With less than 100 days until the 2026 November election, Democrats and Republicans are preparing for pivotal Pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices ruled that mandatory life sentences for second-degree murder were unconstitutional, but ...

Nationally, only 11 states mandate life without parole sentences for those convicted of felony murder. Until this spring, ...

State Sen. Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia) rises at the end of every legislative session with one message for lawmakers. “It’s been 7,309 days since Pennsylvania last raised the minimum wage,” ...

Providers caring for the commonwealth’s fastest-growing population got a little relief in Pennsylvania’s latest spending plan, securing guaranteed minimum funding for nursing homes. “I would say the ...

(This article was updated at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, July 23, 2026, to include comment from the Department of Homeland Security.) In response to the Trump administration’s latest effort to place ...

As state lawmakers appeared poised to miss a deadline set by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala filed a petition seeking a 120-day extension, giving ...

Like two sides of a coin imprinted with the nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” — out of many, one — America’s political factions are cast in opposition, but they are intrinsically bound together as ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Pennsylvania’s largest cyber charter school, Commonwealth Charter Academy, is ...