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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania House threatened Friday...

Citizen group Protect PT’s argument for why zoning hearing board decisions allowing additional gas well fracking in Penn Township should be overturned contained a number of elements, but focused on a central question. Should a legal body be permitted to simply declare that an expert witness’s testimony is not credible

pray@altoonamirror.com The Pennsylvania Su­­preme Court has upheld the termination of parental rights of a Bedford County man, but the 5-2 decision issued March 26 raised several questions that remain to be answered. The state’s highest court was reviewing a case in which a father was challenging a decision by Bedford County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas S. Ling to terminate his parental rights. The father and mother broke off their relationship shortly after their child’s birth eight years ago. For three years, the father maintained contact with the child and paid support, but th...

Key facts in 2020’s $100,000 Club of Pa. state government Updated Feb 24, 2021; Posted Feb 24, 2021 Gov. Tom Wolf is the CEO of Pennsylvania state government but his earnings, which he donates to charity, aren't the highest in the commonwealth's workforce. Commonwealth Media Services/file Facebook Share Since Gov. Tom Wolf is the head of Pennsylvania state government, it’s logical to think he’d top the list of its highest earners but that is not the case. In fact, the governor, who earned $195,457, ranked as having the 300th highest earnings among state government employees in 2020 (W...

HARRISBURG – In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has concurred with a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation appeal looking to reverse a decision from the Commonwealth Court – which had found an unmined coal estate adjacent to highway construction was illegally seized by state transport authorities through eminent domain. The Commonwealth Court decided in March 2019 that a de facto taking of land on which the coal estate was located had occurred, when PennDOT undertook construction of Highway 219 in southern Somerset County in 2010, to the detriment of Penn Pocahont...