Pennsylvania news
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Pennsylvania budget boosts mental health funding. Will it be enough?
The state’s budget allocated $10 million for the 988 crisis hotline, which serves as a lifeline geared toward suicide prevention and helping callers in need access critical treatment services.
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What’s happened in one Pa. manufactured home community isn’t unique
Residents of manufactured home communities around Pennsylvania are partnering with others to press for a law that would protect them from sharp rent hikes.
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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries campaigns for Bob Brooks in Bethlehem
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday unveiled the party’s Fighting for an Affordable America agenda, as he kicked off 100 days until the midterm elections and works to focus voter attention ahead of November.
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Pa. joins lawsuit against Trump administration after it put conditions on receiving disaster funding
More than two dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.
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The Pennsylvania budget quietly relaxed a standard for lead reporting in schools
State law does not require schools to test for lead, as long as the topic is discussed at a public meeting annually.
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Eight years after deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, Tree of Life rabbi bids farewell
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, 70, is retiring this month as spiritual leader of Tree of Life, a position he had assumed just over a year before the shattering events of Oct. 27, 2018.
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Doug Mastriano’s nomination as ambassador to Slovakia advances in the US Senate
The former GOP gubernatorial candidate was tapped for the post by President Donald Trump in May.
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A bird hanging from a tree? York County firefighters help rescue endangered heron
The black crowned night heron is an endangered species in Pennsylvania and protected under the state law because of what the Game Commission describes as “a decline in numbers and size of Pennsylvania colonies.”
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From the law to Broadway, Ken Ludwig’s journey brings him back to York
Tickets for An Evening With Ken Ludwig’s “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” are on sale now. The cost is $100.
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DHS drops appeal for proposed ICE detention centers in Berks and Schuylkill counties
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security withdrew its appeal of the Shapiro Administration’s administrative orders that forbid federal officials from connecting local water or sewer infrastructure need to convert the warehouses to detention centers.
