Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House in special elections, splitting power in an important swing state.

The narrowly divided state House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved a logjam over control of the chamber by making its new speaker a Reading-area Democrat who was nominated by western Pennsylvania conservative Republicans.

An order requiring masks inside Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools and child care facilities will remain in place while the state Supreme Court considers the governor’s appeal of a lawsuit that overturned the mandate, the high court ruled Tuesday.

A bitter dispute erupted on the floor of the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday when majority Republicans blocked a Democratic incumbent from being sworn in because his GOP challenger has disputed the razor-thin election results.

Dick Thornburgh served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979-1987 and later served as U.S. Attorney General in Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush’s administrations.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives canceled its voting session Thursday after a Franklin County representative tested positive for the coronavirus.

Gov. Wolf announced a three-stage plan for Pennsylvania to slowly reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A former Penn State football player claims in a lawsuit that Nittany Lions players hazed him and other younger teammates by imitating sexual acts in the shower and invoking Jerry Sandusky’s name.

The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a tough winter during the American Revolution boasts a new feature that’s a couple of hundred million years old — dozens of fossilized dinosaur footprints discovered on rocks used to pave a section of hiking trail.

Pennsylvania’s elected auditor said Friday that officials in 18 of the state’s 67 counties reported accepting gifts, meals or trips from firms competing to sell or lease new voting machines ahead of the 2020 elections.