Marc Levy | Associated Press

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled Legislature is taking its case to voters, in twin constitutional amendments on the primary ballot that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, whether another pandemic or a natural disaster.

Sean Parnell announced his candidacy Tuesday for the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat.

The memorial to the people who died on United Airlines Flight 93 is hard to find on a map as the Sept, 11, 2001, terrorist attack itself slips deeper into the nation’s memory. Now, the families of Flight 93's 40 passengers and crew members are starting an annual award to reward selfless acts of heroism and educate the public.

Republicans wanting a stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law.

The sponsor, Rep. Jim Cox of Berks County, said many employers are having trouble finding workers. Lawmakers suspended the work-search requirement through 2020, but Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has extended the waiver administratively.

An expanding fight over gun laws in Pennsylvania is drawing in the Legislature, the state’s highest court and the state’s biggest cities, while also featuring prominently in the three-way Republican primary race for a state Supreme Court seat.

For the first time, prominent Republican state senators on Wednesday put their support behind legislation in Pennsylvania to change the law to allow now-adult victims of child sexual abuse to sue their perpetrators or institutions that did not prevent it when it happened years or decades ago.

The board of the $64 billion Public School Employees’ Retirement System voted Monday night to raise pension contribution rates starting next July 1 for about 94,000 public school employees, all hired in 2011 or after.

If Trump-backing former congressman Lou Barletta runs, he would likely be considered the front-runner in what could be a crowded GOP primary next spring.

Last year’s presidential election keeps coming up on the campaign trail in this year's Republican primary for an open seat on Pennsylvania's high court.