New safety plan requirements for minors came after a Spotlight PA investigation found allegations of abuse from volunteers at Lancaster's Field of Screams.

A records dispute in Berks County cost thousands and, according to one transparency expert, shows flaws in Pa.'s open records system.

In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.

Berks County residents are fighting Tulpehocken Township after the township refused to release a proposed ordinance that could have affected local farms.

A man convicted of exposing himself to minors volunteered at Field of Screams in PA for 3 years. Advocates call for reform to a state clearance law.

Clearfield County will make $1 million to act as the middleman between ICE and GEO Group, which operates Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found.

One family's story reveals the human cost of hospital closures, funding cuts, and the resulting failures in Pennsylvania's mental health care system.

Cathleen Palm founded the Center for Children’s Justice, a Berks County nonprofit that advocates for policies to protect Pennsylvania youth from abuse.

The Shapiro administration is allowing teens to volunteer at Field of Screams despite past allegations involving sexual misconduct and workplace injuries.

Volunteers say they brought allegations of abuse directly to owners of Field of Screams, as well as to law enforcement. The accused continued in a supervisory position.

Volunteers say they brought allegations of abuse directly to owners of Field of Screams in Lancaster County, as well as to law enforcement.

Volunteers say they brought allegations of abuse directly to owners of Field of Screams in Lancaster County, as well as to law enforcement.

Volunteers say they brought allegations of abuse directly to owners of Field of Screams, as well as to law enforcement. The accused continued in a supervisory position.

Volunteers say they brought allegations of abuse directly to owners of Field of Screams in Lancaster County, as well as to law enforcement.

Should parents be charged for infant sleep deaths? Two Pennsylvania cases raise debate.

A fentanyl overdose caused the death of a 27-year-old man who was found unresponsive in his jail cell last month at Lancaster County Prison, according to the county coroner’s office.

Lancaster City Council member Janet Diaz has no plans to step down from her post amid calls for her resignation from a local activist and three City Council members over

The governor and his family were safely evacuated from the building.

Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

Lancaster City Council candidates largely agree on the most pressing issues facing the city, with housing and police transparency the focus of a debate Thursday night at Bethel AME Church

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

A panel of Commonwealth Court judges ruled that lawmakers don’t have to make public their communications with lobbyists.

Philip Holsinger photographed Venezuelan deportees from the U.S., most with no apparent criminal record, as they became inmates in a notorious prison in El Salvador. Photograph by Philip Holsinger.

Ukrainian Americans in Pa. keep a close eye on changing political landscapes and a war torn nation

Ukrainian Americans in Pa. keep a close eye on changing political landscapes and a war torn nation

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

PA’s Board of Pardons makes life-changing decisions with little transparency. Spotlight PA is making 25 years of commutation votes available for the first time.

Six Bhutanese green card holders living in central Pennsylvania were arrested in the first two weeks of March, according to local refugee communit […]

From the editor's desk: Why providing context in our work matters.

Bill Bachert said he and his wife were looking to mix up the routines of retirement when they signed up for a free class on U.S. history offered by their

Gail Stallworth thought her life sentence for murder would be commuted until an unheard-of revote. Advocates say the PA Board of Pardons lacks transparency.

Paramount Management LLC, run by Daryl Fred Heller out of Lancaster County, was an improbable business empire that collapsed into a "circular firing squad."

In 2023, Elton John’s production company, J. Bondi, sold a $1.565 million tax credit it received for holding its Farewell Yellow Brick Road rehearsals at Rock Lititz.

Since 2019, the state has given $48 million in tax breaks to the production companies of performers who rehearsed at Rock Lititz

A county paid for study suggested fixes to the area’s public health issues but officials say there’s no room in the budget to act on them.