by Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 26, 2026 A pair of Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing legislation to make owners of idle mines accountable for repairing and preventing future environmen...

by Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 26, 2026 U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signed a federal disaster declaration for 17 Pennsylvania counties to assist growers affected by last mo...

Sydney Dunn and Tyler Sutherland were crowned as California Area High School’s prom king and queen on Saturday at Nemacolin Country Club in Beallsville. Submitted

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Tuesday denounced the most recent U.S. strikes as a sign of “bad faith and unreliability” as negotiations pressed on toward a possible deal to end the war, a...

Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: “The idea was that technology is the future, s...

by Tim Henderson, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 26, 2026 A surge in voluntary departure agreements in immigration courts is raising concerns that Trump administration tactics are unfairly pressuring i...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s air force targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, including in the country’s eastern Bekaa Valley, late on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump s...

One person was taken to a hospital following a shooting Monday night in McKeesport. According to reports from WTAE-TV, Allegheny County police responded around 8:30 p.m. to Harrison Village after rece...

by David Lightman, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 25, 2026 WASHINGTON — Higher electric rates? Massive data centers looming over neighborhoods? Ugly political fights over what to do about them? The fut...

by Shalina Chatlani, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 22, 2026 Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as th...

by Whitney Downard, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 21, 2026 Across the political spectrum, Pennsylvania’s leaders have repeatedly identified the ongoing housing shortage as one of the biggest hurdles f...

Local shop owners say younger consumers are looking for alternatives to streaming services. By MICHAEL VINSICK For the MVI In recent years, specifically post-COVID 19 pandemic, Generation Z and a mixt...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now,...

by Shauneen Miranda, Pennsylvania Capital-Star May 19, 2026 WASHINGTON — A coalition of Democratic attorneys general and governors sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday  over forthcoming re...

The detectives believed Isaac Smith. By PAULA REED WARD TribLive The then-25-year-old voluntarily arrived at Allegheny County Police headquarters on Sept. 13, 2021 — hours after the body of a woman wh...

MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles as the Trump admi...

By ALEXA ST. JOHN AND CHARLIE RIEDEL Associated Press MONTEZUMA, Kan. (AP) — Orville Williams has had a healthy wheat crop on his 2,600-acre farm in Montezuma, Kansas, every year since he was a teenag...

ROME (AP) — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-af...