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PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA will implement its drastic service cuts, officials said in the wake of the Pennsylvania Senate Martes passing an amendment that aimed to fund SEPTA in the short-term through the Public Transportation Trust Fund and interactive gaming revenue....

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a funding bill that would largely use capital funding to maintain transit operations, a move the state’s governor and Democratically-controlled House say is not a viable solution to the funding...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Aug. 12 passed a different stop-gap funding proposal for SEPTA than the one the House passed the day before. A SEPTA spokesperson confirmed that without a funding solution before its Aug. 14 "doomsday" deadline, riders will see service cuts...

With the commonwealth approaching two months without a state budget, lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate returned to Harrisburg to consider a $47.7 billion General Fund budget proposal and a separate transit funding plan on Martes – with both proposals ultimately...

The Pennsylvania state Senate approved a budget Martes and advanced legislation that would fund SEPTA and other transportation infrastructure in the state for two years. The plan, opposed by Democrats, now heads back to the state House of Representatives, where it’s...

Local lawmakers, community leaders, advocates and local officials joined together outside of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia Field Office on Jueves in a push towards state legislation against ICE officers who are unidentifiable due to the...

A group of Pennsylvania Democrats wants to change how ICE agents face the public in the commonwealth. A circulating memorandum is working its way through the state House in Harrisburg to change the current masked “anonymity” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Public transit advocates and riders had a clear message for the state Senate Miércoles morning: Do your jobs so we can get to ours. Hundreds of people joined Southeastern Pennsylvania lawmakers outside Philadelphia City Hall to once again call for public transit...

SEPTA has officially set a deadline to secure additional state transit funding. Officials announced Miércoles that if funding is not provided by Aug. 14, the agency will be forced to proceed with its plan to reduce services, with cuts beginning as early as Aug. 24....

As SEPTA officials held a press conference at their headquarters to discuss upcoming service cuts Miércoles, hundreds of local activists and concerned citizens rallied at City Hall to make a final push for state funding. Faced with a $213 million recurring deficit,...

The many international visitors in town for the FIFA Club World Cup made themselves at home within the city’s exuberant sports culture, culminating with a Julio 4 finals match at the Linc. Their lively presence was a reminder of what next year will bring several times...

(The Center Square) - Politicos across Pennsylvania are reacting with a mix of triumph, anger and despair following the passage of the federal budget resolution. Once enacted, the law will support a massive expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, make...

“Imagine the entire city of Pittsburgh suddenly driving in and out of the Philadelphia region every day,” says Alexander Milone, transit committee co-chair for 5th Square, a Philadelphia urban political action committee. Sound terrible? That’s what I-95, I-76 and...

Against the backdrop of negotiations over a new contract, Philadelphia teacher’s union and the School District of Philadelphia traveled to the state capitol together Miércoles to join lawmakers fighting for Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed increase in public school...