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Tuesday marked the deadline for candidates to file election petitions for the May 16 primary, and all signs point to spirited races up and down the ballot.

Meet the people strengthening the Steel City in politics, business, nonprofits and more.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Lehigh County Controllers Office released a landmark healthcare audit that exposed failures of the healthcare industry and demonstrates...

On today’s episode of The Confluence: Allegheny County’s newly appointed controller tells us his priorities as he joins county government and becomes the newest member of the Jail Oversight Board; after the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center closed last September, researchers asked some who had spent time at Shuman what alternatives to the center they want created; and a look at the reaction to the renaming of Heinz Field, now that the lease between the condiment company and football team is c...

/PRNewswire/ -- On April 26th, District Attorney Jim Martin announced that he would be deploying Lehigh County detectives on primary day, May 17th to surveil...

/PRNewswire/ -- On April 26th, District Attorney Jim Martin announced that he would be deploying Lehigh County detectives on primary day, May 17th to surveil...

Allegheny County’s 7% hotel room rental tax collections, ravaged by the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, began to bounce back in 2021, county data show. But a proposal to add a new fee on top of that tax is shortsighted, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “Given that

Julie Haertsch, a perennial failed Republican candidate for various offices, has no experience overseeing elections.

Democratic candidates are contesting three open county row office positions on the ballot this year, the first time the party has competed for every open seat in two decades. The

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