Pa. voters support universal background checks almost universally. The latest survey from Quinnipiac shows that there’s also healthy support for an assault weapons ban.

First Niagara released its Fourth Annual Survey of Pennsylvania Business Leaders, conducted by Siena University Research Institute, about 2013’s economic prospects, and the results are not promising.

Here’s the latest on proposed Pa. prison closings. Local legislators oppose the move, but the Corbett administration says it will save the state money.

Allegheny County Republicans have chosen Mt. Lebanon school board member Dan Remely to run against Democrat Dan Miller in the special election for Matt Smith’s vacant House seat.

Stephen Colbert highlighted Pa. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi on Tuesday as part of a riff on GOP efforts to mitigate Democrats’ presidential advantage in a handful of blue states.

Speaker Smith’s decision to schedule two state House special elections on the same day as the statewide primary means the GOP probably won’t go all out to pick up the Democratic seats.

Republicans face an uphill challenge in their effort to flip the state House seat of Pa.’s new Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. But they’ve chosen the man who will give it a shot: Bryan Tate.

Pa. Treasurer Rob McCord completed the trio of statewide Democrats who took the oath of office today. In his case, it’s the second time.

Eugene DePasquale promised to put his reform agenda into action as he was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s new Auditor General.

Kathleen Kane is Pa.’s first woman to be elected Attorney General and its first Democrat. But during her speech and later as she tended to her younger son – who fainted during the event – she reminded everyone that she’s the first mother, too.

Here are the men and women who will help Eugene DePasquale become the state’s fiscal watchdog.