The state Senate Education Committee advanced a bill requiring that public schools adopt policies prohibiting cellphone use ...

Pennsylvania legislators have passed just 65 bills in 2025, which is poised to be an all-time low for the past decade, ...

Pennsylvania has the largest full-time state legislature in the country, with 253 well-compensated state representatives and senators. Yet it has been unable to fulfill one of its primary missions: ...

(WHTM) — A bill proposing a two-year lawsuit window for child sex abuse survivors has reached an all-too-familiar impasse in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. A new session meant new bill numbers, ...

A bill including a limit on freight train lengths and a prohibition on blocking grade crossings for more than five minutes ...

Pennsylvania state lawmakers are pushing forward with changes to non-monetary bail as a handful of Senate Democrats joined all Republicans in the State Senate to pass the bill. The bill was inspired ...

WASHINGTON — Voters from opposite ends of Pennsylvania will fill two state legislative vacancies in special elections Tuesday. Democrats are defending a state House seat on friendly turf with control ...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign ...

From Medicaid coverage and building codes to school safety and boats, several new Pennsylvania laws are set to take effect ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers reached a deal on a state budget on Wednesday, Nov. 12, to end a four-month stalemate that held up critical funding to school districts, local governments and other agencies.

Charles Suppon has big plans for the Tunkhannock Area School District. At any given time, the northeastern Pennsylvania district’s chief operating officer can rattle off statistics about fields in ...

The United States of Readers program will distribute free books to nearly 3,500 high Title I students across five Pennsylvania school districts Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at ...