Marc Levy | Associated Press

Republican lawmakers who've spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in the major battleground states of Pennsylvania and Arizona.

The refusal thus far of Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro to disclose who paid for his inaugural party has exposed the gap in state law that lets governors in Pennsylvania escape the kind of transparency sometimes required elsewhere

Democrat Josh Shapiro has become the 48th governor of Pennsylvania at the inaugural ceremony at the state Capitol.

Pennsylvania’s public safety agencies will be led by long-serving state employees who have risen through the ranks. That was announced Friday by the incoming Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro as he fills out his Cabinet ahead of his swearing-in.

Two just-retired state lawmakers will help fill the Cabinet of the incoming governor, Josh Shapiro. The Democrat also says he'll pluck nominees from the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University.

Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate are kicking off the new legislative session by pushing through a trio of proposed constitutional amendments that sparked a partisan fight and poses a challenge to the incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro

The state Senate voted to postpone the trial after a court ruling that said the impeachment articles don't meet the constitutionally required standard.

Dr. Val Arkoosh, an anesthesiologist who led Pennsylvania’s third-most populous county through the pandemic, will be nominated to lead the Department of Human Services.

A school superintendent who won Pennsylvania superintendent of the year will be Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro’s nominee for secretary of education.

A Democrat who promised to govern as an independent was elected speaker of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday on the strength of about a dozen GOP votes.