Butler City Council has approved a revised plan to reduce the city’s 7-mill business privilege tax for new businesses.
The 7-mill tax covers gross receipts of businesses...
PITTSBURGH — Four patients at one of Pittsburgh’s Veterans Affairs hospitals have been successfully treated for Legionnaire’s disease, and the hospital’s water supply is...
NEW ORLEANS — BP said this morning that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the massive 2010 oil spill, and it will plead guilty to fe...
HARRISBURG — Penn State should overhaul its governing structure in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, with the most important step being removal o...
WASHINGTON — In a challenge to Republicans, President Barack Obama urged Congress today to extend expiring tax cuts immediately for all but the highest income earners as...
CENTER TWP — The township supervisors have not yet decided what, if anything, it will do about a successful referendum to reduce their number from five to three.
The ref...
IRWIN TWP, Venango County — A fire Wednesday night destroyed an old farmhouse in this township near Barkeyville and just north of Butler County.
The owners, Greg Miller ...
WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify to Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks on the U....
WASHINGTON — In the latest twist of the David Petraeus sex scandal, court records show the former CIA director and Gen. John Allen intervened last September in a messy c...
BUTLER TWP — The Butler School District will keep Center Avenue Elementary School open at least through the 2013-14 school year, avoiding the loss of a reimbursement fro...