A quarter century after the state designated Scranton a “distressed city,” Mayor Bill Courtright says he is optimistic that the city government can shed the label this year. But given events recently, ...

NANTICOKE -- There was a bit of a celebration at city hall Monday night in Nanticoke. Nanticoke is expected to become the only city in Pennsylvania history to turn its finances around and lose the ...

Pennsylvania’s lawmakers have concluded that the commonwealth’s struggling cities are on their own. They adopted changes to Act 47, the state law covering distressed cities, to establish tighter ...