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Philadelphia City Council members are up in arms over the mayor's decision to renew a huge contract for prison health care to a company that was recently forced to pay nearly $2 million to settle the city's fraud claim.
Benefits to the long-term unemployed will be cut by 9.4 percent, beginning next week.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie has picked up the endorsement of a major Latino group that backed Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine in the last election.
Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is being praised by women's groups for proposing a ten-percent increase in funding for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.
Students at Carroll High School, in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood, formed a human chain today across the front of their building, to protest the district's plan to permanently close their school and 28 others.
The Supreme Court challenge focuses on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Acts, which forces 14 states, mostly in the South, to get pre-approval from the Justice Department before implementing any laws that affect voting.
Local NAACP president Jerry Mondesire says repeated attempts to contact the mayor have been met with silence.
If you have air travel scheduled after Friday, and you've been wondering whether automatic federal budget cuts will affect your plans, the answer appears to be no.
During state House budget hearings, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board chairman Skip Brion said he doesn't like his agency being "vilified" in the debate over privatizing liquor sales.
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter outlined some of his priorities for the upcoming year before more than 1,400 business leaders in an address to the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
This was supposed to be the crisis that wasn't. Now, the impact of some of the expected local cuts would be felt all across the Delaware Valley.
Congress heard testimony from a number of organizations about the impact that sequestering, or cutting of domestic programs, would have on the country.
This is the second time that a British company has extended its bid to operate the Pennsyvlania Lottery since Pa. attorney general Kathleen Kane determined that the contract would violate the Pennsylvania constitution.
Second District councilman Kenyatta Johnson says his district is among those that will be hardest hit by the move to the so-called Actual Value Initiative ("AVI").
At 74-percent its the he highest of any New Jersey Governor in the 17 years that Quinnipiac has been polling the state.
