Question of the day: As I write this on the first day of March, what do you think has been the performance of the stock market — I use the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock ...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell in January to 7.6 percent, down from 7.7 percent in December, although payrolls shrank slightly.
After a recent revisi...
Vo-tech budget goes to districts
BUTLER TWP — The 2012-13 budget for the Butler County Vocational-Technical School will go to member school boards for approval.
The vo-te...
Advocates mark 1-year anniversary
HARRISBURG — Democrats and advocates for the poor in Pennsylvania are marking the one-year anniversary of the elimination of a state-sub...
The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the Feb. 28 livestock auction.
Commercial bulls, $97.50 to 100.; commercial cows, 19.50 to 88.50; commerci...
PHILADELPHIA — A proposed $1 billion gas pipeline would connect production facilities in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale with markets south toward Philadelph...
SINGAPORE — Oil prices fell to below $107 a barrel today in Asia after U.S. crude supplies grew more than expected amid weak gasoline demand.
Benchmark oil for April del...
Planning staff discusses project
CRANBERRY TWP — The township planning staff continues to work through land development issues for the new Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic H...
PITTSBURGH — GenOn Energy said it plans to close five of its older coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania over the next four years.
]The company, based in Houston, said...
FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank has made $712.4 billion in low-interest loans to banks in the second round of a massive credit infusion that has been cred...
