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LAS VEGAS — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with t...
April 23, 2024 Business
DALLAS — The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South,...
April 22, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Saturday put legislation forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to divest its ownership stake on a fast track to become law, tying ...
April 22, 2024 National News
Pennsylvania Farm Link is offering free land-linking database memberships until April 30 through its database sponsor Horizon Farm Credit. The membership includes a prof...
April 20, 2024 Agriculture
Popcorn lovers can now see their favorite treat made right before their eyes when they visit Popkins Magical Popcorn, 550 Main St. in Harmony, which opened on Saturday, A...
April 20, 2024 Business
Slippery Rock University announced it will be restructuring and unifying its community engagement efforts through a revisioning process of three groups — the Office for C...
April 20, 2024 Education
MAC.BID, also known as M@C Discount's, announced it is set to open its Yinz Binz location, 210 Greater Butler Mart in Butler on Monday, April 22. The Yinz Binz location w...
April 20, 2024 Business
OMAHA, Neb. — The Environmental Protection Agency cleared the way Friday for a higher blend of ethanol to be sold nationwide for the third summer in a row, citing global ...
April 19, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — A Bangkok -based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 “egregious” violations of Iran sanctions, the U.S. Treasury ann...
April 19, 2024 Business
HONG KONG — Apple said it had removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese author...
April 19, 2024 Business
BUTLER TWP — Automation and artificial intelligence isn’t the death of manufacturing, but instead the start of new beginnings, according to local manufacturers. High scho...
April 19, 2024 Business
The Tri-County Health Care Industry Partnership announced it is giving out up to 10 $1,000 awards to health care workers currently enrolled in BSN, RN and LPN programs. A...
April 19, 2024 Business
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority announced on Thursday, April 18 that Armstrong Telecommunications has received about $12.47 million in Broadband Infrastr...
April 18, 2024 News
Sheetz Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz, which operates more than 700 st...
April 18, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Mars Mineral, a global provider of pelletizing technology and agglomeration solutions, announced it has shipped a Model 26D100L stainless steel pin mixer to a company bas...
April 18, 2024 Business
DETROIT — Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a Delaware judge this year, and to shift the company's ...
April 17, 2024 Business
DETROIT — A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall. The National Highway Traffic S...
April 17, 2024 Business
NEW YORK — Ford is recalling more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to a battery detection issue that can result in loss of drive power, increasing cras...
April 17, 2024 Business
Tesla BioHealing Wellness Hotel and Resort along with its Medical Center will be hosting its grand opening celebration on Saturday, April 20, 139 Pittsburgh Road in Butle...
April 17, 2024 Business
The Armco Credit Union’s Mars branch, 1031 Aster Way in Adams Township, will host a series of free Lunch & Learn workshops for small business owners every Wednesday in Ma...
April 17, 2024 Business
FRANKLIN TWP — The township’s supervisors could potentially seek out a partner to lease out 80-acres of farmland on Prospect Road, which the township has owned since Sept...
April 17, 2024 Agriculture
SAXONBURG — The borough is in talks to potentially hand operational control of the Saxonburg Museum to the Friends of Saxonburg Museum, a 501(c)(3) charitable organizatio...
April 16, 2024 Community
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s powerful national security advis...
April 16, 2024 National News
PITTSBURGH — The union that represents a Pittsburgh newspaper’s truck drivers, one of five unions that have been on strike for 18 months, has approved a new contract with...
April 16, 2024 Business
Independence Health System announced on Monday, April 15 that Lela Dougherty will join the Butler Family Medicine team at its 116 Woody Drive location in Butler. Doughert...
April 16, 2024 Business
The Butler County Farm Bureau and its Women’s Leadership Committee is hosting a free agriculture education event followed by a square dance Saturday, April 20, at the But...
April 16, 2024 Agriculture
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York towns and villages that have post-Prohibition bans on alcohol sales would be forced to lift such restrictions under a bill moving through the Legi...
April 15, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — Two steel-state Democrats in tough reelection fights are urging President Joe Biden to do more to stop the proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp. ...
April 15, 2024 Business
Financial literacy is one of the core skills needed to succeed in the 21st century. Data recently released by the nonprofit Investor Education Foundation shows high scho...
April 13, 2024 Business
BUFFALO TWP — Supervisors voted 2-1 to approve a conditional-use permit for a home dog grooming business on Beale Road, operated by Robert and Jacqueline Micholas. Howev...
April 13, 2024 Business
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