Josh Shapiro

Elected leaders from around Pennsylvania honored labor leader Richard Trumka, who died Thursday.

Richard Trumka, the powerful president of the AFL-CIO who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to preside over one of the largest labor organizations in the world, died Thursday. He was 72.

York County’s three commissioners — two Republican and one Democrat — are pushing back against State Sen. Doug Mastriano’s election audit.

Congressman Lou Barletta is also seeking the former president’s endorsement, and state Sen. Doug Mastriano has said Trump asked him to run.

Josh Shapiro has slammed state Sen. Doug Mastriano’s efforts to start an audit of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results.

Voters were supposed to be able to vote on an amendment this month, but a blunder by the Department of State kept it off the ballot.

The proposed amendment likely won’t finally pass until 2023.

As the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Legislature works to pass voter suppression laws, Democrats in Congress have one chance to stop the assault on voting rights.

State officials anticipate 2020 opioid overdose death totals will exceed those of each of the past three years, including 2017, a year many consider the height of the opioid crisis.

Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar will leave her post after an error will delay a proposed Pennsylvania state constitutional amendment for two years.