Harrisburg News

Local environmental and community outreach groups are pushing rain barrels as one way to minimize urban stormwater runoff that exacerbates Susquehanna River pollution and taxes the capital city's outdated water transport and treatment systems.

Harrisburg City Police are investigating multiple overnight incidents, including a home invasion.

New legislation will help align funding for the 911 system now and in the future, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Director Glenn Cannon said Tuesday in a press release.

The sign on the Maryland line today says "Welcome to Pennsylvania," but in June of 1863, many Pennsylvanians didn't stick around to greet the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

A Pennsylvania state representative is getting some serious slack for online antics.

A group of Cecil Township protesters traveled to Harrisburg Tuesday to demand state Rep. Jesse White's resignation-with some calling for him to go to jail.

Lebanon police said they have charged a 13-year-old city girl in a playground assault as well as a woman who instigated the attack.

A press conference held by Derry Township police and the Dauphin County District Attorney's office is underway.

A naked man chased two women as they walked home from the Walmart store in Carlisle early Tuesday, borough police said.

A Harrisburg man branded by a prosecutor and a judge as a "career criminal" was sentenced Monday to 25 to 50 years in state prison for fatally stabbing another man during a February 2012 fight on the city's Restaurant Row.

Richard Allan is still the Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on a video from the Department of Environmental Protection's website.

"Poison hemlock is a non-native, invasive we call it species that just seems to have exploded across the county and South Central PA," said Jeff Graybill, with Penn State Agriculture Extension.

A Harrisburg man is recovering from a bloody fight over the weekend. Police say he tried to stop two men from breaking into a neighbor's car.

With the summer comes mosquitoes, and with mosquitoes comes the chance of West Nile Virus.

Harrisburg, June 17- Average retail gasoline prices in Harrisburg have risen 0.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.40/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 241 gas outlets in Harrisburg.

PennDOT maintenance crews this week are making repairs to the inside shoulder of northbound Interstate 81 in Dauphin County, between Exit 67 and Exit 70 .

A 56-year-old Midtown man told Harrisburg police he was attacked by two men over the weekend when he confronted the pair about their suspicious behavior.

Police are looking for two men who attacked a good Samaritan while he was trying to prevent them from breaking into vehicles in Harrisburg.

The capital city's controversial Wild West artifacts collection will be unveiled to the public Monday when an online catalog of about 3,500 items items goes live.

Motoring along Routes 22/322 west of Harrisburg, the highway bends left over the Susquehanna River.