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The Milken Educator Award is a special recognition for exceptional teachers. Coined “the Oscars of teaching,” the Milken Awards include an unrestricted $25,000 cash awar...

Sometimes the editorial writer’s challenge is to point out connections between elements of our community’s culture that seem unrelated — or just as frequently, between e...

What will it take to spark a renaissance on Butler’s Main Street? The question suddenly becomes more than a rhetorical exercise. The Butler County Tourism and Convention...

A bill reforming Pennsylvania’s backwards teacher furloughing system headed to the desk of Gov. Tom Wolf last week. And while it’s clear that the governor, who vetoed a ...

Oh, those burdensome property taxes! They’re unequal, unfair and unending. Retirees on fixed incomes feel trapped by ever-rising property tax rates. They fear losing the...

Who are you going to believe? Rather, what do the people of Butler want to believe? The pair of questions, applied to the issue of civil rights, weigh heavy on the Nov. ...

Let’s go ahead and call it a comeback. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is on a hot streak. Late last month he delivered a robust, necessary defense of free speech on...

Forget what you know. Maybe. The world of paleoanthropology — the study of the origins of mankind — is reeling this week from the shock announcement of a new discovery: ...

Evidence is mounting that Gov. Tom Wolf made the right call in 2015, when he announced a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania until the state could compile a compreh...

Police and emergency responders will get help dealing with Pennsylvania’s continuing opioid addiction and overdose crisis, after Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday announced the st...