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A Pennsylvania law that delivers automatic pay raises for state officials will pay dividends next year. The law will give more than 1,300 officials a pay raise of 3.5% in 2024. That includes Gov. Josh Shapiro, 253 lawmakers and seven state Supreme Court justices.

The fate of the largest library in Bradford County, Pennsylvania is in the hands of three county commissioners. Some of the commissioners initially wanted to close the library due to its cost to the county.

Passage of the state budget could not have come soon enough for some public education groups.

Authorities say three passengers died after a bus carrying up to 50 people struck a vehicle on an interstate in Pennsylvania.

The PA state House will be tied 101 to 101 between Democrats and Republicans.

Interstate 95 was set to reopen Friday less than two weeks after a deadly collapse in Philadelphia, a quicker-than-expected rebuild.

Citing potential decreases to public school funding, Democrats, education advocates, and unions oppose a bill that would create "lifeline scholarships."

Pennsylvania’s Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved a measure by a close vote Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2026.

Rainfall has slowed across central Pennsylvania, leading the Department of Environmental Protection to declare a drought watch.

All seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania.