Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation for a $3 billion tax cut, their just-unveiled counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget p...
May 07, 2024
Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is inviting high school students from District 10 — which includes Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson countie...
May 07, 2024
Government
A ninth wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection to Heather Pressdee, the former nurse accused of intentionally administering fatal overdoses of insulin to pat...
April 24, 2024
Crime & Courts
For members of the United Methodist Church across the world, both priests and laity, this week has been circled on the calendar for the past four years.
Tuesday, April 23...
April 22, 2024
National News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries, a prelude to the November gener...
April 19, 2024
Elections
Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio.
The company sa...
April 09, 2024
Pennsylvania News
With the start of spring comes the start of the hatching season for the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species of insect which has the majority of Pennsylvania on high a...
April 07, 2024
Agriculture
The Wilkinsburg Stamp Club, which bills itself as one of the oldest philatelic societies in Pennsylvania, is hosting its 74th annual stamp and postcard show April 12 and ...
March 28, 2024
Weekend Entertainment
HARRISBURG — To offset the burden of student debt, employers in Pennsylvania could get a tax credit if they make contributions to their employees’ tuition savings account...
March 23, 2024
Pennsylvania News
JEANNETTE — Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children and spreadi...
March 21, 2024
Pennsylvania News
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March 21, 2024
Pennsylvania News
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March 20, 2024
Pennsylvania News
State Rep. Stephenie Scialabba, R-12th, is holding an open house on Thursday, April 11 to celebrate the opening of her new district office at the Cranberry Township Munic...
March 16, 2024
Pennsylvania News
Pennsylvania is going “over the moon” for the next few weeks, as the entire commonwealth is lucky enough to be in direct viewing range of the annular solar eclipse, which...
March 16, 2024
Pennsylvania News
CRESCENT TWP, Allegheny County — A massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River, authorities said Tuesday.
Aerial ...
March 12, 2024
Local News
HARRISBURG — With the help of millions of dollars in federal funding, Pennsylvania has plugged more oil and gas wells in the last year and a half than it did in the past ...
February 27, 2024
Pennsylvania News
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February 21, 2024
Pennsylvania News
Some Butler County residents will be affected
Some Butler County residents will be affected
February 15, 2024
Business
The hunt for a missing alligator originally from Butler County may be over, as Kiski Township Police Department announced the scaly suspect was apprehended Friday, Feb. 9...
February 12, 2024
Local News
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate adult use marijuana, while leaning ...
February 06, 2024
Pennsylvania News
For years, the Ramirez family, of Zelienople, and others like them, have had to wait anxiously for a phone call — one telling them a donor has come to their rescue and wi...
February 05, 2024
Local News
The Pittsburgh Zoo is in mourning after the death of its beloved western lowland gorilla Mrithi, who died at the age of 31 on Thursday of what are suspected to be spinal ...
February 02, 2024
Pennsylvania News
Four Butler County organizations received a total of $250,000 in Emergency Solutions Grant awards from Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development, wh...
February 02, 2024
Community
HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to devote millions of dollars to creating a 10-year economic development plan, including developing commercial and industr...
January 31, 2024
Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro has a new slogan for how he wants to run Pennsylvania — and it's not fit for kids' ears.
“We’ve got a GSD attitude in the Shapiro adm...
January 26, 2024
Pennsylvania News
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January 24, 2024
Pennsylvania News
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January 19, 2024
Pennsylvania News
State Sen. Scott Hutchinson, R-21st, announced Jan. 5 he is running for reelection. Hutchinson, of Oil City, is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, vice chairman of...
January 18, 2024
Local News
PITTSBURGH — Demolition got underway Wednesday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, as part of the e...
January 17, 2024
Pennsylvania News
Community Partnership, based in Butler County, received a $100,000 grant, which will be distributed to veteran farmers in the form of mini-grants.
Pennsylvania Agricultur...
January 12, 2024
Agriculture
