WITF News

12/23/2025

Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories on Monday announced that it will add a new 300,000-square-foot biopharmaceutical testing facility and office to its Leola campus, costing about $147 million and adding about 250 jobs over the next three years.

Neal Salerno, senior vice president of Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing, said he’s been working with state officials to plan the project for the past year.

12/23/2025

A bankruptcy trustee is asking a federal judge for permission to sell off what is left of Daryl Heller’s companies without the Lancaster businessman’s involvement.

Yet even as he seeks to liquidate Heller’s assets, the trustee has expressed doubts that a total selloff can even cover the legal and administrative costs of dissolving the business empire that Heller said was worth $370 million two years ago, just before the collapse of his ATM investment network.

A bankruptcy trustee is asking a federal judge for permission to sell off what is left of Daryl Heller’s companies without the Lancaster busines […]

12/21/2025

Driving will make up the vast majority of travel, with 89% of holiday travelers choosing to take a car.

A record number of Americans are expected to hit the road or catch a flight this holiday season, according to a travel forecast released by AAA..A […]

12/21/2025

Fake photographs aren’t exactly a new thing in politics. Congress tried to pass a law against creating them in 1912 after a conman was discovered with a doctored photo of him shaking President William Howard Taft’s hand.

12/16/2025

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday on Monday said he would defend any artificial intelligence regulations passed by the General Assembly from Trump administration efforts to block them in court.

“If there’s a statute that is attacked for its constitutionality, then we will absolutely defend it,” the first-term Republican told reporters gathered in his office.

12/16/2025

Pennsylvania legislators are poised to have one of their least productive sessions in at least a decade, in terms of the number of bills passed.

Split government, heightened partisanship, and the concentration of power in the hands of legislative leaders are to blame, according to Spotlight PA interviews with some of the lawmakers who introduced the most bills this year.

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to acco […]

12/14/2025

What happens to a vehicle after a traffic stop or a crash, and how much a tow costs, can vary widely depending on the nature of the incident, where it takes place and the discretion of both police and towing operators, said Lt. Steve Heinly of the West Lampeter Police Department.

12/13/2025

The outcome of a major U.S. Supreme Court case could make it harder for Pennsylvania’s Hispanic voters and other minority communities to fight for representation.

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to acco […]

12/11/2025

Shapiro and Cox spoke of the importance of debate to resolving political differences, though they offered different views on who should be responsible for leading the country away from political violence and toward a more productive politics.

12/10/2025

For Jennifer Eaton’s blind and vision-impaired clients at VisionCorps in downtown Lancaster, Red Rose Transit is key to the independence that the nonprofit seeks to provide.

“They want to be part of the community, they want to be part of society, and they cannot do that if they don’t have proper transportation,” said Eaton, a Lancaster city resident who also relies on public transit because of low vision.

Transit advocates say the cost of providing service is outgrowing the state funding agencies rely upon to provide it. The list of counties with transit agencies facing budget shortfalls is no longer limited to Philadelphia and Allegheny, and could soon include Lancaster.

12/10/2025

Pennon, the owner of LNP Media Group, will pay $2.3 million as part of the transfer of the media company to Always Lancaster, a newly formed nonprofit headed by former NPR journalist David Greene.

On Tuesday, Pennon’s board of directors approved the extra spending for LNP as part of a $14.5 million budget for Pennon, whose other property is public broadcaster WITF. The budget, which runs through June 2026 and doesn’t include LNP, maintains programming levels at WITF but dips into an endowment fund to cover a projected deficit of $874,000 for the year.

12/10/2025

A panel of state Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning subpoenaed state police and Gov. Josh Shapiro’s hometown for documents related to the security enhancements made to the Democrat’s private residence in Montgomery County, after the assassination attempt against him in April.

Republicans on the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee subpoenaed financial records, communications, permits and more information from Pennsylvania State Police and Shapiro’s home municipality, Abington Township.

A panel of state Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning subpoenaed state police and Gov. Josh Shapiro’s hometown for documents related to the […]