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Philadelphia and six other Pennsylvania cities are ranked in the Top 100 on U.S. News and World Report’s list of the Best Places to Live in the U.S. for 2022, with all but one moving up more than 10 spots from last year, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in business profit tax cuts passed the Republican-majority Pennsylvania House on Tuesday, and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said he was optimistic a final deal can be struck in the coming months.

Drop boxes for depositing mail-in and absentee ballots would be banned and donations to run elections would no longer be permitted from groups outside government under bills approved Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Senate.

Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature has failed in a last-ditch effort to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a regulation requiring fossil fuel-fired power plants to pay a price for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is spurring Pennsylvania lawmakers to draft legislation to require the state Treasury Department and the state’s three public pension funds to divest holdings connected to Russia

NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports on how people in the Philadelphia region are gathering to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia Borys Gudziak is calling for local municipalities to send supplies to help Ukrainians fight.

A state court is stopping a Philadelphia ordinance that requires gun owners to tell police when a firearm has been lost or stolen

Pennsylvania’s highest court is signaling that it may get involved in the process of redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional district boundaries.

The midterm elections later this year will determine who controls Congress. NBC10 reporter Lauren Mayk discusses why the races for local U.S. House seats in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are so important.

Police say an adult was taken into custody after a 4-year-old child was critically wounded in a shooting in Pennsylvania’s capital over the weekend.

Pennsylvania’s state Senate is attempting to overhaul how probation is handled, in an effort to clamp down on people being stuck on an endless probation cycle or being sent back to jail for minor violations.

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate is advancing legislation to prevent school children from being required to get a COVID-19 vaccination to attend school, although it likely faces a veto by Gov. Tom Wolf.

Miss America will be crowned, but after a century the future of the event historically held in Atlantic City is unclear. Plus, a look at Philly’s new indoor dining mandate as COVID fears remain heading into the holidays, what’s being done about a string of recent Center City robberies and take a look some memorable Santa photo moments. This is...

Republicans who control the state Legislature are advancing a new plan to remake Pennsylvania’s courts, the latest GOP strategy that could cut short the state Supreme Court’s Democratic majority

A bill to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit has been passed by a divided Pennsylvania House, but faces a veto threat from the governor.

Jake Corman, the ranking Republican in Pennsylvania’s state Senate, has tested positive for COVID-19, a day before he was expected to announce his candidacy for governor.

Pennsylvania’s two open races for a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s office in 2022 puts the state in the spotlight once again as the midterm elections will decide control of Congress.

Authorities say a Pennsylvania state trooper shot and killed a man who refused to drop a knife.

In the six years since signing the Paris Agreement with the goal of reducing its carbon footprint, the U.S. has actually increased carbon emissions. This sets the stage for the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, but as scientist and activist Sweta Chakraborty explains, there will be a gap between what climate activists want to see from world leaders and...

Pennsylvania’s state Senate is advancing legislation that would bar municipalities in the nation’s No. 2 natural gas state from adopting building codes that prohibit gas hookups, or otherwise restrict utility service based on the energy source.