Pennsylvania Government News

State police and the York County Coroner's Office are investigating the work-related death of an Etters man Tuesday morning in Warrington Township.

He was in town to meet with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board about his Ciroc liquor label, according to spokesperson Stacy Kriedeman.

Editor's note : The following information comes from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The gastrointestinal tract contains literally trillions of such cells, and yet the immune system seemingly turns a blind eye.

The majority of traffic fatalities involving unbuckled victims occurred at night last year, spurring a nighttime emphasis on a "Click It or Ticket" seat-belt enforcement effort beginning Monday and extending through June 9, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation .

Pennsylvania's Sen. Bob Casey and Sen. Pat Toomey both participated in Wednesday's hearing about IRS scrutinty of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.

While there are major solar energy and wind energy projects in Pennsylvania and one school district in the state has won an award for cutting their energy usage by one-third, a new report from the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium says more radical changes to Pennsylvania's energy system are needed to prevent catastrophic consequences ... (more)

As the result of a historic agreement between the New York Public Library and the State of Pennsylvania, the National Constitution Center will exhibit one of the original copies of the Bill of Rights that President George Washington dispatched to the states in 1789 for ratification.

All county offices, with the exception of the Elections Division and Elections Court, will be closed.

Study to be presented during 2013 ATS Special Session: 'Care at the End of Life: Room for Improvement, Ideas for Change' PHILADELPHIA-The decision to limit life support in patients in the intensive care unit appears to be significantly influenced by physician practices and/or the culture of the hospital, suggests new findings from researchers at ... (more)

Other than the occasional patch of fog, the morning commute around the Harrisburg area is running smoothly as of 6:30 a.m., according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.

The struggle for equal human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Pennsylvania has seen significant developments this month.

Gov. Tom Corbett is recommending changes to a set of education regulations that have been criticized by both Democrats and conservatives.

The research was conducted by assistant professor Ertugrul Cubukcu and postdoctoral researcher Fei Yi, along with graduate students Hai Zhu and Jason C. Reed, all of the Department of Material Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Pennsylvania American Water officials today hosted the Department of Community and Economic Development Senior Advisor Mike Cortez, Public Utility Commissioner Wayne Gardner, Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Secretary Kelly Heffner, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and other dignitaries to mark the completion of major ... (more)

A former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare caseworker will spend five to 10 years in state police for firing 17 shots at state troopers who surrounded his house after he allegedly refused to come out when they responded to a drunken domestic dispute in October.

Recent Census Bureau projections show that immigration rates are up in the Unites States, while the number of births have declined.

Scattered records kept by the state Department of Environmental Protection offer one answer to a key question in a new age of fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania: How many water supplies have been damaged by drilling? The Times-Tribune requested the letters and enforcement orders that might best account for the number of drilling-disrupted water ... (more)

Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper.