Sam Dunklau | WITF

On the ceiling of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is a panel dedicated to natural gas.

Pennsylvania deployed an elite search and rescue team to help with efforts at a destroyed chocolate factory in West Reading.

Most schools under the PASSHE umbrella will be getting a several million dollar funding boost this year.

County election workers say they should have more time to open and sort mail-in ballots, but lawmakers have so far failed to approve such a change.

With a $45 billion state budget finally implemented, Pennsylvania schools, businesses and housing projects are the big winners. Each is slated to receive substantially more funding in the new fiscal year.

The plan still has a ways to go before it reaches Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk.

Pennsylvania’s new fiscal year began last Friday, but state lawmakers and the Wolf Administration have yet to agree to a new spending plan.

Whether the high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate motivates voters to turn out this fall is an open question.

Under the measure approved almost entirely along party lines in both chambers, watchers would be allowed to stand at least six feet from election workers and voters, with an option to move closer.

Gov. Tom Wolf says he isn’t entertaining any new restrictions. But that could change when he leaves office.