Pennsylvania ban on indoor dining, gyms, school sports to be lifted Jan. 4
By Angela Couloumbis and Jamie Martines of Spotlight PA Gov. Tom Wolf will lift restrictions that temporarily halted indoor dining, shuttered gyms, casinos, and theaters, and suspended in-person sports and extracurricular More...
New covid cases in Bucks shatter records
New covid-19 infections in Bucks County continued to shatter records last week, county health officials said Monday. The state reported 3,227 new infections in Bucks from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, an average of 461 per More...
Covid situation in Bucks County deteriorating rapidly
The covid-19 picture in Bucks County has worsened to the point where health officials are giving up on contact tracing. An unprecedented average of 296 new cases per day was reported last week – more than four More...
Pennsylvania announces new covid-19 measures
With new modeling projecting 22,000 new covid-19 cases per day in Pennsylvania in December, Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today announced new targeted mitigation measures to help More...
New Pennsylvania covid measures call for negative test to enter state from NJ
Deciding whether to take a walk across the bridge to Lambertville and back will get more complicated for New Hope residents starting Friday. Among the “targeted” measures announced Tuesday by Pennsylvania More...
New Hope-Solebury caught in between state, county on whether to close schools
Pennsylvania and Bucks County health officials can’t agree on whether schools should switch to all-virtual learning, and New Hope-Solebury is caught in the middle. Pennsylvania Department of Education officials More...
Daily increase in Pennsylvania covid cases now highest ever
Daily increases in covid cases in Pennsylvania are now the highest they have ever been since the start of the pandemic. The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Monday confirmed 2,060 new cases, in addition to More...
Bucks covid case count increases as fall surge hits Pennsylvania
The fall surge of covid-19 has hit Pennsylvania, state officials said this week. The county’s new case numbers for Oct. 11-17 totaled 265, an average of almost 38 per day, and 36 more than last week’s total More...
New covid-19 cases in Bucks County stay steady
Last week’s count of new covid-19 infections remained identical to that of the previous week, as Bucks County added 241 cases to its total, a daily average of about 34. No new covid deaths were reported from Sept. More...
Gov. Wolf to appeal ruling that covid-19 restrictions are unconstitutional
Gov. Tom Wolf pushed back against a federal judge who ruled Monday that key components of the governor’s mitigation strategy are “unconstitutional,” including the decision to temporarily shut down businesses More...