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The chairman of Pennsylvania's $26.5 billion state employee pension system said Monday he is stepping down, partly because of state Treasurer Rob McCord's criticism of the handling of allegations of possible misconduct against its chief investment officer.
Last year, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and eight out of nine council members said it was time for Pittsburgh to end its financially distressed status under Act 47.
Gov. Tom Corbett is ending his pursuit of the operator of the British national lottery to run the Pennsylvania Lottery in a privatization deal promising $34 billion in profits over the next 20 years.
More than one million unemployed Americans lost their benefits Saturday as the Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program expired.
Police in Connecticut have released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation into last year's school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Some Allegheny County employees are being accused of manipulating the system to earn higher pensions, and it is costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
Pennsylvania's Auditor General will be in town today to talk about a proposal that would raise the minimum wage.
Long-time Democratic political operative Damon Andrews passed away suddenly from a heart attack on Sunday evening.
Fitazgerald and Wagner discuss the party on Friday and Rich continues to talk about Range Resources.
"It was emotional," Pittsburgh's mayor-elect Bill Peduto told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Monday afternoon.
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) Earlier this year a man who was allegedly hallucinating and paranoid killed his 76 year-old grandmother in Gibsonia when he said the "Archangel Michael" made him do it. The family told KDKA's John Shumway when it happened they wanted to see laws change because families need protection against thoughts who they feel are violent but have yet to act out.
Two Pittsburgh-area lawmakers are speaking out about a direct mail and robocall campaign UPMC is waging against their bills that would require all large health systems in the state to accept insurance from any in-state company.
Service could be a little slower today at fast food restaurants as workers walk off the job to protest the federal minimum wage.
Hundreds of people showed up Wednesday night to the Baldwin-Whitehall school board meeting after the resignation of one of its members.
Pittsburgh City Council has given preliminary approval to a pilot project that would install surveillance cameras at certain traffic lights to catch drivers who run red lights.
