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(The Center Square) – Representatives of Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities told lawmakers recently that when it comes to addressing racial disparities within their faculty, they'd prefer to continue working on changing from within rather than changes in...

Harrisburg, PA - Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Teresa Miller today joined Sen. Pat Browne, Sen. Art Haywood, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Delaware County Councilman Kevin Madden to encourage individuals and families in southeast Pennsylvania who...

HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration on Monday said that starting Tuesday, all Pennsylvania adults may schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments, and the state has set a goal of getting 80% of eligible adults vaccinated. Previously, the state’s timetable set April 19 for...

Geisinger awaits lab results to confirm the conclusion of its director of infectious diseases: That a more contagious variant of COVID-19 reached the Valley. In data last updated April 1, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 431 cases in...

State Sens. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) and Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) introduced legislation Monday to promote economic development and generate jobs while supporting alternative energy production and use in Pennsylvania. The proposed legislation would...

The first round in the ongoing lawsuit challenging the Delaware River Basin Commission's authority to ban fracking in its jurisdictional waters has gone to the State Democratic Caucus. A knockout blow could be landing as soon as April. In this file photo made with a...

Every adult in Pennsylvania will soon qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine starting in April. The announcement came during a State Department of Health press briefing this morning. Starting today, grocery store workers, agricultural workers and law enforcement will be...

As the commonwealth expands to Phase 1B, many people who work as first responders and food service employees are black and brown people. Officials say with that sector now eligible for vaccinations, it will have a positive impact on racial equity. Pennsylvania is...

WEST CHESTER — Pennsylvania officials announced Wednesday the state is accelerating vaccine strategy to target industry workers, just as the number of those testing positive for coronavirus continues to climb in Chester County. Last week, 603 people tested positive...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has announced it’s scrapping a much-despised plan to establish two mass PEMA sites to handle vaccination in the populous counties around Philadelphia. The news came as the Health Department unveiled plans Wednesday to expand vaccine...

Pennsylvania will soon open the vaccine floodgates. By April 19, all Pennsylvanian adults ages 16 and older will be eligible to be vaccinated against the virus that has been a scourge on society for more than a year, the Department of Health announced Wednesday....

As Pennsylvania looks to expand vaccine eligibility in April, two controversial state-run mass vaccination sites that were to cover Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties have been cancelled. Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam confirmed to reporters...

HARRISBURG -- All adults will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines by April 19 and front-line workers -- including police and firefighters, grocery workers and those in food production -- became immediately eligible for the vaccines, under an updated distribution...

At the request of state Senators Vincent Hughes (D- Philadelphia), Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia), and Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia), the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee will hold a virtual public hearing on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Here are the highlights to the March’s Springfield Township Board of Commissioner Workshop and Business meetings held on March 8 and 10, respectively. Among other things, the Board also discussed the Rotary Club’s plans for an Oktoberfest and a Winter Festival and...

More than a week after a gunman in Atlanta killed eight people, six of them Asian-American women, Democrats in the state House and Senate rallied Wednesday in support of Pennsylvania’s Asian-American residents, and called for action on a long-sought package of...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Wednesday, Pennsylvania state lawmakers took a stance against hate. They gathered at the Capitol Complex in Harrisburg to stand in solidarity with the Asian-American Pacific Islander community and other vulnerable groups. Their show of support comes...

State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) today applauded Governor Wolf for the Commonwealth’s commitment to solar energy and called on the General Assembly to take up legislation to modernize the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS). “The Governor’s...

Harrisburg, Pa. – Senate Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to form a task force on law enforcement response to large-scale civil rights demonstrations. Senate Res. 52 establishes a 20-member task force to identify best practices for law enforcement to...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health accused Southeastern county leaders of “wasting precious time” with their request that the state distribute coronavirus vaccine doses to county-run clinics rather than sending them to a single mass vaccination site for the entire...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered plenty of party-based antagonism in state government, but a bipartisan Vaccine Task Force is working together amicably, officials said. “Coming into the task force, I had no clue,” said Rep. Tim O’Neal, R-Washington. “I didn’t know...

Pennsylvania residents who are currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine will get their appointments scheduled by the end of March, Gov. Tom Wolf and members of the state’ COVID-19 task force said Friday, as they also announced targeted initiatives to vaccinate such...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Gov. Tom Wolf announced a significant expansion of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 vaccination effort on Friday. Wolf said he’s confident that the commonwealth will meet President Joe Biden’s directive to make everyone vaccine-eligible by May 1. Wolf says...

JESSICA KARTALIJA: Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jessica Kartalija. Yuki is off today. Governor Tom Wolf today announced a significant expansion of Pennsylvania's vaccination effort. He says he is confident the state will meet President Joe Biden's directive to make...

Harrisburg, PA — Setting the bar high. Governor Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 Task Force are laying out goals to vastly expand who will get the vaccine and by what timeline. By the end of the month, all of Phase 1A and more first responders will have access to the...

In January 2015, Alex Rojas Garcia, a student at Temple University, was shot 15 times and left for dead on a cold and lonely street in Philadelphia. In the six years since, his mother, Aleida Garcia, has taken her tragedy and turned it into fuel for a crusade to fight...

In the midst of a gun violence crisis and surging homicides overwhelming Black Philadelphians, elected officials and police brass say now is the time for the Republican-controlled state Legislature to strike down the state’s “pre-emption” law that prohibits local...

Pennsylvania's new COVID-19 vaccine task force has been meeting for less than two weeks, but legislative members say the group is already making strides to improve the state's struggling vaccination program. Republican state Sen. Ryan Aument of Lancaster, one of four...

Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that Pennsylvania may launch a centralized tool to help residents sign up to receive COVID-19 immunizations, a move that lawmakers are increasingly touting as an alternative to the current patchwork of registration systems run by the state’s...

A great many people in Northwest Philadelphia and the adjacent suburbs were undoubtedly delighted over the Biden/Harris victory in Pennsylvania in November, but I doubt if anyone was more exhilarated than Andrea Koplove. That's because Koplove, 45, a Chestnut Hill...

Harrisburg, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the newly formed joint task force with the legislature today reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring that Pennsylvanians will have access to second doses of COVID-19 vaccine within the CDC-recommended...