Fayette County鈥檚 commissioners voted in favor of entering into a contract with the U.S. Department of Justice to house federal prisoners at the county jail. Commissioner Scott Dunn said the jail will be used to house prisoners who are awaiting trial. According to the proposed contract, U.S. ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro visited Mt. Lebanon Fire Department Monday to press lawmakers in Harrisburg to approve his budget, which includes $30 million in grants for fire companies across Pennsylvania. Top of mind for Shapiro and other speakers at Monday鈥檚 event was the recent arson at the ...
The state Department of Transportation secretary spoke in Washington Thursday urging the Pennsylvania Legislature to pass Gov. Josh Shapiro鈥檚 proposed budget calling for an additional $292 million for mass transit. Mike Carroll was joined by Sheila Gombita, the executive director for ...
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats. Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy ...
Southwestern Pennsylvania does not come close to rivaling regions like northern Virginia or the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., for its number of federal employees, but the large-scale layoffs of the federal workforce that have been initiated by the White House and the ...
In his annual budget address, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Pennsylvania is 鈥渙n the rise,鈥� but the proposed $51.5 billion budget got a rise out of local Republican lawmakers who characterized it as being top-heavy on spending. 鈥淭he budget proposal is more of the same,鈥� said state Rep. Tim ...
