Slap an exclamation point or two behind the latest unemployment figure — 4.5 percent!! — posted for Butler County.
That’s half a percentage point lower than the Septembe...
Are the principles of community organizing and economic development compatible? In Butler County we’re about to find out.
In a presentation Monday night to Zelienople Bo...
Teaching would be the easiest profession of all, if students weren’t involved. It’s because schools strive for conformity and every student is different.
We set standard...
Should a fisherman face two decades in prison for discarding a few fish at sea? That question is at the core of a statutory interpretation case the Supreme Court heard i...
Plans are clearer now for the Kaufman House hotel and restaurant in Zelienople, which has been closed for more than three years after a fire in the kitchen.
The Butler ...
Cheers to Crystal Hazlett, who knows intimately the phrase “give until it hurts.”
Hazlett, 27, of Butler donated a kidney to Richard Goldberg of Woodbridge, Conn., a man...
Congratulations to Rite Aid Corp. on the opening of its new pharmacy and store Thursday at the corner of East Cunningham and South Main streets.
The new store, which was...
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald is working diligently on his pledge to clean house and bring discipline back to the VA health care system. He recently fire...
Sometimes a community service is so obviously needed that the community’s leaders don’t take time to evaluate the need or consider ways to improve the service.
That no l...
The decision by the grand jury in Ferguson, Mo. to not indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown sparked protests, some violence, and h...
