HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s payrolls are continuing to grow, but a persistent worker shortage is still keeping labor markets tight. The state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 5.4% in Dec…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania has set another annual record for gambling revenue in the era of online gambling and sports betting. State regulators say casinos and other operators won more than $4.7 billion from gamblers in calendar year 2021 in one of the nation’s largest commercial c…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bill McSwain, the chief federal prosecutor in Philadelphia under former President Donald Trump, has the endorsement a major Republican campaign donor in a big field of GOP candidates seeking the nomination for governor.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Farm Show returned as an in-person event this month, but parking revenue suggests many stayed away during the still-raging pandemic. The Department of Agriculture said Thursday that parking revenue was down by more than 40% from 2020, the most recent i…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Getting rid of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate is emerging as perhaps the most important issue in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, as the party struggles to use its majority in Washington to advance its agenda. Calls to eliminate the fi…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old student was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after two people fired shots into a van at a Pittsburgh school.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Senate is advancing a package of legislation aimed at preventing data security breaches and requiring victims and law enforcement officials to be notified when they do happen. The bills' passage Wednesday comes barely two weeks after the state’s un…

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested in a shooting in a western Pennsylvania mall parking lot that injured thee people. State police in Butler County say multiple shots were fired at about 6 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three police officers have been charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment after firing their weapons in the direction of a crowd of people exiting a high school football game outside of Philadelphia, injuring three people and killing an 8-year-old girl. A grand …

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A statewide court is giving lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf a deadline of Jan. 30 to break a stalemate around redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of demographic shifts. The Commonwealth Court on Friday set the deadline for it to judge p…

PEACH BOTTOM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say two people were found dead after an early morning fire in a Pennsylvania home. State police in Lancaster County say a passerby reported the blaze in the two-story Fulton Township home just after 3:30 a.m. Monday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden packed carrots and apples into food boxes for the hungry and chatted with volunteers Sunday at a food bank as part of a day of service for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

McCONNELLSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania is being stopped just as it was about to get underway.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A plan to redraw lines for Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of population shifts is advancing in the Legislature with a partisan vote that signals lawmakers have more redistricting work ahead.

Pennsylvania's attorney general says the large student loan servicer Navient has settled allegations of predatory practices for $1.85 billion. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Thursday in a news release that the settlement includes $1.7 billion in debt cancellation and $95 million in restitution.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The title of “Pennsylvanian” is increasingly the go-to weapon for Republican primary candidates for U.S. Senate. A wide-open race for the swing-state seat has attracted wealthy and well-connected transplants. Homers like Jeff Bartos and George Bochetto are seizing on it.

The Wolf administration says it has no plans to pursue another COVID-19 emergency declaration, or attempt new statewide mitigation measures or vaccine mandates in response to the omicron variant.

NEW CASTLE, Pa.— Debate season for two statewide political offices kicked off this week in Lawrence County. Republican candidates for Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial and senate races packed the stage at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle on Wednesday night.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison in the strangulation slaying of his girlfriend’s mother whose body was found after a 2019 Pennsylvania fire.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — State House Republicans who just lost a key vote on new preliminary legislative district maps moved Monday to regain more control of the process.

CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. (AP) — A wooden roller coaster built more than eight decades ago that was the centerpiece of a northwestern Pennsylvania amusement park is no more, but officials say it wasn’t destroyed by a fire at the park last week.Early reports had indicated that the Blue Streak roller…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania court won't block an entire subpoena to state election officials in what Republican state lawmakers call a “forensic investigation” of 2020′s presidential election, fueled by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the election.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — George Bochetto, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and Republican who has fought various high-profile cases in the city’s courts, says he's running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say they are trying to find out who deployed a chemical mixture in a southwest Philadelphia police station waiting area, prompting an evacuation.

LAKE LYNN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died after a roof collapsed at a stone mine in Western Pennsylvania.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator who has pushed to overturn last year’s presidential election and led protests against pandemic shutdowns and mitigation efforts formally announced on Saturday that he will run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

(AP) A gas driller has waived its right to a preliminary hearing on criminal charges that it acted with “long-term indifference” toward a Pennsylvania community where high levels of methane leaked into residential groundwater supplies. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is charged with breaking state…

NEWBERRYTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police who pulled over a suspected drunken or drugged driver in Pennsylvania discovered a live deer that had apparently been hit and then placed in the hatchback area of her car.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania has begun working to boost the number of hospital beds and organize “strike teams” of extra healthcare workers for hospitals and nursing homes struggling with surging COVID-19-related caseloads and staffing shortages, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More extreme time pressures could push the bounds of how Pennsylvania’s elections are run in 2022, with races for U.S. Senate and governor driving voter interest and partisan stalemates in the statehouse sowing uncertainty.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investigators are looking into the possibility that a 5-year-old child who was playing with a lighter set a Christmas tree on fire, sparking a conflagration that killed 12 people in a Philadelphia rowhome.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The deadliest single fire in Philadelphia in at least a century has killed 12 people, including eight children, and sent two people to hospitals.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger acknowledged that his emotions were still high in the hours following a 12-point win Monday night against Cleveland.

Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI’s excavation.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a large house fire in Philadelphia has caused fatalities, but they declined to say how many people died.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than a dozen Republican candidates for governor are expected to appear on stage for the first time in a question-and-answer session sponsored by conservative groups and a statewide business association.

CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. (AP) — A fire at a Western Pennsylvania amusement park has damaged a wooden roller coaster built more than eight decades ago. WICU-TV says reports from Conneaut Lake Park late Tuesday afternoon indicated that a controlled burn near the carousel got out of hand.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is sitting on a fat budget reserve, a healthy and growing surplus in the current budget year, and billions in unspent federal coronavirus relief funds.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Democratic Party’s presumed nominee for governor this year is endorsing a Pittsburgh-area state lawmaker to be his running mate and lieutenant governor.

PITTSBURGH--The University of Pittsburgh begins its spring semester online because of the surge in COVID-19 cases.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scientists say a meteor that caused an earthshaking boom across suburban Pittsburgh on New Year’s Day exploded in the atmosphere with an energy blast equivalent to an estimated 30 tons of TNT.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — David McCormick has resigned as CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge funds. That's according to Connecticut-based Bridgewater Associates on Monday, as McCormick moves closer to declaring his candidacy for U.S. Senate in his native Pennsylvania.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger could be making his 135th and final start at Heinz Field when the Steelers host Cleveland.