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Cheers: Brownsville’s Jolena Quarzo and Ringgold’s Ryan Pajak won individual titles last week at the WPIAL Class AA Cross Country Championship. The gold was Quarzo’s second and Pajak’s first. Cheers

Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice

In an unusual arrangement, the state Senate Republican Campaign Committee has been paying its new chairman, Sen. David Argall, $1,000 a month, according to campaign finance reports.

Just a week after the Wolf administration announced that the state prison population had declined to its lowest level in decades — due largely to a series of bipartisan criminal

The Pennsylvania Senate has unanimously passed a bill to ease farmers’ ability to haul large loads on the road.

Federal - House Committee to Vote on Federal Cannabis Legalization - The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and...

As skilled nursing facilities that provide care for ventilator-dependent patients across Pennsylvania closed their doors due to lack of state funding over roughly the past two years, Transitions Healthcare Washington

There have been no new COVID-19 cases or deaths reported for more than a week in Greene County as of Friday, the state Health Department said. The cases remained at 3,368 since July 8 in Greene, where 42 deaths have been linked to the virus. State Sen. Camera Bartolotta said Greene did a good job of rollout of the vaccines. She said many Greene residents went to Ohio and West Virginia to get vaccinated while Pennsylvania was slow in distributing the drugs. “I think that’s great,”...

The Commonwealth Foundation, a Harrisburg-based free-market think tank, recently released a report on the impacts of taxpayer and expenditure limits, or TELs, in relation to policies concerning tax increases and government spending. At its core, TELs in principle are structured to rein in state spending by tying annual increases to a standard measurement or cap. The foundation’s report asserts effective TELs are able to reduce the rate of annual budget growth by about 1%. In a statement, ...

 | Print this article Republican senators in Pennsylvania were briefed on a plan for an audit of the 2020 election. The private briefing, conducted by state Sen. Doug Mastriano on Wednesday, is the clearest sign yet that lawmakers in the Keystone State are serious about fulfilling the wishes of former President Donald Trump and his supporters who are pressing for copycats of a controversial audit in Arizona. Mastriano even obtained legal advice from a Philadelphia-based law firm ab...