In 2006, Upper Pottsgrove voters approved a measure to increase the earned income tax to create a fund to purchase open space ...

Pennsylvania could soon join the ranks of “front-plater” states like New York and New Jersey under one state senator’s ...

It may not have been pretty, but it was effective from the Philadelphia Union Wednesday night, outlasting last-place Montreal ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep ...

The Berks County-based law firm has entered the Pittsburgh market, establishing its 17th office. Stevens & Lee is constructing a new, larger office in 1 PPG Place with completion expected in early ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lightly populated stretch of Alaska’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a ...

The United States is chasing a new age of nuclear power that banks on domestic production of reactor fuel like X-energy is ...

Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was “highly unlikely” to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome ...

The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to ...