Rock Spring Water Company has urged its Centre County customers to consider forming a cooperative to take over the system instead of completing the regulator-ordered sale to Pennsylvania American Water, whose terms remain unsettled.

A DEP complaint inspection found a BKV OPR LLC shale gas well venting gas with a known casing and cement failure in Wyoming County, according to PA Environment Digest's running well-integrity series.

DEP confirmed a gas leak in a gathering pipeline running from a conventional well owned by Mid East Oil Co. in Unity Township, Westmoreland County.

Sen. Jon Husted's (R-Ohio) bid to quickly pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a data center bill, was thwarted Thursday by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), who deemed it insufficient.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is spending floor days on a college sports NIL bill while permitting reform talks have produced no breakthrough, leaving vulnerable Republicans without a costs message.

Both parties have booked ads in 43 districts, with Florida's 25th, Iowa's 1st and North Carolina's 1st each topping $30 million from July 1 to Election Day, per AdImpact data.

House Republicans broke early for the campaign season, still jittery on affordability

House Republicans left Washington early for an extended campaign season after a week of affordability-driven activity spanning a war powers resolution, gas tax talk and data center legislation.

Philadelphia's board of ethics greenlit unlimited spending by political parties in coordination with their preferred candidates, a change the Inquirer reports could sharply increase party power in Democratic primaries.

Four Pennsylvanians with intellectual and developmental disabilities filed a class action Wednesday challenging relative-caregiver and out-of-state travel limits the Shapiro administration reimposed after Commonwealth Court voided them as regulations.

Norcross sues the Philadelphia Inquirer for $100 million

George Norcross filed a five-count defamation suit in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas seeking $100 million, centered on a top editor's notes from a 2019 off-the-record interview that reached state prosecutors.

Major credit-rating firms have upgraded New Jersey after the state fully funded its annual worker-pension obligations in recent budgets, upgrades that typically lower borrowing costs for taxpayers.

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Konnor Griffin hit a two-run double and Oneil Cruz followed with a two-run single in a five-run second, and Henry Davis added a two-run homer; Khristian Curtis gave up one run in 3.1 innings.

Pittsburgh opened its 2026-27 training camp Thursday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex with 69 players invited, as Sidney Crosby begins a franchise-record 22nd season alongside Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang.