Some Head Start preschools in Pennsylvania are finding themselves in financial limbo, still unable to access their federal funding.

Discontent with Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman is growing among some Pennsylvania voters.

The Eagles and Chief meet on Sunday in the Super Bowl. Studies have shown the big game also coincides with a rise in cardiac events, including heart attacks..

More cases of Avian influenza have surfaced in commercial poultry flocks in several Central Pennsylvania counties.

The U.S. Education Department is investigating potential civil rights violations at the University of Pennsylvania, one other university and a high school sports league that allowed transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams.

OpenAI is scouring the country for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology -- and Pennsylvania is a possibility.

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Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget plan would more than double the state’s Ag Innovation Fund.

The governor is also hoping to lower energy costs for families -- as part of his budget proposal, and legalize marijuana in Pennsylvania.

Geisinger’s unionized Luzerne County nurses are voicing their demands for their updated contract in one last effort to avoid a strike.

Pennsylvania is using some of its opioid settlement money to support harm reduction services in Philadelphia.

A Lancaster County nonprofit that helps refugees and immigrants has furloughed much of its staff.

The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Franklin County has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.

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Governor Josh Shapiro has pitched a $51.5 billion state budget to a joint session of the General Assembly.

The proposal includes more funding for K -12 education.

Shapiro is also introducing flat funding for state-related universities, including Penn State.

He is also taking another crack at securing more public transit funding.

The impact area where a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia last week could reopen later today.

A strong majority of journalists at LNP | LancasterOnline and WITF, have voted to form a union -- a move they hope leads to contractual protections in the event of more layoffs and job reshuffling.

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Governor Josh Shapiro is expected to seek more money for public schools and public transit when he delivers his third budget proposal to lawmakers later today.

Penn State leadership have announced the university’s budget allocations for fiscal year 2026-27. University Park will see a small overall increase in funding, while the Commonwealth Campuses -- like those in York. Harrisburg, Mont Alto and Reading -- are getting another cut.

A new lawsuit claims -- for the first time -- people died because of the Norfolk Southern toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border.

Congress is considering recently proposed legislation aimed at enhancing safety for both freight and passenger rail travel.

A number of Pittsburgh businesses closed their doors Monday to raise awareness of the benefits that immigrants bring.

Allegheny County Democrats and Republicans have picked their nominees to replace the late Representative Matt Gergely in the 35th state House District.

If you're planning to attend an event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, be advised on a closure now in effect.

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The number of people hurt in Friday’s medical jet crash in Northeast Philadelphia has risen to 22. Seven people died in the accident.

Days after the Trump administration blocked any new refugees from entering the country, it cut services for refugees already in the Pittsburgh region.

Two state House members from western Pennsylvania have authored a bill requiring restaurants to notify diners of allergens in their food.

A Central Pennsylvania school board is investigating why a racially insensitive note was posted on one of its school buses on Friday morning.

By a vote of 6-3, the Elizabethtown Area School Board has voted to explore the possibility of full-day kindergarten.

Four months after layoffs, and with possible management-dictated changes in their jobs looming, journalists at LNP | LancasterOnline and WITF will vote “yes” or “no” this morning on joining a union.

It’s been two years since a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Industrial chemicals contaminated the community of East Palestine and made hundreds of people sick. Researchers are stepping in to look into potential health impacts

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Some passengers who died in the collision of an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. have ties to the Philadelphia and Delaware regions.

The U.S. Department of Justice is awarding $2.5 million for Pennsylvania to create a statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.

Governor Josh Shapiro has unveiled a plan to boost energy production in Pennsylvania.

New test results show schools in Pennsylvania and across the country are still struggling to help students recover learning lost during the COVIC-19 pandemic.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting refugee resettlement to the United States. The abrupt move has left thousands of people around Central Pennsylvania and the world in precarious situations -- including some who face retribution from the Taliban if they’re sent back to Afghanistan.

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County commissioners across the state want vote-by-mail reforms and additional funding for 911 and mental health services.

Governor Josh Shapiro says that Pennsylvanians will be spared a steep rate hike proposed last year by the operator of the state's electric grid.

A Lancaster County school board has adopted two policies crafted by the Independence Law Center, which has worked with typically Republican-dominated school boards to craft policies on student access to library books and rules for transgender students’ use of restrooms and locker rooms.

A former instructor at the Army War College in Carlisle and Penn State graduate has been removed as commander of the Air Force's 613th Air Operations Center in Hawaii

Members of 14 refugee families due to resettle in Lancaster next month now face an uncertain future -- amid the Trump administration's new immigration orders that have paused all relocation plans.

A surprise inspection at a federal prison in Union County revealed serious issues over things like understaffing and quality of inmate health care.

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The Trump Administration’s attempted federal funding freeze has left many agencies and organizations in Pennsylvania scrambling for information.

The administration also says schools and churches are no longer off limits when it comes to immigration enforcement. The State College Area School District’s superintendent addressed the issue this week, as concerns circulated about immigration enforcement turning up in the community.

Hundreds of people are protesting the termination of the Susquehanna County Library’s administrator and demand protection of LGBTQ-plus books.

Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey is one of four locations which will be sharing $3.6 million with the goal of improving health outcomes for newborns and their mothers.

Appalachian Trail hikers in Port Clinton have faced a set of steep, sagging stairs and an active railroad at their base. The Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club and the Reading & Northern Railroad worked together over the past few years to improve safety on a small section of the trail in Schuylkill County.

A 22-year-old from Lackawanna County has died while taking part in boot camp at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections. But, concerns are being raised by voting rights groups over President Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Pam Bondi. She supported Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania in 2020 and has reiterated his false claims about his loss that year.

Public health departments investigate and respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases, inspect restaurants, and collect all kinds of health data. But most counties across the state do not have their own health departments. New research has found those that do tend to have better health outcomes.

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