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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SCRANTON — Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Davin Tuesday announced that the city of Scranton’s status as a distressed municipality under Act 47 is terminated.

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — State Department of Community and Economic Development officials will be in the city Wednesday for a public hearing on Mayor Tony George’s request to declare the city financially ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — A bill approved last week by the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee would remove the "distressed" label from Muncie Community Schools and potentially increase state funding to the ...

REGION - For the first time in 14 years, Griswold has been listed as a distressed municipality in the Department of Economic Development's annual report. Sprague was included on the list for the 16th ...

Plymouth Twp. has come a long way since late 2002 when the municipality was nearly $1 million in debt and new Supervisor Gale Conrad was forced to use $50 of her own money to buy gasoline for the ...