Since last week, when Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order to more easily hire former federal employees to state jobs, ...

Rules adopted in 2023 for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act say that discrimination based on gender identity is prohibited ...

A conservative legal group representing Pennsylvania school districts and parents has sued Pennsylvania over rules barring ...

The legislators are currently working on the new fiscal year state budget which is supposed to be adopted by the end of June.

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While there may be differences in the details, one thing is clear: Democrats and Republicans in Harrisburg agree we must ...

The state's nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office has been the subject of partisan debate over how long-term budget ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is up in arms about federal funding he was counting on being withheld from Pennsylvania agencies. He didn’t seem to have any trouble canceling funding to pro-life counseling centers ...

Leave it to our honorable governor to enact yet another innovative solution to help people. That is what Gov. Josh Shapiro has done in seeking to make it easier to hire federal workers who have found ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro made a pitch to federal workers fired by President Donald Trump’s administration: Pennsylvania wants to ...

I don’t know why he did it. But we’re going to see a real effect of his policies, and the effect is going to be higher prices ...