HARRISBURG — Control of the Pennsylvania General Assembly is on the ballot in 2026, and a handful of seats will likely decide who has the power to help set policy in the Keystone State. Republicans have held the state Senate almost continuously for 45 years and hope to keep it that way come ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies in state court to help cover costs associated with climate change, an issue with potentially billions of dollars at stake. Key justices appeared wary about the potential sweep of ...
Artificial intelligence insiders are warning New York City’s leaders about dangers of the emerging technology, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting safety concerns. At a hearing of the New York City Council on Monday, recently departed employees of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind said the biggest tech companies are racing to create technology they do not understand how to control. With the Trump administration taking a passive approach and Congress proving itself inactive, state and city governments have been considering ways to regulate ...
The Altoona Blair County Development Corporation, in partnership with the Blair County Chamber’s Agriculture Committee, is celebrating the return of the Agriculture Career Days event. This year, the event will be held on Oct. 7 and 8 at the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park in Martinsburg. The event is open to all the seventh grade students in the Blair County public schools. The students will view 14 stations where professionals in the agriculture industry give presentations on what their jobs are and what type of schooling they had to get for that career. The careers range from ...
When someone claims to live in “central Pennsylvania,” what do they mean? It could be the area around the state capital, the forests of the Pennsylvania Wilds, a small Rust Belt city, or the rolling fields of Dutch Country. Or maybe they live near Penn State University, in the county ...
Pennsylvania’s state coffers saw a spike in corporate tax payments in September, a windfall that state officials said could be tied to companies making higher than expected payments due to surging profits from federal tariff refunds. The state collected $1.14 billion in corporate net income tax payments in September — 40% higher than the Independent Fiscal Office had projected and 65% more than the state collected from those taxes in the same month in 2025. September is one of the months in which corporations make their quarterly tax payments. “One factor contributing to the ...
