The Latest Breaking News from Pennsylvania

A small exhibit delivered a big message in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the nation's largest Amish community

For too many Pennsylvanians, a criminal record from decades ago can be the primary obstacle separating them from a job, a livelihood, and a chance at a fresh start.

For the sake of the state Republican Party and Pennsylvania politics as a whole, most GOP candidates for governor should drop out and unite behind the strongest challengers to Franklin County state Sen. Doug Mastriano for the May 17 primary.

When the news dropped around 9 p.m. on Monday, one woman said she’d stomped around her house, cussing. Another said she cried. Only 20 hours after the unprecedented leak of a looming Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a half-century of abortion rights, they and more than 100 other people,…

cutting back on what seemed like a categorical prohibition on anti-libel injunctions from a 1978 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) has acquired Tangent Energy Solutions, a U.S.-based energy-as-a-service (EaaS) company. Deal terms were not disclosed. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania-based Tangent offers customers turnkey solutions to lower energy costs, boost energy efficiency, reduce emissions, monetize electric grid support, and provide resiliency for customer operations. Tangent's software solutions monitor patterns from grid…

PHILADELPHIA — The share of students of color in Pennsylvania is growing far faster than the diversity of the state’s teaching force, resulting in one of the widest gaps in the country, according to a new report.

PHILADELPHIA — The Shofar Army took the stage, nine white men and one woman draped in fringed Jewish prayer shawls, each clutching a ram’s horn — the instrument traditionally sounded on the Jewish high holidays.

Welcome to the Thursday, May 5, Brew. 

What could be the final primary debate between Republicans running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat devolved into a string of attacks

GROVE CITY, Pa. — From the grandiose auditorium on the campus of Grove City College about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, the five leading Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania — Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick included — debated on Wednesday evening.