States are absorbing substantial increases in health care costs for the poor, as they realize that the people remaining on ...

State funding to school districts in Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties would increase by a total of $55.9 million ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro spent part of his afternoon on Thursday talking fiscal policy with children — with surprising success.

Leaders from Philadelphia children’s advocacy group Children First say the lives of children in the commonwealth will improve ...

NANTICOKE — Luzerne County Community College President John Yudichak on Friday lauded Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed 2025-26 budget — saying the governor has continued his commitment to making a college ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is escalating its response to Avian Influenza after multiple cases of the virus ...

Another year, another billion-dollar boost for public schools. Like he has done each of his first two years in office, Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday called for Pennsylvania to dramatically increase its ...

Shapiro, in his budget address Tuesday, called on legislators to work with him to regulate the 70,000 so-called skill games ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that his administration projects would save Pennsylvania more than $110 million ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2025-26 budget would more than double the state’s Ag Innovation Fund and open a fourth bird flu testing ...

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