prison for breaking another man's jaw with a baseball bat during a road ra...
Rick Santorum plans no campaign events today and will spend time with his wife and ailing daughter Bella.Campaign spokesman H...
Senator John Eichelberger will host a live screening and discussion of the recently released mini-documentary, "The Four...
A Pennsylvania marine veteran is on a mission to create a nation “Brother to Brother Day” and he’s travelin...
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney predicted Thursday that he will win Pennsylvania in November's presidential ele...
Rick Santorum is taking a break from the presidential campaign trail to observe the Easter holiday.The former U.S. senator re...
A crowd of about 400 people greeted Rick Santorum Wednesday outside of the Blair County Courthouse as he brought his campaign...
An ESPN Magazine article published on Wednesdays suggests that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett was behind the firing of for...
A bill that would authorize partnerships between the public and private sectors on transportation projects is on its way to t...
An Altoona college professor and local small business owner is seeking the Democratic nomination for 79th District State Repr...
A large crowd is expected to gather on the patio of the Blair County Courthouse today as Rick Santorum brings his bid for the...
A state House member from southwestern Pennsylvania says he'll remember the friendships he made during nearly four decade...
Pennsylvania's eleven casinos pulled in more than $233.1-million in gross slot machine revenue last month, setting an...
Lose your scissors, screwdriver and pocket knife at a security checkpoint at one of Pennsylvania's airports? Here's y...
Lose your scissors, screwdriver and pocket knife at a security checkpoint at one of Pennsylvania's airports? Here's y...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will pay a visit to Blair County.Santorum is set to hold a rally on Wednesday...
Crunch time is beginning for virtually unknown Republican candidates looking to unseat Senator Bob Casey -- and money for TV ...
A law that sets new rules for Pennsylvania motorists to follow when encountering a bicyclist is now in effect.Since midnight ...
The state House returns to session today to debate and vote on various issues of importance.The full House will debate and vo...
As debate continues on whether prevailing wages in Pennsylvania cost taxpayers more than they should on public construction p...
The Department of Environmental Protection has launched an interactive Earth Day section of its website offering a one-stop s...
Autism cases in Pennsylvania are above the national average, according to a new report issued Thursday.The Centers for Diseas...
A group including seven municipalities is suing the state of Pennsylvania over the new Marcellus Shale law.Among other things...
Pennsylvania students who don't comply with an upcoming immunization deadline will likely find themselves unable to atten...
Mayors of some Pennsylvania cities say a bill backed by gun-rights advocates is an attempt to bully them into repealing ordin...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says state residents no longer must live within a given district in order to circulate petitio...
A new federal lawsuit says a state House resolution that declared 2012 the "Year of the Bible" in Pennsylvania viol...
Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate is advancing legislation for a constitutional amendment that would prevent Pe...
The nation's highest court begins hearings today on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The justices will l...
A veteran’s court could be in the cards for Blair County.Adult Parole and Probation Office officials are trying to dete...
Logan Township will hire two police officers at their April 12th meeting.The supervisors said Thursday they interviewed six f...
Pennsylvania's payrolls expanded at the fastest rate in two years in February.The state Department of Labor and Industry ...
With spring’s arrival, PennDOT is reminding motorcyclists of all skill levels that Pennsylvania residents with a motorc...
Some middle and high school students spent their day Wednesday urging smokers to give up their habit.The effort was part of t...
Two Blair County Commissioners will travel to Harrisburg next week for the Spring Conference of the County Commissioners Asso...
The first three of the remaining Republicans convicted in Pennsylvania's government corruption scandal won't be going...
Pennsylvania criminal courts are all now accepting credit and debit card payments online, with daily collections currently re...
The remaining Republicans convicted in Pennsylvania's government corruption case are about to learn how much jail time, i...
A new report says Pennsylvania hasn't made much progress in raising high school graduation rates between 2002 and 2009.Re...
This week is Wildfire Prevention Week in Pennsylvania.A relatively warm and dry winter has greatly increased the risk of spri...
A Commonwealth Court judge has tossed incumbent 9th District Congressman Bill Shuster's only opponent of the April 24th p...
A former Democratic leader of Pennsylvania's Senate was charged Thursday with misusing Senate staff and resources for pol...
Headlines suggest that Pennsylvania is covered with drilling wells that are tapping into the gas-rich Marcellus Shale.Data fr...
Pennsylvania is home to one of the nation's toughest photo identification laws for voters, less than eight months before ...
The judge in former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case says a defense request f...
Governor Tom Corbett says his upcoming trade mission to France and Germany is no vacation.The governor defended his trip duri...
Members of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives are debating a bill to require all voters to show certain photo identi...
Governor Tom Corbett is citing the value of trade schools and online instruction as he asks a special panel to help chart the...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors and Jerry Sandusky's lawyers will appear in a central Pennsylvania courtroom this morning ...
The Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic and Hollidaysburg girls high school basketball teams continue their journey through this year&r...
As Governor Corbett pushes the idea of privatizing health care services in Pennsylvania prisons, those who work behind bars s...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says he wishes former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had done more after telling uni...
Pennsylvania will receive over $1-million in historic preservation grants from the U.S. Department of the Interior’...
Pennsylvania's pension systems for state employees and school employees are reporting positive investment returns for 201...
Longtime Altoona State Representative Rick Geist has declined an invitation by the Blair County Chamber of Commerce to partic...
It’s finally here. A new state law will require Pennsylvania drivers to pull over and stop if they want to use text-bas...
A Pennsylvania judge says Jerry Sandusky will get the 581 pages of secret grand jury testimony before the start of his trial ...
Pennsylvania state senators are debating a bill to require every voter to show certain photo identification before their ball...
A one-time Democratic power broker in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has been convicted on 10 criminal counts in a cor...
A one-time Democratic power broker in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has been convicted on 10 criminal counts in a cor...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors say they're turning over some of the records and material sought by Jerry Sandusky's d...
A bill to require voters to show certain photo identification before their vote can be counted in Pennsylvania is advancing i...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it's gone through barely half of the budget for this winter's plow...
A national publication has ranked Pennsylvania among the nation’s top states for new or expanded corporate facilities i...
Democrats and advocates for the poor in Pennsylvania are marking the one-year anniversary of the elimination of a state-subsi...
Pennsylvania's employment picture continues to brighten, as the rate fell in January to 7.6-percent.It's the fourth s...
It will soon be illegal to text while driving beginning next week.Pennsylvania’s statewide texting ban goes into effect...
Governor Tom Corbett toured the Norfolk Southern Juniata Locomotive Repair Shops Wednesday where he met with employees.The Go...
The Altoona Curve and six other minor league baseball teams in Pennsylvania will team up against child abuse during the upcom...
Advocates for the disabled in Pennsylvania say they are worried about the ability of some Medicaid recipients to hire home-ba...
The Republican leader in the Pennsylvania House says he doesn't plan to schedule a vote on a bill to mandate ultrasounds ...
State Democratic senators are challenging Governor Tom Corbett's top public welfare official over the administration'...
A new educational program focused on preventing prescription drug abuse among middle and high school students has been launch...
A retired state senator who co-chaired a nonprofit with former House Democratic whip Mike Veon told jurors at his corruption ...
The state Commonwealth Court is poised to open hearings on challenges to dozens of political candidates seeking to get their ...
Pennsylvania is receiving an additional $52.3 million in federal funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Progra...
Pennsylvania has a long history as an industrial state, and a new study out says the pollution that comes with some aspects o...
More children in Pennsylvania are calling high poverty areas home, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundati...
PennDOT is seeking volunteers for this year’s Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania, which begins this Thursday and ru...
The U.S. Postal Service says it's ending outgoing mail processing at the Duncansville service center.Mail processing will...
Harrisburg lawmakers are still split over Pennsylvania's primary election date.Voters are scheduled to go to the polls Ap...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is critical of a bid involving his predecessor for control of Philadelphia's two major news...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is critical of a bid involving his predecessor for control of Philadelphia's two major news...
State Police in Philipsburg say the driver of a gasoline tanker that rolled over and burst into flames on Friday morning was ...
A newspaper is reporting that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett plans to spend about $55-million to repair and upgrade bu...
Residents of six Pennsylvania state House districts that aren't currently represented because their lawmakers have been e...
The five-member Pennsylvania commission redrawing district lines for 50 seats in the state Senate and 203 in the state House ...
Thon, the annual Penn State dance marathon set a record this past weekend as more than $10.6-million was raised to benefi...
People might be surprised to learn that the medical devices surgically implanted in their bodies are subject to almost no gov...
U.S. Senator Bob Casey has called on the Food and Drug Administration to work with Pennsylvania hospitals and healthcare prov...
Governor Tom Corbett paid a visit to Cambria County on Thursday.Corbett met with company employees and discussed his proposed...
State Representative Bill DeWeese is not letting a corruption conviction stand in the way of his re-election.The Greene Count...
U.S. Senator Bob Casey, as a member of the payroll conference committee and the lead sponsor of the original payroll legislat...
The Blair County Commissioners say they are still trying to determine how much revenue the state’s new Marcellus Shale ...
The Blair County Commissioners say they are still trying to determine how much revenue the state’s new Marcellus Shale ...
PennDOT and local police departments are teaming up to encourage high school students to buckle up under Pennsylvania’s...
State elections officials say Republican gubernatorial candidate Newt Gingrich's campaign has filed papers to qualify for...
Pennsylvania state agencies are offering expanded public access to birth and death records under a law enacted in December. T...
A Blair County man accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl will spend the next 40 to 80 years behind bars.Prosecut...
President Barack Obama and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum each have submitted petitions to appear on the Pennsylva...
State prison guards are giving a cool reception to Governor Tom Corbett's proposal for the biggest reduction in the priso...
The administration of Governor Tom Corbett is expecting about $50-million from its new efforts to collect taxes on items ...
A national publication has ranked four Blair County nursing homes among the top 100 in Pennsylvania.According to U.S.News & W...
Pennsylvania's working class carries the burden of Governor Corbett's latest budget proposal, according to union lead...
Candidates who want to file nominating petitions to get on the ballot for Pennsylvania’s April 24 primary election are ...
Thousands of jobless Pennsylvanians will be able to collect federally funded unemployment benefits through early March.Govern...
Pennsylvania's attorney general says a landmark settlement with the big mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses will del...
State Senator John Eichelberger says the 2012-13 budget proposed by Governor Corbett is an important step in the right direct...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors are seeking changes in Jerry Sandusky's bail conditions after getting complaints he's ...
Pennsylvania's public colleges and universities are again facing the possibility of steep cutbacks in their budgets next ...
The state Senate voted Tuesday to impose a fee on natural-gas drilling in Pennsylvania and expand regulations for the booming...
A once-powerful Democratic Pennsylvania lawmaker has been convicted on five of six corruption charges relating to allegations...
A federal judge is mulling challenges to the use of Pennsylvania's 2001 legislative district maps in this year's elec...
Jurors in the corruption trial of once-powerful Pennsylvania state Rep. Bill DeWeese are poised to deliberate for a third day...
A final framework is at hand on sweeping legislation to impose an impact fee and update safety regulations on Pennsylvania...
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved a 5.7 percent decrease in overall workers’ compensation costs that w...
Pennsylvania ranks 14th when it comes to financial security, according to the 2012 "Assets and Opportunities Scorecard.&...
Individuals filing their 2011 Pennsylvania personal income taxes can help Pennsylvania’s military personnel and their f...
An entrepreneur from southwestern Pennsylvania is dropping out of the race for U.S. Senate now that the Republican Party has ...
Punxsutawney is getting ready for big crowds on Groundhog Day this week.Businesses have decorated their storefronts and a lis...
A lawyer hired to represent Pennsylvania House Democrats in the early stages of a state corruption probe says long-time floor...
Pennsylvania's highest-ranking state senator says he thinks an agreement on a sweeping bill to impose a fee on the boomin...
The Republican speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is asking a federal judge to rule that the legislative di...
It’s tax season again, and whether you use an accountant, a computer program, or try to file your returns on your own, ...
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a newly-formed panel of judges, lawmakers, state cabinet members and other officials, ha...
House Bill 1458 goes into effect today, putting Pennsylvania in compliance with new rules from the Federal Motor Carrier Safe...
A task force charged with studying Pennsylvania's child-abuse reporting system and related laws is starting its work.The ...
A new report says Pennsylvania has made moderate progress compared with other states in preparing, retaining and rewarding ef...
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is asking his successor to cancel plans to deny food stamps to people who the state deter...
Pennsylvania's state House majority leader, Mike Turzai, says he's decided against running for U.S. House after telli...
A Pennsylvania state House of Representatives panel is advancing a bill that would slash the chamber's membership from 20...
Former Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno will be laid to rest on Wednesday.The 85-year-old Paterno died Sunday morning, l...
A prosecutor says a Pennsylvania lawmaker who served in the Democratic leadership for many years is a "common thief"...
A bill that would update Pennsylvania law to ensure residents continue to qualify for up to 13 weeks of federally paid jobles...
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether the new district boundaries for Pennsylvania state senators and r...
During January, National Radon Action Month is being observed, marking a time of increased public awareness for this serious ...
The new district lines for Pennsylvania state senators and representatives will be the subject of a state Supreme Court sessi...
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped for the third straight month in December and payrolls expanded slightly.The state De...
Governor Tom Corbett is planning to sign newly passed legislation designed to provide an emergency response plan and accurate...
Pennsylvania gambling regulators say gross revenue at the state's 10 casinos topped $3-billion in 2011 as slot machine re...
Blair County prosecutors want the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reject an appeal that has indefinitely delayed the death pena...
The longtime head of a citizens advisory committee on Pennsylvania's parks and forests has been fired, an action that fellow ...
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the public corruption case against a Pennsylvania lawmaker charged with ill...
After today, a Pennsylvania school district officially runs out of money, and the state's largest public employees union has ...
Farmers in Pennsylvania and around the country only have a couple more months to find alternatives to a common antibiotic use...
A Philadelphia drug dealer convicted of peddling millions of dollars in narcotics throughout Blair and surrounding counties h...
Pennsylvania's Democratic and Republican state committees are preparing to vote on candidate endorsements that could play a c...
A Blair County prosecutor has been named to a new panel that's been established to study Pennsylvania's child abuse laws and ...
Customers of Pennsylvania's state-owned liquor stores can expect to see prices increase in the coming months on hundreds of w...
A former U.S. representative running for Pennsylvania attorney general never took the state bar examination and has not tried...
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has at least four appeals to consider on the state legislative redistricting plan.Wednesday is t...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson will be paid $515,000 annually through June 2014 – and then step down from the...
Lawyers and experts in child abuse are among the people named to a new panel that's been established to study Pennsylvania's ...
The wife of late Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey says the new historical marker honoring his service is in "the place...
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has undercounted the number of wells producing Marcellus Shale natural ...
Arlen Specter is out of office, but Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S. senator isn't done trying to make an impact on public...
More than two million Pennsylvanians could add years to their lives by putting down cigarettes, once and for all. The Centers...
The 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show is underway and Governor Tom Corbett was on hand last week to get it started. During the open...
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare wants to dramatically reduce the number of organizations that can provide finan...
At least two challenges of Pennsylvania's new legislative redistricting plan are in the works. People involved in the planned...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is ordering most state agencies under his control to cut spending by 3-percent for the curr...
The sentencing of two defendants convicted in a Pennsylvania state government corruption trial has been postponed.Dauphin Cou...
Pennsylvania's highest court is making contingency plans to hear appeals of the 2012 state legislative redistricting plan - e...
Some Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives are hoping to jump-start the stalled legislative debate ov...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is ordering a pay freeze for top state employees, including himself. Corbett spokesman Kevi...
Halfway through Pennsylvania's fiscal year, the state government revenue shortfall is already almost a half-billion dollars.F...
The importance of job creation in our country may be one of the few things on which Democrats and Republicans see eye-to-eye....
A Pennsylvania appeals court says the Corbett administration does not have to disclose the precise dates of birth for state w...
The top stories in Pennsylvania in the past year included sex scandals, icons falling, and extreme weather.The child sex abus...
General Electric Co.'s transportation unit has announced plans to spend about $72 million to build a diesel engine plant ...
Tougher training requirements and new restrictions are now in place for teen drivers in Pennsylvania.As of today, anyone with...
Operators of women's health clinics in Pennsylvania that perform abortions are bracing for new regulations that they say coul...
More than a month after Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child molestation charges, a new law went on the books in Pennsylvania...
A bill that would redraw Pennsylvania's U.S. House Districts while trying to ensure the majority are held by Republicans is o...
Governor Tom Corbett's top budget adviser on Tuesday warned that Pennsylvania's tax collections will continue to suffer from ...
A Pennsylvania bill to authorize $1.7-billion in new state borrowing is nearly law after the divided state House voted to...
A bill that would refinance Pennsylvania's unemployment compensation's multibillion-dollar debt to the federal government is ...
Want quick access to Pennsylvania’s criminal records? There’s now an app for that. Docket in Your Pocket launched...
More than 150,000 people have been purged from the Pennsylvania's medical assistance rolls in the last five months amid tough...
A bill to authorize Pennsylvania utility inspectors to enforce federal safety rules over many new natural gas gathering pipel...
More than 150,000 people have been purged from the Pennsylvania's medical assistance rolls in the last five months amid tough...
Dental records have led to the identification of the skeleton found in Bedford County last month.A forensic Doctor says the r...
The state-appointed custodian overseeing the troubled finances of Pennsylvania's capital wants the city's creditors to make b...
Legislation advancing in the state House would expand the options available in Pennsylvania for people to buy wine and beer, ...
Abortion-rights advocates are lashing out at a pair of Republican bills to impose new restrictions on the procedure in Pennsy...
A recently released report says the number of children in Pennsylvania who don't have health insurance is down. The Georgetow...
The U.S. Postal Service wants to close 11 mail processing facilities in Pennsylvania – including one in Duncansville &n...
PennDOT says it's invented a better driver's license.Deputy Transportation Secretary Kurt Meyers said Monday that a new secur...
The Department of Justice says it has begun civil investigations of two state correctional institutions in Pennsylvania. The ...
Attorneys Settle with Second Mile Charity in PA (ap)Attorneys for one of the alleged victims in the Penn State sex abuse say ...
Penn State Downs Boston College, 62-54Frazier and Marshall lead Lions with 22 points each in Big Ten/ACC Challenge winCHESTNU...
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says people can now have wine and liquor shipped to home and business addresses.The Pit...
AP: Sandusky Charity Asks Donors to Give ElsewhereA charity for at-risk children founded by a former Penn State assistant foo...
At least 10 people died in Pennsylvania highway crashes during the Thanksgiving holidays.State police officials said Monday t...
All across Pennsylvania hunters are heading into the woods today as Pennsylvania’s only unofficial holiday - the Monday...
Twenty-one thousand public sector jobs in Pennsylvania have gone away in the last year, and a new report says it's been a maj...
Hunters are encouraged to donate deer meat through the Hunters Sharing the Harvest Program to help feed the more than one mil...
An Altoona man has been added to Operation Our Town’s “Most Wanted List.”Officials say 26-year-old Glenn Pi...
Penn State Taps Ex-FBI Director for Investigation (AP)Former FBI director Louis Freeh has been tapped to lead Penn State's in...
A Republican proposal to change how Pennsylvania's electoral votes are counted in next year's presidential election appears t...
University Police Report Another Indecent Assault (AP) Penn State University police say they've referred another previous inc...
Natural gas can be a major benefit to Pennsylvania's economy, but the environmental price tag that comes with drilling for it...
A familiar name in Pennsylvania politics will run for U.S. Senate in the 2012 election. Representatives close to former State...
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped in October for the first time in five months while payrolls expanded slightly.The st...
New District Judge Assigned for Sandusky Hearing (AP)A new judge is being assigned to handle Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hea...
The requirement that Pennsylvania hunters wear back tags will soon be a thing of the past. The state Senate on Tuesday passed...
Dozens of Blair County volunteers spend their day Tuesday learning how to identify issues involving child abuse.The seminar &...
Nurses at state prisons across Pennsylvania are planning informational pickets to express opposition to a proposal they say c...
Governor Tom Corbett touted a new law designed to protect student athletes who suffer concussions. The governor staged a cere...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says he believes a Penn State assistant coach who said he witnessed a former coach assaulting a...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has joined state and national veterans’ groups in seeking volunteers to assist former...
A long-powerful Pennsylvania senator was re-sentenced Thursday to 61 months in prison in a sprawling corruption case, just ab...
Governor Tom Corbett on Wednesday signed legislation that bans texting while driving on Pennsylvania roads. The new law, whic...
An estimated 20,000 Pennsylvania military veterans have not yet applied for a state-run bonus program recognizing their servi...
A top state lawmaker says Graham Spanier should lose his job as Penn State's president unless a clear explanation is made for...
A Pennsylvania lawmaker and former federal prosecutor is asking for an investigation into whether Penn State officials broke ...
A big question surrounding Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale well drilling has been: does it harm the state's private well...
Projects in eight Pennsylvania counties including Blair, Bedford and Cambria Counties will be receiving funding for the use, ...
“High Unemployment Period” Extended Benefits are now available in Pennsylvania.The U.S. Department of Labor recen...
A new independent poll has fewer than 40 percent of Pennsylvania voters giving an excellent or good review to the jobs being ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to start the first federal probe into whether the controversial drilling technique...
Jurors in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial have finished their first full day of deliberations without reaching a v...
Utility crews are still making headway restoring power to tens of thousands of Pennsylvania customers who lost power in last ...
The jury in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial has begun its deliberations.The six-man, six-woman panel retired to th...
Pennsylvania's tax collections remain behind expectations, although that may be partly by design. The Revenue Department said...
Pennsylvania is getting set to join more than 30 other states that ban all motorists from texting while driving.The state Sen...
Coaches are likely to get new rules shortly on how they handle concussions sustained by Pennsylvania student athletes. The st...
An unseasonably early and destructive snowstorm is being blamed for at least five deaths in Pennsylvania.All the deaths occur...
A former state representative and his aide who are accused of participating in a scheme to illegally spend millions in public...
Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Pat Toomey is getting a Halloween knock on the door today from members of some grassroots g...
Agricultural scientists have warned that herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing national problem. A Penn State Extension Spe...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Linebacker Gerald Hodges (Paulsboro, N.J.) has earned his first Big Ten Defensive Player of th...
The sponsor of a bill to permit hunting on Sundays in Pennsylvania said Thursday its fate is uncertain because of staunch opp...
Testimony in Pennsylvania's 5-week-old government corruption trial is over. Defense lawyers presented several final witnesses...
State senators have begun debate on a major bill to create more opportunities for Pennsylvania public school children to atte...
Impaired drivers, especially those under the legal drinking age, had better beware this Halloween, as PennDOT and the Pennsyl...
A new Pennsylvania law limiting how many passengers that teen drivers can have and increasing the number of hours of behind-t...
The state Senate could vote as early as today on a bill that is designed to meet Governor Tom Corbett's desire to overhaul Pe...
The Pennsylvania state government's financial watchdog is calling for action to address deficient bridges and crumbling roadw...
Abill that would authorize 19 of Pennsylvania's most-populated cities to install red-light cameras in an effort to improve tr...
Tom Corbett says he still favors the privatization of liquor and wine sales in Pennsylvania, but that limits are needed on th...
Pennsylvanians are nearly split in their presidential campaign donations between President Barack Obama and the field of pote...
The man accused of brutally assaulting a 9-year-old girl more than 30 years ago in Bedford County has pleaded guilty to the c...
Having freshly signed a bill aimed at giving him unprecedented power to take control of the finances in Pennsylvania's capita...
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are reacting to the death Thursday of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi. 9th District Co...
Gov. Tom Corbett signed a new law this morning giving him unprecedented power to force Pennsylvania's capital into a state-sa...
A legislative study estimates Pennsylvania could generate up to $804-million in economic activity if it permits hunting o...
A top state senator says he plans to introduce legislation to pump another $2.5-billion a year into Pennsylvania's transp...
A new study says about $125-million has been awarded in the past five years to Pennsylvania fire, rescue and ambulance co...
A few dozen protestors staged a rally outside the office of 9th District Congressman Bill Shuster on Tuesday.The gathering wa...
Former House Speaker John Perzel is scheduled to testify in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial. Officials say the Phi...
A bill to empower Pennsylvania's governor or someone he designates to take over many of the Harrisburg city government's cent...
A plan designating all money generated from the sale of the state liquor stores to be used to improve Pennsylvania’s ro...
A local farming operation will have their land preserved for future generations of agriculture use by a state wide program.K....
Gov. Corbett may be proposing $860 million in cuts to education in Pennsylvania, but a new poll says it's not a popular m...
The last month has been bad for agricultural commodity producers, with plunging prices impacting Pennsylvania’s farmers...
The National Weather Service says last month was Pennsylvania's wettest September on record. Hydrologist Charles Ross at the ...
The years-long buildup of debt in Pennsylvania's capital city is headed for a fight in a federal bankruptcy court, where the ...
The City Council of Harrisburg filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday.The filing lists debts in excess of $400 million largely...
Governor Tom Corbett wants to provide vouchers for low-income students in poor-performing school districts and expand tax cre...
A minority of Pennsylvania legislators has signed a national anti-tax group's "no-tax pledge," and some told a news...
Governor Tom Corbett will lay out his vision today for how to fix public education's ailmentsCorbett hasn't said yet exactly ...
According to woolly worm experts, we are in for a severe winter. News out of the 15th annual Woolly Worm Festival held in Lew...
October is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania, with pink-themed events scheduled in every corner of th...
It's been a roller-coaster of a year for Pennsylvania’s trees: a soggy spring, followed by heat records in July, and th...
A new Pennsylvania state law that overhauls criminal history disclosure rules for all public and private school employees als...
The Local Education and Resource Network of Blair County, LEARN, is hosting an informational and activity fair to celebrate P...
An association of Pennsylvania's county commissioners has a split opinion on Governor Tom Corbett's proposal to allow countie...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says intensive development and a lack of maintenance of storm drains may have contributed t...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is not making an endorsement in the crowded field vying for the Republican Party's nominati...
Governor Tom Corbett says he plans to make an announcement on education policy in the next couple of weeks, but isn't sure if...
Slot-machine revenue at northeastern Pennsylvania's casinos grew at a faster clip last month than it did at casinos in the re...
The Pennsylvania attorney general's office says its building in downtown Harrisburg was evacuated Wednesday after they identi...
The Blair County Commissioner have agreed to spend $77,000 on a patient alert upgrade at Valley View Nursing Home.Adminis...
The number of reported crimes in Pennsylvania is on the decline, and violent crime is falling even faster.A state police repo...
A proposal to change the way Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes will be counted in next year's presidential election is gettin...
Pennsylvania's Department of Revenue says tax collections are lagging $215-million behind projections after the first thr...
A former top aide to then-House Speaker John Perzel says Perzel once harbored hopes of being elected as Pennsylvania's govern...
The state's former environmental protection secretary says criticism about natural gas production in Pennsylvania's Marcellus...
Attorney General Linda Kelly today urged Pennsylvania consumers to carefully review their privacy rights related to the sale ...
A Blair County Prison inmate is missing after walking away from a work-release job.38 year old Robert Losowski, left his job ...
People’s Natural Gas customers will see an increase in their monthly bills beginning today. Rates will increase from &#...
It's the beginning of Week Two in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial.Prosecutors are expected to call more witnesses ...
Pennsylvania's law that governs the collection of DNA may soon get its first overhaul since it was established 16 years ago, ...
Some northeastern Pennsylvania flooding victims are now getting a place to call home — until theirs is ready to move ba...
More than a thousand acres of central Pennsylvania land is now open to hikers, hunters and other nature lovers after being of...
A replica of a Civil War-era train could be rolling through central Pennsylvania in time for the 150th anniversary of the bat...
As Governor Tom Corbett looks to cut spending and the size of government in Pennsylvania, he'll look to recommendations from ...
Pennsylvania is withdrawing nearly 1,000 inmates it sent to a Virginia prison about a year ago.Virginia Department of Correct...
A pharmacist from western Pennsylvania says he'll seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania to challenge...
The City of Altoona has received an extra $900,000 from the state towards its annual pension fund contribution. Officials...
A Pennsylvania state official says a program to help people with intellectual disabilities has approved payments for luxury c...
Postal workers across Pennsylvania staged rallies Tuesday afternoon.The workers visited Congress members' home offices, hopin...
The director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency says there are still 114 people living in shelters as a result o...
A former coal company owner from Armstrong County is announcing his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in next yea...
Pennsylvania's top-ranking state senator is suggesting that privatizing state-controlled sales of liquor will be a bad deal f...
Former Pennsylvania state Senator Vincent Fumo could face more prison time when he is re-sentenced next month in his federal ...
The first trial of Republicans in Pennsylvania's corruption scandal is about to get under way in a Harrisburg courtroom.Openi...
As you get your home ready for the coming cooler weather, you can help naturalists track a disease afflicting Pennsylvania&rs...
A former Republican staff member in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives is guilty of a single count of conspiracy in a st...
The federal government has approved nearly $40 million in grants so far for Pennsylvanians victimized by this month's flo...
A tea party activist from northeastern Pennsylvania says she plans to seek the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent U...
An environmental group says that air quality problems may be even worse than previously thought in a new report issued Wednes...
Pennsylvania prosecutors say they're having to drop or not pursue cases against people for not registering under the state's ...
Governor Tom Corbett is in Washington to meet with Republican members of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation about a plan...
A new Pennsylvania legislative report says the rate of wrongful convictions of innocent people can be reduced by changing how...
Pennsylvania lawmakers have returned to Harrisburg for their fall legislative term.30th District State Senator John Eichelber...
State senators who represent areas that saw intensive flooding in the wake of Tropical Storm Lee are planning legislation to ...
Both violent crimes and property crimes are down slightly in Pennsylvania, echoing national and regional trends. The FBI rele...
The Corbett administration is making changes to the state agency that primarily regulates Pennsylvania's booming natural gas ...
A nationwidesuicide prevention campaigncomes to Pennsylvania this week and money raised will be used for research and educati...
A businessman from the Philadelphia suburbs is planning to join the crowded field seeking the Republican nomination to challe...
Governor Tom Corbett is revealing more details about the kind of fee he wants to impose on Pennsylvania's booming natural gas...
National Child Passenger Safety Week is set to kick-off on Sunday. The Pennsylvania State Police, PennDOT and Safe Kids Blair...
Organizers in central Pennsylvania say the 157th annual Bloomsburg Fair has been canceled.A statement on the fair's Twitter f...
Pennsylvania's state fiscal watchdog says he can't tell whether $5.2-million in cash welfare benefits was spent legally b...
Governor Tom Corbett says he favors a plan to overhaul the way electoral votes are awarded to presidential candidates in Penn...
Governor Tom Corbett says he favors a plan to overhaul the way electoral votes are awarded to presidential candidates in Penn...
The enormity of the devastation caused by last week's record flooding in central and eastern Pennsylvania is beginning to eme...
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission held a public hearing Wednesday at the Duquesne University School of Law.Several s...
State lawmakers are learning there may not be an approach to Pennsylvania's illegal trash dumps that'll satisfy everyone. At ...
President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for 19 Pennsylvania counties affected by last week's deadly flooding...
The state Senate's Republican leader wants to shake up the way Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes will be counted next yearMaj...
A private interment ceremony for the last remains of those killed aboard Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania has ended with famil...
Cooler weather, fall colors... and ragweed. For allergy and asthma sufferers, this time of year in Pennsylvania is anything b...
Flooding brought on by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee are being blamed for four deaths in Pennsylvania, including a man t...
Governor Tom Corbett is giving nearly 25,000 state employees a second paid day off.Amid widespread flooding in central and no...
Pennsylvania's top environmental official says the state will use tough enforcement when it comes to regulating natural gas d...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is gearing up for heavier-than-normal traffic volumes throughout the Laurel Highlands an...
Penn State president Graham Spanier says a continued erosion of state funding could lead to dramatic increases in tuition for...
Penn State is urging fans traveling to Happy Valley this weekend for the Number 23 Nittany Lions' game against Number 3 Alaba...
State Police are urging Pennsylvania residents to be alert as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approach...
The 2011-12 state budget slashed funding for the Pennsylvania’s Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program. Howev...
The Altoona-Blair County Airport has received a $500,00 grant from the state for safety improvements. Governor Tom Corbet...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and other officials are honoring more than 300 state troopers who've served in the U.S. arm...
The former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a public co...
A Blair County judge has refused to throw out a felony kidnapping charge against a woman accused of taking a baby from a city...
Unemployment rates continue to rise in the region.Figures released by the state Department of Labor and Industry show that Bl...
It’s back to class today for students of the Bellwood Antis, Tyrone Area, Hollidaysburg Area and Williamsburg school di...
Hurricane Irene is being blamed for the deaths of three people in Pennsylvania who were killed by falling trees and one man k...
Governments, airports, utilities and rescue workers across Pennsylvania are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Irene, preparing...
Residential electric customers will pay more starting next Thursday according to Penelec officials.The average residential cu...
Pennsylvania officials say highways, bridges and other vital structures in the state escaped serious damage from the Tuesday ...
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia was felt all across Pennsylvania, with people from Philadelphia to Altoona to...
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation inspectors are checking bridges around the state in the wake of Tuesday's earthquak...
Many publicly funded colleges and universities in Pennsylvania enacted above-average tuition increases for the 2011-2012 scho...
A Blair County Commissioner has received a top award from a respected statewide association. Commissioner Donna Gority has be...
Small-business owners in Pennsylvania hoping to prevent pollution and save money by improving energy efficiency are now eligi...
As officials track a recent salmonella outbreak in infected ground turkey, a food-safety expert in Penn State's College of Ag...
The Department of Environmental Protection today issued a drought warning for four Pennsylvania counties and a drought watch ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike wants to know why those drivers who still pull tickets and pay in cash are resistant to the E-ZPass...
Sunday hunting is being debated in Pennsylvania.Some proponents of the change point to the current prohibition as being the l...
Pennsylvania may be ending its one-year experiment with wine vending machines at grocery stores amid a contractor dispute.The...
Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation announced Wednesday an immediate voluntary recall of approximately 36 million pounds of gr...
The Department of Health says since August is National Immunization Awareness Month, it’s a good time for Pennsylvania ...
Former Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board chairman Jonathan Newman has announced his support of privatizing the PLCB.He joins ...
Federal officials say one person has died from salmonella poisoning that appears to be linked to eating ground turkey, but th...
Pennsylvania collected $1.7 billion in General Fund revenue in July, the first month of the 2011-12 fiscal year, Secretar...
Transportation Secretary Barry Schoch, on Monday delivered the Transportation Funding Advisory Commission final report on lon...
They organized the 1979 No Nukes concerts after the Three Mile Accident in Pennsylvania – and now Musicians United for ...
The Pennsylvanian Public Utility Commission has fined People’s Natural Gas $20-thousand for violating the state&rsq...
Pennsylvania State Police have issued a Missing Endangered Persons Advisory on behalf of the FBI and the Terre Haute, Indiana...
The Corbett administration says Pennsylvania state government can operate for a while without interruption even if Congress d...
The General Assembly's leading advocate of privatizing liquor and wine sales in Pennsylvania is already pitching his plan to ...
A judge has stopped enforcement of a northeastern Pennsylvania school district's policy to require students to submit to rand...
Pennsylvania’s junior senator says there's a real possibility that Congress will fail to agree on how to raise the fede...
A hearing dealing with declaring a missing Centre County District Attorney legally dead is scheduled for today.The daughter o...
There is a good chance that the drugs you buy from your local pharmacy come from rarely-inspected factories in foreign countr...
More than a half-million private landowners control about 70 percent of Pennsylvania’s forests, and many of them are wo...
Dangerously hot and humid conditions will continue today. Many valley locations will have the heat index reach 105 to 110 deg...
The National Weather Service is predicting excessive heat and humidity statewide right into the weekend. Current forecasts ar...
The passing of a long time Altoona Area School District band director is being mourned by former students and school official...
It’s the heart of the summer driving season and a time when Pennsylvania drivers are feeling the pinch at the pump. To ...
The search is on today for a Williamsburg woman who has been missing since Monday.State Police report that 46 year old Sandra...
Blair County officials say the state is making good on a funding promise, albeit two years late.County leaders said Tuesday t...
The chief executive of one of Blair County’s largest social service providers will call it quits later this year. Famil...
Pennsylvania motorists can help PennDOT prioritize its highway safety efforts by sharing their opinions on traffic safety enf...
Pennsylvania's environmental regulators are agreeing to take more precautions before they approve certain permits for oil and...
Pennsylvania's massive transportation needs were not really part of the mix last week when lawmakers and Governor Tom Corbett...
Governor Tom Corbett is signing dozens of new Pennsylvania laws that the Legislature passed in the first half of its 2011 ses...
Governor Tom Corbett is signing dozens of new Pennsylvania laws that the Legislature passed in the first half of its 2011 ses...
Nesting bald eagles have put a temporary halt to work on a central Pennsylvania highway project.The Pennsylvania Game Commiss...
A new casino in Philadelphia spurred much of an increase in tax revenue from slot-machine gambling in Pennsylvania.The Pennsy...
The daughter of a central Pennsylvania district attorney who went missing more than six years ago has asked a judge to declar...
Governor Tom Corbett signed Pennsylvania’s new state budget into law Thursday night just 15 minutes before midnight.The...
PennDOT, the Pennsylvania DUI Association and local police gathered Thursday to urge motorists to designate a driver if they ...
Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled state legislature gave final approval on Wednesday to a $27.15 billion budget.The bu...
A bill to curtail the voting powers of Pennsylvania school board members in election years is meeting resistance from an infl...
Governor Tom Corbett has signed a bill to widen the right to use deadly force in self-defense in Pennsylvania.Corbett signed ...
Tuition rates remain in flux at Pennsylvania's 18 state-supported universities as lawmakers advance a plan to reduce aid to t...
Pennsylvania counties may soon get some much needed help when it comes to recovering some of the costs associated with keepin...
Pennsylvania's education secretary says he's dismayed so few school districts are taking up Governor Tom Corbett's challenge ...
An online financial scam is using a similar name and the former address of a legitimate, licensed Pennsylvania company to sol...
Pennsylvania's Republican state senators are being told by the chamber's leaders that a "tentative deal" is in plac...
So-called bath salts and certain other synthetic drugs are now illegal in Pennsylvania. It’s official. Governor Tom Cor...
A bill to widen the right to use deadly force in self-defense in Pennsylvania is on its way to Governor Tom Corbett, who's ex...
Proposed legislation would allow undocumented immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Pennsylvania colleges if they mee...
Real school choice legislation that would help put Pennsylvania students on equal footing has been introduced in the state Ho...
Opening junk mail, attending a free lunch seminar or entering contests may all seem like harmless activities, but they’...
A Pennsylvania public policy group is calling on state lawmakers to breathe new life into a ten-year-old healthcare plan for ...
The Blair County District Attorney announces this morning that he will be pursuing an Injunction against businesses selling b...
More than 300 police officers, firefighters, elected officials, Boy Scouts and others gathered in Hollidaysburg last night to...
A bill to keep up to 13 weeks of federal emergency jobless benefits for an estimated 45,000 Pennsylvanians is one step closer...
Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, now a consultant to the natural gas industry, says drillers operating in the Marcellu...
State lawmakers have agreed on a bill to ban the synthetically produced chemicals known as "bath salts" that are le...
A Senate panel is sending to the floor a bill to impose an impact fee on natural-gas drilling in Pennsylvania. The Environmen...
A local recount in a statewide judicial election cost Blair County $4,000.Commissioner Donna Gority says the county is se...
A bill to ban synthetically produced drugs known as bath salts is popular in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives. The bil...
A bill to tap into the revenue stream from Pennsylvania's natural gas drilling boom is expected to be taken up by a state Sen...
From Mississippi to North Dakota, recent natural disasters have been unusual in timing, location or severity. Dave Filson is ...
To improve the efficiency of Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Program and enhance patient care a new program has been ...
Pennsylvania environmental groups have signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to reject a proposed...
Five local firefighters from the Blair County DCNR Forest Fire Station have departed for Arizona to battle a major wildfire.A...
A bill that would impose a $100 fine on drivers in Pennsylvania for using cell phones and other wireless devices while dr...
A new survey ranks Pennsylvania among the worst states for creating barriers to young voter participation. The report release...
More than 200 people rallied in the Pennsylvania Capitol for tougher environmental protection — if not an outright ban ...
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum plunged into the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes Monday, saying he wants t...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says he didn't ask for the four new sport-utility vehicles that state police purchased for ...
Schools across Pennsylvania are facing a very different landscape today than they have in years past, and the state's largest...
Eligible older adults and families with children can receive vouchers to help them buy fresh, local produce at farm markets a...
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is telling Pennsylvania's government liquor agency that it's canceling an agreement to sell wine th...
Retired military leaders are asking Pennsylvania lawmakers to reject proposed cuts in state aid for early childhood education...
Pennsylvania state government had another good revenue collection month in May, and is heading into the final month of the fi...
A U.S. House report on spending for the first quarter of 2011 shows that Pennsylvania’s representatives spent some $...
A week after a grand jury report exposed shortcomings in Pennsylvania's casino licensing process, there are questions about w...
Blair County’s elections officials will begin recounting thousands of ballots this morning in a tightly contested state...
There is good and bad news for Pennsylvania in a new Kids Count snapshot of foster care in the U-S. Latest numbers show a sli...
PennDOT is urging motorists to drive safely and buckle up this Memorial Day weekend.According to PennDOT, there were 967 repo...
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of grilling season in Pennsylvania, and there are plenty of ways to make your co...
Former Senator Rick Santorum is planning to kick off his presidential campaign next month in western Pennsylvania coal fields...
A ballot recount appears likely in a close race for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court. Although...
The Blair County Commissioners say it was an overload Web Site that caused a delay in the posting of election results during ...
A Republican-sponsored bill to overhaul Pennsylvania's unemployment compensation system is stalled in the state House of Repr...
Wireless phone companies are backing an alternative to a state Public Utility Commission plan that would have split the vast ...
A Dauphin County judge has postponed the second trial of disgraced Pennsylvania political power broker Mike Veon until next y...
A cameraman for a reality TV show has died three weeks after being injured in a helicopter crash near Indiana University of P...
The National Weather Service has confirmed that tornados touched down in at least three counties in central and eastern Penns...
PennDOT will conduct an open house and plans display to inform the public of the proposed Sink Run Bridge rehabilitation proj...
With graduation and prom season underway and summer vacation fast approaching, PennDOT is reminding young drivers to avoid di...
Two dozen state employees earn $200,000 or more and are among nearly 3,600 state workers paid at least $100,000 per y...
In Pennsylvania and across the country, this is has been National School Nurses week. With advances in medicine and increased...
A bill that would make it easier for Pennsylvania's public school districts to lay off teachers has the state Senate's approv...
Pennsylvania's state House Republican majority is unveiling more details of a counterproposal to Governor Tom Corbett's budge...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is considering which types of criminal convictions are serious enough to prevent people from h...
A measure to hold Pennsylvania abortion clinics to the same regulations as freestanding surgical centers is closer to a final...
Two more Altoona Area School District employee groups have agreed to a wage freeze for the 2011-12 school year.Board members ...
State officials have allocated the $612-million in gambling proceeds that will be used to lower property taxes for Pennsy...
May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month in Pennsylvania. According to PennDOT, there were more than 4,000 crashes involving ...
The Altoona Area School District has been named an overachieving school district by the Pittsburgh Business Times.The publica...
The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania is backing a state Senate bill that calls for the implementation of user...
After months of waiting Pennsylvania municipalities now have a new tool to help fight blight.Updates to Act 90 – also k...
Pennsylvania state troopers made 17,695 arrests last year for driving under the influence. It’s the ninth straight year...
An Altoona woman has been arrested on drug charges following a Pennsylvania state Police Vice Unit investigation.During the p...
The Altoona-Johnstown Roman Catholic Diocese officially has a new leader. Monsignor Mark Bartchak was ordained as a bishop on...
The Pennsylvania Treasury is holding at least $5.2-million in unclaimed property for Blair County residents.State Treasurer R...
Budget Secretary Charles Zogby on Friday certified that $776.2 million in gaming revenue will be available for property tax r...
The City of Altoona has a new name – at least temporarily.City Council voted Wednesday to rename the city Pom Wonderful...
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Blair County officials say they continue to support the idea of keeping Valley View Nursing Home a county-owned facility.Thei...
A familiar sight is beginning to return to Pennsylvania’s highways – those pesky, orange construction barrels. An...
Bedford County prosecutors said Thursday that a man being held in a Maryland jail on a vehicle theft charge and will face fir...
Pennsylvania still has the largest percentage of structurally deficient bridges than any other state, raising questions about...
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