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Study reveals Pennsylvania wildlife agencies face future budget crisis
An independent study of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Fish and Boat Commission revealed that both agencies may exhaust all of their reserve funds by 2034 if changes are not made.
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Pennsylvania set to open grant applications for fruit farmers affected by spring freeze
The move comes as USDA expands disaster declarations to more Pa. counties.
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Data center developers want to build in three Pa. communities. Each has its own experience
In many communities where data centers are proposed, there has been strong public opposition.
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The Pennsylvania residents getting rich off the data center boom
A new Wall Street Journal story highlights how 96 families in Salem Township, Luzerne County, collectively sold about 1,700 acres to a data center developer for an average of $330,000 an acre and earned $5.5 million on average.
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Primary care medics: lessons from the military might help close healthcare gaps in rural Pa.
Similar to how corpsmen and medics triage care and stabilize patients who can’t immediately see a doctor, a new initiative would deploy Primary Care Medics under the supervision of licensed physicians to improve primary care in the commonwealth’s rural communities.
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Here’s how townships are acting on Franklin County data center law
In Pennsylvania, municipalities have authority over land use and zoning. About half of communities in Franklin County do not have zoning to limit where different types of developments can build.
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Pa. can move ahead with broadband expansion after feds back down on wage dispute
The reversal removes what could have been a major roadblock to connecting roughly 130,000 Pennsylvania homes and businesses that still can’t get broadband.
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We asked, you answered: If you could ask any Pa. elected official one question, what would it be?
With so many issues impacting Pennsylvanians right now, what would you ask your elected officials if given the chance?
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In the battle for data centers, tech giants got a blue-collar ally: Pa. unions
With data center construction accelerating, unions are expanding training centers and seeing their ranks grow faster than many union leaders have ever seen.
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Pennsylvania’s first underground state park opens to public
The facility is a 435-acre park centered around the largest and deepest limestone cave in Pennsylvania. The property includes four miles of cave passages that go as deep as 476 feet and the largest bat shelter in the northeast.
