Aryanna Strader  

The Mount Joy Chamber of Commerce will host the three Lancaster County commissioners, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts and his congressional opponent, Aryanna Strader,  and other lawmakers at a breakfast on Tuesday.
The event, which is open to the public, will begin at 7:30 a.m. at The Gathering Place, 6 Pi...

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts outraised his major-party challenger by more than 2-to-1 during the first three months of this year in his bid for a ninth term in the House, new campaign finance reports show.

The Chester County Republican reported bringing in $124,293 from Jan. 1 through April 4, according t...

Most of the congressional and legislative candidates seeking election this year are unopposed in the party primaries and will face their first and only challenge in November.

Here's a look at those candidates on the ballot in Lancaster County.

Congress

Republican U.S. Reps. Joe Pitts and Pa...

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts says he came away from this week's Supreme Court hearings with a suspicion that the justices might throw out the entire 2010 health care reform law.

The court weighed, among other issues, whether it could handle just the individual mandate requiring Americans to either buy ins...

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said he and other congressional opponents of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care overhaul would press for the law's repeal even if the Supreme Court rules it constitutional this summer.

Pitts, who has repeatedly described the landmark law as deeply flawed and its mandate...

Obama who? Romney what?

The year 2012 promises to be a big one in politics — and we're not even talking about the presidential contest. The slate is chock-full at the local and state levels, where the rubber really meets the road.

You might have read about the pledged and unpledged candi...

The Republican Party chairman here is questioning whether Democratic congressional hopeful Aryanna Strader and her party tried to mislead voters into believing she is a Chester County native and resident of the 16th District.

Strader, an Oregon native who moved to Chester County in July, lives le...

John Weigel said something at Saturday's county Democratic Party convention that one doesn't usually hear at a Democratic political event.
"I am proud to say I am a follower of Jesus Christ," Weigel announced to the 125 people gathered Saturday morning at The Country Barn, adding, "and that is preci...

A Chester County Democrat hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts in the fall lives outside the newly redrawn 16th Congressional District's boundaries, geographic and legal data show.

Aryanna Strader's home in a section of Kennett Township was moved into the 7th Congressional District, no...

Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts will face a Democratic challenger this year after all — and the candidate is running right in the lawmaker's own backyard.

Aryanna Strader, 29, of Kennett Square, is endorsed by the Chester County Democratic Committee and has been meeting with clubs here in La...