All steel manufacturers would qualify for tax credits, with those that invest in electric arc furnaces and environmental upgrades eligible for an additional credit. Pisciottano also wants to reduce the state sales tax for Pennsylvania-made steel.

The Environmental Protection Agency offered coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to apply for a two-year exemption on certain air pollution emission standards. U.S. Steel is one of the companies that applied.

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and slamming his hands on a desk while meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union.

The legalization of recreational marijuana use took a big step forward in Pennsylvania this week, as the state House passed a 173-page bill to permit use of the drug. But as the question shifts from whether, to how legalization will happen, the reform could still end up getting burnt.

The head of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs told a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday that a potential move to cut 83,000 jobs at the agency was "a goal" — not a concrete plan.

Five Democrats joined all 27 Republicans to send the bill to the Pa. House. Both House Democratic leadership and Gov. Josh Shapiro oppose the bill.

Starting in July, Bellefonte will offer residents public transit services through Centre County Transportation. It's replacing CATA, the Centre Area Transportation Authority.

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War."

The Blair County NAACP branch president is stepping down after almost four years in the position to focus on his family and work.

Top Pa. lawmakers and executives, many of whom are veterans themselves, hold mixed views of the potential VA workforce reduction.