Jaxon White

5 days ago | lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White

Artificial intelligence technology applications like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot have advanced so quickly in recent years that they’ve knocked officials and regulators on their heels. But Pennsylvania lawmakers charged with adapting laws and regulations for the AI age are confident that 2025 is the year they’ll regain their balance.

6 days ago | lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding renewed his call this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to restore the recently slashed $13 million in federal funding to farmers who sell products to food banks. In a letter sent Thursday to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, Redding called the federal agency’s cancellation of the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Assistance Program “unlawful” and harmful to the 190 farms statewide benefiting from the program.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White

Lancaster County’s first Democratic state senator in more than a century said Thursday that he plans to support legislation that would restrict transgender women and girls who want to participate in school sports.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White

Lancaster County is home to more jobs in the forest products industry than any other county in Pennsylvania. But unlike 34 counties in a stretch of the state’s northern and central regions, Lancaster lacks a local organization to coordinate forest management, promote hardwood industries and attract workers. That’s largely because the General Assembly hasn’t funded the formation of a Hardwood Utilization Group, colloquially called a HUG, for 33 counties across southern Pennsylvania.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jaxon White

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday her department is organizing a program to deliver subsidies to farmers facing financial turmoil from President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with China. Rollins said she hopes with “fervent prayers” that the subsidy program would not be needed, but she defended Trump’s tariff policies, saying the president is using tariffs to negotiate fairer trade deals with foreign countries.