Pa. House Lawmakers Move Ahead With Corbett-Backed Fracking Measures
A Pennsylvania House committee has approved a bill with wide-ranging provisions addressing natural gas drilling in the commonwealth.
Watch CBS News
A Pennsylvania House committee has approved a bill with wide-ranging provisions addressing natural gas drilling in the commonwealth.
Plans for a large "wall wrap" billboard on a building that faces Vine Street Expressway prompted debate Tuesday in City Council.
"I personally believe – and I'm not speaking for the LCB – I personally believe that privatization is something at this point in time that probably the citizens of the commonwealth are ready for," Joseph "Skip" Brion said.
Governor Tom Corbett is expected to sign a bill heading to his desk that will create guidelines for dealing with concussions and head injuries suffered by student athletes in Pennsylvania.
A city council committee has signed off on plans for a new apartment building at Broad and South Streets in Center City, but not before some residents on neighboring streets voiced their concerns.
City officials have broken ground in Manayunk on a $46-million project designed to capture storm water runoff.
Pretty soon, you'll have to resist the urge to pick up your cell phone and send a text response to your BFF while behind the wheel in Pennsylvania.
A Philadelphia City Council committee has sided with waiters and waitresses over restaurant owners.
Everybody uses it, but almost nobody appreciates: infrastructure.
Republican state senator Stewart Greenleaf says he has no intention of running for president but has put his name on the ballot in New Hampshire to speak out on pressing issues.
The Nutter administration is continuing negotiations with the "Occupy Philadelphia" protesters encamped near City Hall, trying to convince them to move before a renovation of Dilworth Plaza begins.
It's a week left until Election Day and our local elections may mean a lot for the White House. Plus, a surprise announcement from a local politician is turning heads.
The already-extended deadline for the Homestead Benefit and the Senior Freeze programs was to have been yesterday but it's been moved again.
State Senate action on a bill to regulate and impose fees on natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania has been delayed for at least two weeks.
Philadelphia would lose one seat in the state House, and Chester County would gain one, under a reapportionment plan given preliminary approval by state legislative panel yesterday.
