Food bank executives and a union leader urged Democratic lawmakers to “protect SNAP at all costs” at a committee hearing ...

Pennsylvania state officials are pushing back on the Trump administration’s claim that there may be more than 14,000 potential noncitizens registered to vote in the state.

Constellation is now undertaking a $1.6 billion effort to restart the nuclear power plant, which will supply 835 megawatts of ...

Over 100 people from 15 Pennsylvania counties joined a rally on the Capitol steps Wednesday, urging Shapiro to protect ...

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

(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 ...

This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale and is available for republishing. One of the first things to notice about Phillip Ocampo is his laugh. Big, ...

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 ...

With state lawmakers likely to miss a court-imposed deadline to pass legislation addressing sentencing for second-degree murder, rhetoric about what that means has grown heated. “There is a chance ...

Emily Scolnick is a 2026 Dow Jones News Fund intern at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. State Sen. Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia) rises at the end of every legislative session with one message ...

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 ...