Election

All Pennsylvania voters — yes, that includes independents and minor-party members — will be asked to consider four ballot questions on May 18. Two of them are about as non-controversial as possible. The other two? A different story.

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Following are contested races that Republican and Democratic voters in Lancaster County will face for courts, school boards and municipal offices. There are many more candidates who are running unopposed in the primary but could face competition in the November general election.

In less than a month, voters will head to the polls for the 2021 Municipal Primary on May 18.

Fresh from high school and in their first year of college, two young Ephrata men are making their initial foray into running for municipal office.Kevin Gudala and Chandler Eby, both 19 and both 2020 EHS graduates, are planning to make a run for office in Ephrata Borough's upcoming municipal …

More than 10 months after Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced that $150,000 of drug forfeiture money is missing as the likely result of an internal theft, the investigation continues.

Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler has tested positive for COVID-19.

After years of campaigning on a promise to work across the aisle on common sense legislation, Rep. Lloyd Smucker quietly left a bipartisan caucus formed to help bridge the gap between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler is quarantining after having contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. 

Beth Bathe’s small business wouldn’t have made it to 2021 without the grant she received from Lancaster County.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the Lancaster County courts closed their doors.

A bill being drafted by Lancaster city’s representative to the state House would require each county to form a public health department to deal with problems like the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The state Department of Health denied a public records request from Spotlight PA, citing a decades-old law that it has frequently used to shield the public from scrutinizing its pandemic response.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker returned to the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to meet with local officials in Texas about the number of migrants trying to enter the country illegally.

Public information about the vaccine rollout in the facilities is limited, after the Department of Corrections failed to meet its own deadline to relaunch a transparency dashboard.

HARRISBURG — Five female Republican state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban transgender students in Pennsylvania from playing women’s sports, the latest in a nationwide wave of legislation advocates say risks the health of trans children and adults.