The highest-ranking Republican in the state Senate described the looming service cuts and fare hikes at Pennsylvania’s largest transit agency as a “manufactured crisis” that doesn’t need to happen.

For all the political debate about whether or not to retain state Supreme Court justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty or David Wecht this fall, one question rarely gets discussed: If voters ...

HARRISBURG — As major service cuts to SEPTA draw nearer with Pennsylvania’s state budget entering its eighth week overdue, the battle lines in Harrisburg are becoming clear: It’s the Philadelphia ...

Advocates from the Pennsylvania State Education Association held a press conference on Aug. 26 criticizing Senate Republicans, specifically Sen. President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, over the budget impasse ...

Pennsylvania's Republican-led Senate passes a budget bill for this year, keeping spending at the same levels as last year, at $47.6 billion. The bill passed at a vote of 27 to 22 along party lines.

The sale of cosmetics developed using animal testing would be banned in Pennsylvania beginning in 2027, under legislation approved by the state Senate on Wednesday. Senate Bill 381, dubbed the Beagle ...

As partisan divide keeps Pennsylvania the only state without a complete budget, one lawmaker decided to go through each proposal line by line, and he found there’s plenty of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Senate will be in voting session this Tuesday as the state legislature continues to hash out the budget, which was due June 30. “It is important that we ...

The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Tuesday about a proposed law to mandate all schools in Pennsylvania be phone-free. A group of concerned parents from Western Pennsylvania ...