Details of a “pay to play” culture that reportedly existed at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will be heard this week at hearings related to corruption charges stem...
Pennsylvania has good reason to protect its highway system. With the nation’s fifth-largest network of state-maintained roads and the fourth-highest number of interstate...
Sometimes the most telling details are the ones that don’t materialize.
Take for example the proposed merger of three volunteer fire departments in Butler Township. The ...
For lack of a sink, people who gather for lunch in the Senior Center of the Passavant Retirement Community in Zelienople will have to dine elsewhere.
A state inspector s...
Now you’ve gone and done it, Commissioner Jim Eckstein. You have alleged a grand conspiracy.
You’ve accused fellow Commissioner Dale Pinkerton of cutting the two elected...
From every perspective, recent proposals to build two motels in Butler Township should be regarded as welcome news.
Horizon Properties of Canonsburg this week presented ...
One of the greatly anticipated grand pillars of Gov. Tom Corbett’s $28 billion budget package has turned out rather spindly.
The Senate version of a state liquor privat...
There’s a good reason why we call it an impact fee — the money Pennsylvania collects from natural gas companies for each well they maintain.
Gas producers will pay about...
It probably would not have taken an ethnic slur to get Richard Allan fired. But a racially charged comment, emailed via government computer from Allan to his wife, made ...
Cooper's Lake Campground in western Butler County has something in common with Elihu Phinney's farm in upstate New York. Their point of commonality comes into focus this...
