Sen. Ted Cruz headlined a rally for US Senate candidate David McCormick near Allentown on Tuesday. Former Trump White House insiders Hope Hicks and Sarah Sanders are also lending their support.

A wide-open race for the seat being vacated by two-term Republican Sen. Pat Toomey has attracted wealthy and well-connected transplants, and the homers are seizing on it.

The Health Department is pushing more residents to get vaccinated and taking steps to support hospitals hit by severe staffing shortages and a growing tide of COVID-19 patients.

Proposals from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission that must reflect a decade of demographic changes identified by the census narrowed opportunities for Pennsylvania Latinos, critics say.

Scrutiny over facts, historical context, and racist references has prompted changes and outright removals of historical markers across the state. 

The Wolf administration requested Federal Emergency Management Agency “strike teams” for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and ambulance companies in the hardest-hit areas of the state.

Geisinger is running at 110% capacity across its nine hospitals — overrun with largely unvaccinated COVID-19 patients who represent a quarter to well over half of all admissions.

Current law says police officers attempting to arrest someone can use deadly force in order to prevent death or serious injury to themselves or others.

Carla Sands, Mehmet Oz — best known as the host of TV’s “Dr. Oz Show” — and David McCormick all seem prepared to spend millions of their own dollars to win a Senate seat.

The justices in a 5-1 decision put on hold a lower-court order. If the justices hadn’t acted, the mask mandate would have ended on Saturday.

The upcoming round of drawing new congressional district boundaries for the 2022 election is the first time in three decades where a Republican-controlled Legislature must share the task with a governor who is a Democrat.

The governor said that, on Jan. 17, he expects to turn over decisions about masking to local school officials. The state’s universal masking requirement for early learning programs and child care facilities will remain in place.

The Trump-endorsed candidate testified that he never choked his estranged wife or pinned her down, as she had accused him of doing, and never struck one of their children in a fit of rage.

Armstrong High School students chanted vulgarities at the Mars Area High School team’s female goalie during an Oct. 28 game between the Armstrong River Hawks and Mars Fightin’ Planets.

Laurie Parnell’s testimony came during divorce and custody proceedings in Butler County court over the custody of their three school-age children.

The five-person commission voted 4-1 to certify census data that shifts just under 27,000 state prison inmates back to their home districts for the maps that will be used for state legislative elections during the coming decade.

Rules requiring people with felony convictions to wait two years after completing their sentence are meant to enhance public safety and thwart fraud attempts. But advocates say the transgender community simply wants the right to use names that match their identities.