Pennsylvania Government News

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.

State environmental regulators determined that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies for at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to a cache of nearly 1,000 letters and enforcement orders written by Department of Environmental Protection officials and obtained by The ... (more)

It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Greater Pittsburgh Motorcycle Safety Council held a press conference on Sunday outside PNC Park to stress the importance of sharing the road with motorcycles.

A Pennsylvania native, Kathy Strunk says spring has her craving rhubarb and asparagus, which are bountiful this time of year in Pennsylvania.

Three cheers for the emergency first responders, PennDOT, its engineers, draftsmen, work crews and the many construction workers who reacted almost immediately to the I-81 bridge catastrophe in Susquehanna Township.

The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.

More Pennsylvanians went to work in April, swelling the ranks of the state's employed to over 6 million workers.

After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.

Drivers on the Parkway East will have to deal with delays once again as the outbound side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel will remain closed until Monday.

In the past, researchers have sought to determine the geographic distribution of many life-threatening conditions, including stroke and cardiac arrest.

Anyone who drives the roads of northeastern and central Pennsylvania knows there is a little bit of construction out there these days.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and in the ICU that functions as an artificial replacement for a patient's heart and lungs, has also been used to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

FRACK WATER: A new review looks at the impacts of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania on the state's water.

The ramp has been closed since May 9 when a tractor trailer tanker crashed and its cargo of diesel fuel burned.

The nuclear gauge that fell off a truck on Interstate 81 earlier this month has turned up undamaged in Maryland, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced today.

Facts are facts. That seems fairly simple, unless the subject at hand is taxation of Marcellus Shale drilling.