Harrisburg News

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering whether to impose a $100-per-resident tax on large municipalities that do not have their own police forces and instead rely entirely on state troopers.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering whether to impose a $100 head tax on large municipalities that don't have their own police forces and rely entirely on state troopers instead.

A state senator's aide has been suspended without pay because she allegedly made unauthorized credit card purchases in his name and misused his checking account.

A Pennsylvania appeals court is upholding a $4.5 million jury verdict against a truck manufacturer over an accident near Pittsburgh.

A fire in Harrisburg has been ruled arson. It started in a vacant home on the 1100 block of Derry Street.

The Constitution Party is suing Pennsylvania's state elections chief, saying its candidate is unfairly being denied a spot on the November presidential ballot.

A Mount Joy man was fighting for his life Sunday after he was shot multiple times early Saturday in Harrisburg, investigators said.

The state Legislature approved a statewide smoking ban in June. The law takes effect in less than two weeks, 90 days after it was signed by Gov.

Harrisburg police are looking for the gunman who shot and wounded a man Friday. It happened outside a home on the 1600 block of Naudain Street at about 6 p.m. The shooter told the 20-year-old Hershey man to ...

Voters' rights groups say they are concerned that some Pennsylvanians will be unable to vote on Election Day if electronic voting machines break down.

A 4-year-old boy is reportedly to blame for a fire in Harrisburg. It started around 3 p.m. Monday, inside an apartment at The Governer's Square Apartments in the 500 block of Woodbine Street.

According to Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed, it happened on the 1600 block of Naudain Street around 6pm Friday.

Police are looking for a Harrisburg man wanted in two burglaries which occurred in the 1200 Block of Derry Street.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - State officials are hoping to contain any worries about identity theft after more than 1,200 mailings containing the Social Security numbers of state welfare recipients were sent to the wrong ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A conservative think tank in Harrisburg is attacking the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for what it calls a culture of "power, patronage and politics." The Commonwealth Foundation unveiled a ...

Panelists at a health care forum on Wednesday agreed that Pennsylvania's health care system has serious gaps, but they had little consensus about how to improve it.

Bankruptcies in Pennsylvania shot up more than 10 percent over the past year, as a vicious mix of stagnant hiring, mounting credit card debt and rising mortgage payments spurred financial struggles.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with criminal homicide in the Feb.

A jury has awarded more than $2 million to the survivors of a central Pennsylvania man killed by a drunken driver four years ago.

A Harrisburg man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Lower Paxton Township Sunday morning.