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Weddings have been cancelled, veterans have been turned away from memorials and furloughed employees are unsure if they'll get a paycheck on Oct. 15, as Sunday marks day six of the government shutdown.
The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work.
The Port-Authority is proposing to reroute buses that stop in the heart of downtown.
Gov. Tom Corbett's comments on a CBS Television station in Harrisburg ignited a firestorm.
The director of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare region that includes Pittsburgh says he's retiring "with mixed emotions" - but made no specific mention of a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak that occurred on his watch.
FirstEnergy says it will close two coal-fired power plants in southwestern Pennsylvania as scheduled next week with no expectations that they will be sold or reopened under stricter environmental regulations.
A woman with a 1-year-old girl led Secret Service and police on a harrowing car chase from the White House past the Capitol Thursday, attempting to penetrate the security barriers at both national landmarks before she was shot to death, police said. The child survived.
Unable to get health insurance because of a pre-existing condition, Julie Goodenough of Crafton was excited to sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but so far it's been frustrating.
They call themselves Internet sweepstakes cafés. You buy a phone card, which buys you time on a computer, and you can play video poker or Keno for cash or prizes. But after KDKA's reports, the legislature declared them gambling parlors and passed legislation banning them.
On the first day uninsured Americans could sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, a crowd turned out at the Hill House to learn more.
A government shutdown will furlough as many as 800,000 of the nation's 2.1 million federal workers. It hit early Tuesday as a bitterly divided Congress failed to approve a temporary spending bill to keep the government running.
Congress has missed the deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown in 17 years.
It was one of those rare displays of bi-partisanship between Republicans and Democrats as local elected officials joined Governor Corbett to launch a program called Innovate in PA targeted at dozens of local inventors.
Absent a last minute Congressional deal, a government shutdown will begin at midnight tonight -- and Pennsylvanians will be affected.
Tuesday, Oct. 1, is the first day uninsured Americans can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, often known as Obamacare.
