Mark Scolforo | Associated Press

An inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania is being stopped just as it was about to get underway.

A plan to redraw lines for Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of population shifts is advancing in the Legislature with a partisan vote that signals lawmakers have more redistricting work ahead.

State House Republicans who just lost a key vote on new preliminary legislative district maps moved Monday to regain more control of the process. They voted to advance a GOP friendly constitutional amendment that would utterly revamp Pennsylvania's redistricting process.

Pennsylvania is sitting on a fat budget reserve, a healthy and growing surplus in the current budget year, and billions in unspent federal coronavirus relief funds.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says the smell of marijuana can be a factor police use to justify a search without a warrant but can’t be the sole basis for it.

Pennsylvania’s top statewide elections official is warning legislative leaders that delays in drawing new General Assembly district lines may require them to push back next year's spring primary election.

Pennsylvania’s highest court is putting a final nail into the coffin of a proposed victims’ rights constitutional amendment that state voters supported by a large margin more than two years ago but which has never gone into effect.

Pennsylvania’s highest court is putting a final nail into the coffin of a proposed victims’ rights constitutional amendment that state voters supported by a large margin more than two years ago but has never gone into effect.

The Legislative Reapportionment Commission is advancing new preliminary Pennsylvania state House and Senate maps over objections from the state House's Republican leader.

The five-person commission drawing new district lines for Pennsylvania's General Assembly will hold a voting meeting later this week. A state Senate Democratic spokeswoman says the subject will be preliminary maps for the state House and Senate. The new maps are being drawn with 2020 Census data.