Pennsylvania legislature

The Pennsylvania Legislature’s spending grew by more than 8% last year, adding some $28 million to its own reserves.

Senator Bernie Sanders is leading the way to pass a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour over the next four years. This effort is drawing major attention in Pennsylvania where the minimum wage does not exceed the federal rate of $7.25. NBC10’s Political Reporter Lauren Mayk tells you how the “Raise the Wage...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said the state is missing out on tax revenue by allowing recreational marijuana use. Wolf, a Democrat, called on the GOP-controlled legislature to take up legalization soon.

A publicly elected Philadelphia official will face criminal charges, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday.

State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell surrendered to police on Wednesday morning. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says the Philly representative will be resigning. She was accused of stealing money from her community and using it for personal use.

Frustrated by the Pennsylvania Legislature, four men are taking advantage of a shifting legal landscape to file suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton over decades-old allegations of clergy sexual abuse.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the fallout from a clergy sex abuse scandal that broke one year ago in the Keystone State is still happening. His office, he told NBC10 in an interview, gets many calls related to the case.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers’ newly filed ethics forms show they accepted more than $83,000 in free trips last year and collected a variety of gifts, booze and free meals. That’s just the value that lawmakers reported, and they are not required to disclose everything they accept in a state that does not limit gifts to public officials.

Mike Stack, one of the more well-known Northeast Philadelphia politicians of the last two decades, is dropping his bid for a City Council at-large seat.

A tradition continued Wednesday as candidates seeking office in Philadelphia’s municipal elections pulled their ballot positions for the upcoming May primary out of a coffee can at City Hall.

A ban on plastic bags in the town that makes up most of New Jersey’s Long Beach Island went into effect May 1 after a six-month grace period.

Businesses in Long Beach Township, New Jersey can no longer provide customers with traditional plastic bags. It’s part of an effort to protect waterways and wildlife. 

Republicans are fighting back against Pennsylvania’s new congressional map. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk has the details on what happens next and why tensions are running so high.

The fighting between Republican leaders who control the Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has reached epic heights Tuesday, with squabbling going back and forth at such a pace that it’s hard to keep up with.

Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania Legislature are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the imposition of new congressional district maps viewed as likely to give Democrats a boost in their quest to capture control of the U.S. House.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s election-year budget plan unveiled Tuesday will renew battles with the Republican-controlled Legislature over imposing a tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas and increasing the minimum wage.

Some Pennsylvanian fans are Eagles fans, some are Steelers fans but together we now have seven Super Bowl championship thanks to the Eagles win. “Fly Eagles fly,” says. Gov. Tom Wolf during his budget address.

The federal lawsuit, filed earlier this month, alleges that majority Republicans in the state Legislature drew congressional maps that give the GOP an unconstitutional partisan advantage at election time.

Repeat DUI drivers are killing at an astounding rate, according to PennDOT and AAA. But the NBC10 Investigators discovered efforts to get them off the road sooner are going nowhere.

Juveniles should only rarely be sentenced to life without parole, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Monday, telling prosecutors that such cases require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is an unusual example of someone who can never be rehabilitated.