Pennsylvania is now 100 days without a state budget, yet lawmakers appear no closer to reaching a deal. Frustrations are mounting in the Capitol.

House G-O-P leader Jesse Topper says the state must help scale up the energy industry, reform education and find ways to make social safety-net programs sustainable in the long run.

Meantime, Senate Democratic leader Jay Costa blames Republicans for failing to compromise on key issues, like funding public education funding and legalizing the adult use of cannabis.

Gov. Josh Shapiro used a Lackawanna County appearance to place blame on the state Senate.

More than 200 high school students protested the state budget impasse Wednesday, even during a steady morning rain in Lancaster County.

Less than a month after a deadly shootout that claimed the lives of York County police officers, there's another shootout involving police, this time in Franklin County. Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers are hospitalized and a suspect is dead after a shootout Wednesday night.

Enrollment at state-owned universities in Pennsylvania has taken a slight uptick.

And drivers are being advised to prepare for a major traffic disruption this weekend in Lancaster County. PennDOT crews are continuing a major improvement project at the interchange between US Routes 30 and 222.

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Stock trading by members of Congress has come under public scrutiny in recent years, U.S. Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania has profited from another type of market trading.

State officials have unveiled a new campaign to spread awareness of drink spiking.

Clearfield County will make one million dollars over five years - for acting as the middleman between ICE and the private contractor that operates the Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

Nine people have died in boating incidents so far this year in Pennsylvania - and seven of the victims were not wearing a life jacket.

Iron Hill Brewery has officially filed for bankruptcy, after abruptly closing all 16 locations in late September.

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is rolling out a new effort aimed at helping people with mental illness who commit low-level offenses, to avoid jail time. The program builds off the state’s Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative or LETI, originally created to address substance abuse.

Governor Josh Shapiro is stepping onto the international stage. Eight U.S. governors and two premiers of Canadian provinces elected Shapiro to lead a partnership overseeing the Great Lakes.

State House and Senate members held a joint public hearing to discuss artificial intelligence in education and workforce development.

Trout stocking season is now underway along Pennsylvania waterways.

Prosecutors are withdrawing DUI charges against a 37-year-old York Haven woman accused of hitting three people with her minivan at Harrisburg's Kipona Festival over Labor Day weekend.

Online casinos continue to power growth in the state’s gambling revenue. That’s according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s recently-released annual report, which showed a 27% increase in online casino revenue, over the last fiscal year.

Federal funding for housing is under threat - just as Berks County is facing record homelessness.

And a recycling company’s bankruptcy is leaving tons of discarded artificial turf across the state.

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