The state’s Independent Fiscal Office is offering some troubling news. Projections for next year’s disbursements of natural gas impact fee revenues may be $94 million to $95 million less than the disbursements this year — which, if it pans out, would be the largest year-to-year decline ...

From her vantage point, Magisterial District Judge Tracy Powell looked out and saw a courtroom of troubled youths. Sets of curious adolescent eyes peered back at her as well as the law enforcement officers standing in the room. Seeing the officers in uniform, armed with guns and handcuffs ...

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat was the once dramatic and proud opening for ABC, which at one time was the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports Television.” The promotional video was recognizable with a skier perilously crashing as he reached the bottom of the jump on ...

As much as hunters statewide revered the archaic pink envelopes that they used to purchase their antlerless deer tags, they hated the new online sales system unveiled by the Pennsylvania Game Commission this week. With anything new, there will be hiccups. But five-hour wait times seemed a bit ...

The nation’s top auto-safety regulator deserves a good grade for its efforts on behalf of automatic emergency braking on new vehicles. However, too bad the same agency is so woefully slow many times in completing investigations into suspected vehicle defects that could put drivers at ...

Pennsylvania law requires the state government to fund services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism, along with a moral obligation to help provide for some of its most vulnerable citizens. It’s failing on both scores. At the same time that the state government has more than ...