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A law enacted last week will bring campaign finance limits to Allegheny County starting in 2025. Candidates seeking elected office in Allegheny County government now face no limits on how much money people can donate to their campaigns, allowing corporate interests, wealthy people, labor unions and national groups to pour
Allegheny County Council voted Tuesday to place new limits on political contributions.
Allegheny County Council approved the county's first billion-dollar budget Tuesday night.
A contested bill to ban fracking on public parks has safely cleared county council but could still be snuffed out by the executive’s veto stamp.
Allegheny County Council held a public meeting Thursday about a bill that proposes banning natural-gas drilling, aka fracking, in the nine county parks. The hearing was met with great fanfare from local environmental activists. The bill was first introduced in 2021, and the effort has increased its support since then,