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...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is inviting high school students from District 10 — which includes Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson countie...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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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...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate adult use marijuana, while leaning ...
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...
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 ...
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...
HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to devote millions of dollars to creating a 10-year economic development plan, including developing commercial and industr...
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...
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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...
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...
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...