Tom Riese | WESA

Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity has been slow to share her policy on skill games, even as a prominent supporter of the industry rallies to support her.

The list of Democrats named in a series of online threats has nearly doubled in size. State Rep. Dan Frankel says he was told his name was on it after a "more thorough review."

The Pennsylvania state House has approved two bills related to data center construction. The votes are the latest moves by Harrisburg lawmakers to regulate a fast-growing industry that some communities and environmental groups have opposed.

In a near-unanimous vote, the Pennsylvania state Senate this week passed a measure that seeks to add safeguards for children who interact with artificial intelligence chatbots.

As budget hearings got underway last week, Pennsylvania state lawmakers questioned officials with the state Department of Corrections about why they deserve a budget increase, even after deciding to close two prisons in Centre and Clearfield counties.

A dispute between Pennsylvania officials and the Trump administration over the state's food-stamp program shows no sign of being resolved, days after a federally imposed deadline for personal information about nearly 2 million beneficiaries.

A long-simmering battle between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and the White House over the state's food-stamp program is set to come to a head by the end of this week.

For Pennsylvania Democrats, the bad news during the past year hasn't just been that they lost every statewide election in 2024. It's that they've been losing a lot of the voters themselves: The party is in danger of surrendering an advantage in voter registrations it has enjoyed in the state since the 1970s. And if there's a silver lining, it may lie in the rise of voters who are sick of both parties.

Democrats have said they have no interest in passing a six-month, short-term budget, while Republicans have signaled that their return to Harrisburg this week may be to propose just that.

State Democratic lawmakers are urging their Republican colleagues to return to the Capitol to vote on a budget package, as Pittsburgh's transit system has six months — and Philadelphia's system has one week — before service cuts go into effect.