The state House of Representatives’ passage of a one-house budget means fiscal sanity now rests in the hands of the state Senate. House members passed a budget that is nearly identical to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s $53.3 billion budget proposal in a largely party line vote. Five Republicans ...

For more than half a century, the United States has been celebrating Earth Day. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it was in the spring of 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to force legal and regulatory mechanisms to protect our natural world. Today, our ...

About 10 weeks ago, Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his 2026-27 state budget proposal. The budget is due June 30 — about 11 weeks away. As close to the mid-point as we are, we hope our lawmakers are making substantive progress on deciding what the state budget should look like. We can reiterate ...

We’re not surprised by estimates showing Warren County’s population has fallen. People leaving, or those who remain not having enough children to keep population levels high, is the new normal not just for Warren County or other rural Pennsylvania counties but rural counties in New York ...

Whether you loved him or hated him, you cannot deny the influence Viktor Orban has had on the world during his time in politics — nor the iron grip he had on his own country’s electoral machine. And yet, on Sunday, the people of Hungary decided that, after 16 years in office, enough was ...

For weeks the 626 residents of Tidioute have lived under a boil water order. An advisory was originally issued March 18 and later reissued on April 6 after conditions within the system failed to stabilize. At the center of the advisory is a reported loss of positive water pressure, caused ...