Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority announced the signing of a Delaware River dredging contract.

Harrisburg, Pa.'s City Council may allocate $7,500 to defend a lawsuit the city's receiver has filed to force it to triple its earned-income tax, a court ruled.

Pittsburgh looks to emerge from state oversight, but the city faces pension liability challenges.

U.S. Steel, the nation's largest steel producer, is coming to market Thursday to raise money to finance upgrades to solid-waste facilities. The borrowing comes a week after the U.S. Justice Department sued the steel giant for clean-air violations in three states.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, who sponsored legislation that led to the state takeover of distressed capital city Harrisburg, faces 14 charges of professional misconduct as a private attorney.

While the mayor and City Council finally came to terms in Scranton, Pa., over a financial recovery plan, the matter remains at a standstill because the city's state-appointed coordinator doesn't like it.

A Pennsylvania official Tuesday said the state could relax its Aug. 15 deadline for Scranton to enact a revised recovery plan if it sees the mayor and City Council making progress.

A Pennsylvania official could relax its Aug. 15 deadline for Scranton enacting a revised recovery plan if it sees the mayor and City Council making progress.

Pennsylvania's Senate has scheduled an Aug. 29 hearing on the incinerator bond deals that left capital city Harrisburg with more than $310 million in debt that it cannot pay.

Nearly broke and seemingly shut off from the capital markets, Scranton has asked its pension board to meet current-year obligations for payroll and debt service.

According to the report, the city absorbed $264 million of incinerator bond debt that year.

Neil Grover of the taxpayer group Harrisburg Debt Watch will resume the battle against receiver William Lynch over tripling the earned-income tax in Pennsylvania's capital city.

The school's Aa1 rating is at risk after the NCAA imposed a $60 million fine for its role in a child sex-abuse scandal.

A court hearing looms on a state receiver's lawsuit demanding that it triple the city's income tax.

The rating agency does not expect the NCAA's $60 million fine to immediately affect the long-term ratings on various revenue bonds issued by and for the school.

The City Council has introduced tentative agreements with the police and fire unions that reflect the state Supreme Court ruling last fall.

A new Pennsylvania law will consolidate the functions of the Securities Commission into the Department of Banking to form a new Department of Banking and Securities.

Mark Schwartz, who has represented the Harrisburg City Council since October and filed a Chapter 9 petition on its behalf, withdrew from its most recent filing from the Commonwealth Court, saying he has not been paid.

A local private-sector consultant, invoking the 1975 New York City crisis, says M&T should tell the Pennsylvania city to drop dead.

But employees, who have gotten the federal minimum since July 6, will not get back pay yet as the city lacks the funds.