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SAXONBURG — As the Hotel Saxonburg remains unsold following a recent Sheriff sale, the state of the nearly two-century-old property is near the top of the mind of some bo...
May 20, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — There are 291 manufacturing establishments in Butler County offering many career opportunities, according to state data. Students from school districts aroun...
May 20, 2026 Local News
Tourism is on the move. Experience Butler County, the county’s tourism promotion agency, plans to move its administrative offices from its Zelienople location to one in d...
May 20, 2026 Local News
Scott Timko appears to have won the Republican nod for the 12th district seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following a tight race against Ethan Nicholas, ...
May 19, 2026 Local News
Jason Richey beat John Ventre in the race to be the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor by a significant margin. Richey took just shy of 65% of the vote compared ...
May 19, 2026 Local News
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Business News
NEW YORK — A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with ...
May 19, 2026 Business
Jell-O — long known for its bright rainbow of artificially colored gelatins — is getting a line of products made without synthetic colors or artificial sweeteners to meet...
May 19, 2026 Business
President Donald Trump on Monday announced more than 600 generic medications will be added to the government’s discounted-drug website TrumpRx, dramatically increasing of...
May 18, 2026 Business
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State News
WARMINSTER TWP, Bucks County — Democrats in Pennsylvania settled primary fights Tuesday to shape their congressional slate for the fall election, in which they hope — wit...
May 19, 2026 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — Democratic voters in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary will pick their nominees to flip four seats seen as critical for the party to retake the U.S. House in No...
May 18, 2026 Pennsylvania News
(The Center Square) — Both longtime and relatively new incumbent state lawmakers will face primary election challenges on May 19 as the journey toward remaking the legisl...
May 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
CRESTWOOD, Ky. — Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump’s power over his party after he hand...
May 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled...
May 19, 2026 National News
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal. The great horne...
May 19, 2026 National News
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International News
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday night in China for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump w...
May 19, 2026 International News
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces on Tuesday intercepted six remaining vessels from a much larger activist flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Two ...
May 19, 2026 International News
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the count...
May 18, 2026 International News
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