COVID nursing home deaths claim is Pennsylvania governor campaign trail mainstay
Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, often makes the baseless allegation that Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes caused thousands of deaths.
Pennsylvania to begin fiscal year without a budget
Pennsylvania’s new fiscal year will begin without a state budget in place. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and top Republican lawmakers plan to work through the deadline to hammer out a roughly $42 billion spending plan whose details were still largely being kept secret.
Bills on poll watchers, earlier presidential primary advance in Pennsylvania
Proposals to hold Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries in March rather than April and to permit poll watchers to operate outside the counties where they live are advancing in the Legislature.
Unlikely duo: Pennsylvania Democrats aim to form united front
The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year. John Fetterman could help the party keep control of the U.S. Senate.
Pennsylvania House GOP moves to bottle up 4 gun safety proposals
A Pennsylvania House committee is voluntarily relinquishing its control over four bills to address gun violence including bills regarding safe gun storage, an assault weapons ban, a red flag bill and a measure to give local governments power to enact their own protections.
3 Pa. House Republicans announce plan to draft articles of impeachment against Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner
Three Pennsylvania House Republicans, who do not represent constituents in Philadelphia, have announced intentions to file articles of impeachment against DA Larry Krasner
Justices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania
The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.
House votes to erase 'homosexuality' from Pennsylvania state crimes code
The Pennsylvania House voted unanimously on Wednesday to erase the word “homosexuality” from the definition of prohibited sexual acts in the state Crimes Code.
Oz wins Pennsylvania Senate primary ahead of showdown with Fetterman
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won Pennsylvania's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Wednesday, narrowly defeating former hedge fund CEO David McCormick after a dayslong statewide recount buffeted by litigation that reached the nation's highest court.
McCormick concedes to Oz in Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary
Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick conceded the Republican primary in Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, ending his campaign Friday night as he acknowledged an ongoing statewide recount wouldn't give him enough votes to make up the deficit.
'I almost died,' Fetterman says as Senate campaign heats up
John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, who is recovering from a stroke, said Friday that he almost died from the episode after ignoring warning signs for years and a doctor's advice to take blood thinners.
Pennsylvania court orders contested ballots counted in Senate primary
A state court agreed Thursday night in a ballot-counting lawsuit with the campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Supreme Court order could affect Pennsylvania Senate count
The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily blocking the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. The order Tuesday could affect the tight Republican Senate primary between former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Pennsylvania leaders, activists gather for End Gun Violence rally
Gov. Wolf, activists and religious leaders gathered in Philadelphia to rally against gun violence and call out lack of leadership on gun safety measures.
Recount begins in Pa.'s GOP primary for Senate
Montour County began the recount Friday, one of seven counties that said they would start right away. Most of Pennsylvania's 67 counties have said they will begin next week, with a Wednesday deadline to start.
Recount cranks up in Pennsylvania's GOP primary for Senate
With just 910 votes separating the two leading candidates in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, counties were preparing Thursday to start the recount between celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
Pa. Senate primary: Oz, McCormick race heads into recount
Pennsylvania’s top election official says the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a recount.
Pennsylvania candidates offer little consensus on gun measures
After the tragedy in Texas, calls for more gun control grow louder. But, among Pennsylvania candidates for office, there is little consensus.
GOP intervenes in Pa. Senate race vote-counting lawsuit
The national and state Republican parties are taking the side of celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck GOP primary contest for U.S. Senate and opposing a lawsuit by ex-hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
McCormick sues over counting mail ballots in Pennsylvania Senate race
McCormick's lawsuit, filed after hours, asks the state's Commonwealth Court to require counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that lack a required handwritten date on the return envelope. It is the first — but likely not the last — lawsuit in the contest between Oz and McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO.