A new poll reveals a stunning political reversal in Pennsylvania: Democrats are abandoning their senator John Fetterman while Republicans are rallying behind him.
Five Pennsylvania House Republicans crossed party lines Tuesday to support a Democrat-backed universal background check bill, which passed by a narrow 104–99 vote. The measure requires background checks for all gun sales, including private transactions.
A bill seeking to ban “machine gun conversion devices,” also known as “Glock switches,” was defeated in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday. The vote, nearly along party lines, came after hours of emotional and intense debate, and ultimately failed by a single vote—handed to Republicans by a Democrat crossing the aisle.
Bernville, Pennsylvania Mayor Shawn Raup-Konsavage (D) is facing severe backlash after he posted on social media that he is “glad” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is dead. His comment read, “This is what MAGA represents, This is what Trump lowered flags for. If this represents you then I don’t want to hear that you are offended that I’m glad he is gone.”
A Pennsylvania man’s emotional support alligator has been banned from Walmart after stunned shoppers photographed the reptile roaming the aisles in West Brownsville.
Pennsylvania experienced its worst year for electric reliability in over three decades, with 71 major outage events reported in 2024, according to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s latest Electric Service Reliability Report. The sharp increase from 49 events in 2023 highlights the growing strain on the state’s aging electrical infrastructure, compounded by severe weather and poor vegetation management.
A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is pushing a sweeping plan to eliminate school property taxes by creating a multibillion-dollar education endowment fund. The proposal would replace the roughly $16 billion collected annually from taxpayers for public schools.
A new analysis from the Commonwealth Foundation finds that Pennsylvania is violating federal and state law by failing to properly identify persistently dangerous schools and provide students with safer alternatives. The analysis criticizes the state's reliance on arrest data rather than violent incident reports to determine which schools qualify as dangerous.
