Billy Penn delves into the backstory to Gov. Shapiro’s surprise budget move, and what it will mean in 2025 and beyond.

Hundreds of private schools across Pennsylvania will receive nearly $20 million in state grants for mental health programs ...

State lawmakers will spend the next several months dealmaking to help SEPTA avoid a fiscal crisis that could impact riders ...

As the $14.9 billion overseas acquisition of Pittsburgh’s U.S. Steel barrels toward resolution of some kind, the state’s ...

Bethany Hallam, an Allegheny County council member, says Democrats can fix things, but she cautions against interpreting 2024 ...

In July, the Bay received a C+ grade, its best in 20 years, in the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s ...

Schools across the region have received a combined total of more than $3.5 million in safety and mental health grants from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s School Safety and ...

Trump has threatened to roll back tailpipe emissions standards and other regulations, despite evidence the rules are leading ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with a man he met in 2017 who was locked up in immigration detention. A judge finally let him return to his family, but he now wonders what the next four years will bring.

State government covers more than half of operational costs for mass transit systems in Pennsylvania’s largest cities.

For many shoppers it’s a tradition, and for many stores it’s one of their biggest sales days of the year. We’re talking Black ...