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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A measure introduced by a South Hills lawmaker to increase the amount of money that can be donated to help military veterans when a resident renews their vehicle documents was approved unanimously by the Pennsylvania Senate. Sen. Devlin Robinson, R-Bridgeville, was the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 96, which increases the maximum donation to the Veterans’ Trust Fund to $5 for a one-year renewel for a driver’s license, state ID or vehicle registration; and $10 for a two-yea...

Toll roads are not a new concept. There were tolls collected in Babylon. Aristotle spoke of them in the ancient world. During the Middle Ages, they were common tools of both official and criminal collection. But now PennDOT is planning to expand its network of toll roads with the Pathways Major Bridge Public-Private Partnership (P3) Initiative — a $1.6 billion to $2.2 billion investment in rehabilitation of up to nine Interstate bridges, announced in November. One of those bridges will be on I-79 where it crosses Route 50. The project also would reconfigure the Bridgeville interchange to a ...

A proposal to toll the bridge on I-79 near the Bridgeville exit has stirred opposition from local elected officials.

PennDOT has unveiled a plan to widen an I-79 bridge over Route 50 and reconfigure the Bridgeville interchange there. But PennDOT first has to come up with a way to pay for the work, and officials are considering making that bridge and others toll bridges. The I-79 widening and interchange

The reaction of lawmakers in the region to Gov. Tom Wolf’s $40 billion budget proposal was about as cold as the temperature outside this time of year. State Rep. Josh Kail, a Beaver County Republican whose district includes part of Washington County, summed up the negative response when he described it as “taxes, taxes and more taxes.” “Unfortunately, instead of advancing pro-worker and pro-growth policies, we still have the same problems that we had when the governor was elected in 2014, and he’s still trying to use the same failed tax policy in response.” Wolf,...