People reading the Feb. 10 Butler Eagle article about the Butler Township commissioners' approval of a new fee schedule for 2012 might not have stopped to consider the s...
Butler police Capt. Ronald Fierst, who will become the city’s police chief on March 2, says he wants to bring the same mentality to the chief position as he had as a bea...
Former state Rep. Mike Veon, D-Beaver, along with former state Sen. Vincent Fumo, both started nonprofit agencies with names suggesting good works for the public. Veon c...
The fact that eight people are vying for appointment to a two-year unexpired term on the Butler School Board raises a question. That is why there is so much interest in ...
Member of Congress passed legislation last week to ban lawmakers from insider trading, making stock market profits with nonpublic information.
While that sounds good, it...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s “lean and demanding” 2012-13 state budget proposal has ensured that the commonwealth’s 500 public school districts will again face seriou...
Now that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has explained its reasons for rejecting the state’s redistricting plan, it’s clear that the high court used good judgment in reac...
A Butler man will serve prison time and probation and be required to comply with a number of other sentence requirements before he can put his fourth and fifth drunken-d...
After nearly two years of debate over an extraction tax or impact fee on natural gas drillers and updating drilling regulations, Republicans in the state Legislature wer...
Municipal composting facilities make sense.
People in many places, especially in more populated areas, often have trouble finding appropriate sites for disposal of their...
