HARRISBURG — More accountability is needed in programs that provide state grants and low-interest loans to companies that promise to create jobs, Pennsylvania’s top audi...
Passage teetering in Congress
WASHINGTON — Growing opposition among Democrats and persistent opposition from the tea party Republicans has left a $1.1 trillion government...
42.9M Americans have unpaid debts
WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers — 42.9 million people — have unpaid medical debts, according to a new report by the Con...
GENEVA — The global airline industry expects its profits to leap to a record high next year, boosted by a continued fall in jet fuel prices as well as strong passenger d...
The Energy Department again slashed its prediction for next year’s average price of gasoline across the U.S., this time to $2.60 a gallon. That would be 23 percent below...
WASHINGTON — Congress is taking some whole grains off the school lunch line.
A massive year-end spending bill released Tuesday doesn’t allow schools to opt out of health...
Annual pension totals $134,000
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice who abruptly retired in late October after being linked to a pornographic e-mail scanda...
Vote on permit set Thursday
CRANBERRY TWP — A new day care could be coming to the intersection of North Boundary and Marshall roads.
Ron Henshaw, the director of communi...
Four of nine regional counties have posted unemployment rates below 5 percent in October. Three of them — Butler, Westmoreland and Venango — moved under 5 percent in Oct...
Project is still nearly $12M under budget
Although fixing the roof of the new Butler County office building could cost as much as $50,000, the nearly $12 million project ...
