Young students honored for their school bus safety posters

​Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), along with Pennsylvania school bus safety advocates, honored four students for communicating important school bus safety messages through their entries in the 2020 School Bus Safety Poster Contest. The students, in kindergarten through eighth grade, were mailed... Read More.

Biden and Pence both coming to Pennsylvania today and Saturday

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fresh off visits by President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, the battleground state of Pennsylvania will again host Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence in the coming days. Biden will attend events in Bucks County... Read More.

Officials urge Pennsylvanians to take COVID-19 seriously

Harrisburg, PA - As a fall resurgence of COVID-19 becomes more evident in Pennsylvania and across the country, Governor Tom Wolf and Sec. of Health Dr. Rachel Levine presented an update on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard and case data, and asked Pennsylvanians... Read More.

Voter registration hits record high in Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, PA (AP) — Monday was the last day in Pennsylvania to register to vote in the Nov. 3 election in which the presidential battleground state is playing a central role in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Voter... Read More.

Second-highest daily COVID-19 cases in PA reported over weekend

Harrisburg, PA (AP) — Pennsylvania is reporting 1,857 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest daily total since the beginning of pandemic, days after officials said the commonwealth was seeing a “fall resurgence” of the coronavirus. The numbers announced Saturday by the state health department are exceeded... Read More.

Pennsylvania sees another big monthly drop in jobless rate

Harrisburg, PA (AP) — Unemployment rates are falling in Pennsylvania as more people go back to work. Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate began to look like the rest of the nation’s in September, taking another steep drop from its post-pandemic high. State figures released Friday said Pennsylvania’s unemployment... Read More.