President Barack Obama says he’s giving mid-size businesses more time to comply with his health care law because the goal is not to punish anyone — unless, it seems, the...
Butler County officials are on the right track in considering ending the longevity bonus pay program for nonunion employees and swticing to one based on performance, kno...
Butler County Human Services has a new administrative post to serve the homeless. The community housing coordinator will be the first county employee devoted to the prog...
A congratulatory cheer to the congregation of All Saints Anglican Church, which recently moved into its new sanctuary on Haine School Road in Cranberry Township.
The for...
It makes sense to consider this week’s suggestion by Butler County Commissioner Bill McCarrier to eliminate the individual commissioners’ reports at every voting meeting...
Jon Galante finds himself in a heap of hot water, and rightly so.
The former Butler County jury commissioner faces misdemeanor charges of interfering with juror selectio...
Gov. Tom Corbett set the stage Tuesday for his budget address with a theme similar to President Barack Obama’s exit of his recent State of the Union address with a rousi...
There’s something counterintuitive about pruning — the cutting away of parts of a plant to make it more productive. Yet, farmers who are adept at it can testify to the p...
Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was only 46, busy as ever and one of the world’s greatest actors. Hoffman’s death Sunday in New York brought a stunning halt ...
The cause-and-effect arguments being posed in defense of the current real property tax reform seem a little skewed.
Identical House and Senate bills, if enacted, would e...