Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has made a friendly wager with a Pennsylvania county executive ahead of the Texans’ Wild Card matchup against the Steelers with merch, bragging rights, and county pride on the line.

Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hangs in the balance in statewide elections next week, when voters will cast ballots on judges for the state’s three highest courts.

Pennsylvania’s two largest cities will hold primaries Tuesday for high-profile municipal offices.

This year's presidential election could see a historic gender gap as young women line up behind Democrat Kamala Harris' bid to be the first female president.

Pennsylvania is seeing lots of action targeting gaps in its vote-by-mail laws.

An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who've criticized the conflict.

Voters in Tuesday’s general election in Pennsylvania will fill a vacant state Supreme Court seat that could play a significant role on voting-related cases during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Local elections in Democratic strongholds at both ends of Pennsylvania next month could show how voters feel about progressive candidates and issues such as abortion and crime ahead of the 2024 election.

New state data shows that an election eve Pennsylvania court decision that said mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes can’t count resulted in otherwise valid votes being canceled in the high-stakes November election.

Authorities say the man suspected of fatally shooting a Pennsylvania police chief and wounding another officer in confrontations near Pittsburgh was killed by police after a chase.

Five weeks after Election Day, winning candidates in Pennsylvania from governor to Congress are waiting for their victories to become official.

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)WHY AP CALLED PENNSYLVANIA FOR BIDEN:Four years ago, President Donald Trump breached the Democrats’ “blue wall,” narrowly winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — a trio of Great Lakes states that had long served as a bulwark against Republican presidential candidates. On Saturday, Democrat Joe Biden captured it back — and also won the presidency — after The Associated Press declared the former vice president the winner of his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST. The AP called the race for Biden, who held a 34,243-vote lead, after it determined that the remaining ballots left to be counted would not allow Trump to catch up. There are roughly 62,000 mail ballots remaining to be counted. Biden has won the overwhelming majority of mail ballots cast in the state.

___6:05 p.m.Democrat Joe Biden is adding to his lead over President Donald Trump in Georgia. Biden is on the cusp of victory as he opened narrow leads over President Donald Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania. The emergency request Friday came as Democrat Joe Biden inched ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. ___2 p.m.Democrat Joe Biden has increased his lead over President Donald Trump in Nevada to 20,137 votes. ___4:40 a.m.Democrat Joe Biden is now leading President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia.