The city that produced “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” is a lot different from the City of Brotherly Love. But Pennsylvania’s biggest cities share ambitious efforts to save people in addiction.

There was no shortage of speculation at the Pennsylvania Society gathering in N.Y. about the next big elections on the horizon after 2020: races for governor and U.S. Senate in 2022.

A Pennsylvania-based man who authorities describe as the highest-level dealer in a drug trafficking network has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his role in a Delaware man's fatal overdose.

Since last month’s historic election in Delaware County, Democrats have been working to try to smooth their transition to power and to start shaping a new direction for the county.

Over several years, state inspectors accused the homes run by State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell's nonprofit of infractions including disrepair, mismanaging residents’ finances and errors in administering residents’ medications, records obtained by The Inquirer show.

The New Jersey Department of Education notified 13 school districts they will receive additional financial assistance totaling $15 million. Camden is still waiting for word on its request to close a budget gap.

The commutation of Sheppard's sentence was one of eight Gov. Wolf approved Thursday.

Since the law took effect in April, 574 accused domestic abusers in Philadelphia were ordered to hand over their weapons, but only 62 of them complied.

Love it or loathe it, Pennsylvania Society was about tradition in the state’s politics. Now that is being remade by Donald Trump's controversial and unconventional presidency.

New Jersey may soon ban plastic and paper bags, along with styrofoam containers. It would be one of the strictest laws in the country.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney told City Council he would not sign pending legislation to trim the city’s controversial 10-year tax abatement without a change that would delay implementation. Council President Darrell Clarke offers to do so.

The West Philadelphia Democrat's resignation, effective Dec. 13, means a special election to fill her seat could be held as soon as February.

Norristown was one of more than a dozen urban school districts across the state — including Upper Darby and Pottstown — that held news conferences Thursday to draw attention to funding disparities facing districts that are also burdened with increasing costs for charters each year.