Shapiro backs off $100M private schools program in budget stalemate
Pennsylvania House Democrats are returning to the Capitol as they object to a budget deal between Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Senate Republicans.
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Pennsylvania House Democrats are returning to the Capitol as they object to a budget deal between Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Senate Republicans.
The 2023-24 fiscal year begins Saturday, and Shapiro's signature on a new budget bill is required to maintain full spending authority.
Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania's politically divided Legislature appear on track to start the state's new fiscal year without a spending plan in place.
Shapiro's office gave no reason for the decision.
Testing of several crops showed no contamination.
The 1st fire truck to respond to the I-95 collapse drove on new temporary lanes Friday before the highway opened to drivers.
A prosecutor's review of voting problems in a Pennsylvania swing county where ballot paper ran out in November says there's no evidence of criminal activity or purposeful efforts to prevent voting.
Pennsylvania's Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved a measure that would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2026 in a close vote Tuesday, a long-held party campaign plank that has run up against Republican legislative majorities for years.
The certification would help students of military-connected families that relocate to new schools.
The House advanced two pieces of gun legislation that would allow authorities to temporarily seize firearms and expand background checks for gun buyers.
A proposal to allocate $100 million in federal funds to pay for adult mental health programs easily passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to increase the state's property tax and rent subsidy for seniors and people with disabilities, plus raise the income eligibility cap to expand the program.
Amid the stalemate, survivors renewed calls for the Legislature to pass either version of the measure..
A small town just made a big accomplishment.
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether he first needed approval from a Legislature that opposed the plan.
The roundtable event was held at Hempfield Area High School in Westmoreland County.
Pennsylvania's state Senate is approving legislation to ban so-called safe injection sites.
On Monday, Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign a bill into law that's being called the first of its kind in the nation.
On Monday, Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign a bill into law that's being called the first of its kind in the nation.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are sending a bill to Gov. Josh Shapiro's desk that they say will save lives by helping patients diagnose breast cancer more quickly.
Pennsylvania's high court is holding a Republican-majority county in contempt over its commissioners allowing a third party to copy voting-machine data.
A top Republican state lawmaker is giving a withering assessment of a key element of Gov. Josh Shapiro's budget proposal.
A Pennsylvania court is throwing out a challenge to how lawmakers have bundled together five potential state constitutional amendments, including one regarding abortion.
The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change has started meeting, a step the Democrat promised to take when he criticized his predecessor's strategy to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon-pricing policy.
The judge ruled that the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval was unlawful.
