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Since Penn State announced its multimillion-dollar budget deficit in 2022, the university has deeply cut the budgets to its graduate school and engineering college, a Spotlight PA analysis found.

In a letter to the homeland security secretary, Al Schmidt cites critical help local election officials get from the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA.

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Weed companies spent $1.6 million last year pushing Pennsylvania lawmakers to legalize recreational use of the drug.

Pennsylvanians want electoral reform. Voter ID’s political path forward will thread a needle

Central Pennsylvania protestors rallied outside of U.S. Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson's Bellefonte office Tuesday, calling on him to answer their questions about recent federal spending cuts.

Over the years, Pennsylvania’s been a hub for eye-catching license plates honoring everything from river otters to D.A.R.E to Quaker friendliness.

Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County is canceling this year’s campground reservations, citing staff shortages amid recent federal job cuts and hiring freezes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the property, said scheduled recreation and stewardship events also will be reduced and could be canceled.

A bipartisan legislative agency to support rural Pennsylvania is urging Penn State’s leadership to consider long-term community impacts when deciding which of its Commonwealth Campuses to close.

Key Republicans are questioning whether an “adequacy” supplement targeted at underfunded schools is inherently unfair.