(The Center Square) - With a mid-October time frame in mind, law enforcement leaders in Pennsylvania are pondering the fate of an estimated 70,000 so-called "skill games" that the state's highest court has found to be illegal gambling machines.

(The Center Square) - State lawmakers who are associated with a taxpayer-funded agency gathering information on the controversial data center issue showed up Tuesday for a prearranged look at a high-profile site - and weren't allow in the data center.

(The Center Square) - An estimated 120-plus inmates serving life sentences from Allegheny County are among groups potentially affected by what one prosecutor calls a new "land of the unknown" in Pennsylvania judicial matters involving second-degree murder.

(The Center Square) - On a day of intense political finger-pointing in Harrisburg, the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to extend its stay on the application of a ruling concerning sentences for second-degree murder.

(The Center Square) - The tiny legs of smiling, blue-eyed Gwen Sharkey propel her baby walker about the kitchen floor as her mother wonders about devalued property, electromagnetic fields, and a potential threat to her 'miracle baby.'

(The Center Square) - Lawmakers have less than three months to take some sort of action concerning the estimated 70,000 "skill games" in the state before a stayed Supreme Court decision stirs up a potential political hornet's nest.

(The Center Square) - The "balance" in Pennsylvania's new state budget for 2026-27 is a bipartisan illusion created by moving numbers around on spreadsheets and ignoring potentially serious ramifications in the future, according to a lawmakers who voted against it…

(The Center Square) - Thursday evening, at least 600 residents concerned about a data center proposal packed a middle school auditorium in eastern Pennsylvania - the latest of many local meetings across the state jammed with people worried about such…

(The Center Square) - Bridging a deficit in part by delaying some payments and reclaiming money from what they called the "couch cushions" of state government, lawmakers on Sunday approved a $50.8 billion budget for 2026-27 that immediately got the…

(The Center Square) - State lawmakers headed back to Harrisburg on Saturday for scheduled weekend voting sessions that appear likely to be focused on attempts to get an already late 2026-27 budget put into place.

(The Center Square) - An unsolicited letter from a data center developer that dangles $10,000 for every household in a northeastern Pennsylvania township - but only if the data center gets built - calls the money a "grant" but Ed…

(The Center Square) - The state House on Thursday gave bipartisan approval to revoking a sales tax exemption for equipment for data centers, with one supporter equating the industry frenzy in Pennsylvania to an irresponsible and speculative "gold rush."

(The Center Square) – Municipalities would be able to bring about a six-month "pause" in considering data center proposals under a bill that passed the state House with nearly unanimous support on Wednesday.

(The Center Square) - A large throng of residents from across the state who are fed up with the data center frenzy filled the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday with cheers and speeches of support for a proposed three-year moratorium on…

(The Center Square) - Two powerful forces, money and silence, have been stirring hearts and minds as well as controversy in a 240-year-old township near a scenic bend of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania.

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward thinks the state is getting the short end of the energy stick because of a "cap" put on a portion of the electricity market, and she assigns some blame…

(The Center Square) – A new Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that essentially found the estimated 70,000 unregulated and untaxed "skill games" in the state to be slot machines – taxable by law at 52% – had the attention of many…

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania counties last year lost millions of dollars and domestic violence programs in the state laid off workers, some of whom never returned to those jobs, as a result of state leaders missing the budget deadline…

(The Center Square) - A fight has broken out in northeastern Pennsylvania over the future of lovely, forested Clinton Township - a future that could include 20 data center buildings and two power plants - but some residents are dismayed…

(The Center Square) - Gov. Josh Shapiro and a pair of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday made separate announcements tied to the continuing wave of data center proposals that have stirred controversy and opposition in many parts of the state.