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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first fligh...
May 06, 2024 Business
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — The township is considering a new municipal building and is seeking a Local Share Amount grant from the state to fund its planning, design and const...
May 04, 2024 Government
The Manufacturer & Business Association has announced new additions its 2024-25 Board of Governors, which includes Tricia Staible, president and general counsel of Robins...
May 04, 2024 Business
TOKYO — Nippon Steel said Friday it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice re...
May 03, 2024 International News
CRANBERRY TWP — To recognize the accomplishments within the business community, the Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce handed out six awards Thursday evening, ...
May 03, 2024 Business
ADAMS TWP — The building at 145 Grand Ave. in Mars currently houses a NexTier Bank branch. In a few years, that address may be the new home of the Mars Area Public Librar...
May 02, 2024 Government
Butler resident Gary Falconer was recognized during the Pennsylvania Broadband Summit on April 11, along with Armstrong Utilities, for their partnership with the Healing ...
May 02, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn’t plan to cut interest rates until...
May 02, 2024 Business
Multiple Butler County farmers report their herds are safe from a strain of avian influenza spreading among cattle in several states. As of late April, the strain of high...
May 02, 2024 Agriculture
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford is recalling nearly 243,000 Maverick small pickup trucks in the U.S. because the tail lights may not illuminate. The company says a computer can fa...
May 01, 2024 Business
At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E. coli food poisoning linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk in 19 states, U.S. health offic...
May 01, 2024 Business
Butler County’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate went unchanged from February to March at 2.8%, the lowest in the seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area, a...
May 01, 2024 Business
FORWARD TWP — The township’s planning commission granted final approval on Tuesday evening, April 30, to a sports complex proposed by the Cashdollar family which could be...
April 30, 2024 Government
WASHINGTON — Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She's plann...
April 30, 2024 Business
Real-world experience can be vital to a student’s development, and Slippery Rock University engineering students will be getting just that with a company’s donation of en...
April 30, 2024 Business
PITTSBURGH — On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s ...
April 30, 2024 Business
ORLANDO, Fla. — During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California , Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job ...
April 29, 2024 Business
The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more th...
April 29, 2024 Business
A three-minute drive used to be all the difference between good and bad internet service for one Eau Claire business owner. Tanner Schnur, owner of Piney Hollow Wood Craf...
April 27, 2024 Business
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation issued a news release Friday, April 26, highlighting numerous infrastructure improvement projects which were nearing complet...
April 27, 2024 Business
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania has announced that applications are open for its Give Back Program, which provides retails vouchers to help meet the needs of people...
April 27, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden's administration has delayed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a decision that is certain to infuri...
April 26, 2024 Business
Cleveland-Cliffs announced that in response to industry trends and feedback from customers, the company will publish a “Cliffs Hot Rolled Market Price” via letter to all ...
April 26, 2024 Business
WASHINGTON — The nation’s economy slowed sharply last quarter to a 1.6% annual pace in the face of high interest rates, but consumers — the main driver of economic growth...
April 26, 2024 Business
Residents criticize how decision was made
Residents criticize how decision was made
April 25, 2024 Business
The Butler Makers Market & Events Center will be celebrating the grand opening of its new location at 101 Clearview Circle, Space 325, in Butler from June 9-15. The cente...
April 25, 2024 Business
Consolidated Communications employees volunteered more than 8,700 hours in 2023, supporting nearly 200 organizations across the company’s 20-plus state service area, the ...
April 25, 2024 Business
ADAMS TWP — Residents no longer have to look over their shoulders for loose cattle prowling their yards. At a supervisors meeting on Monday evening, April 22, board chair...
April 24, 2024 Government
FRANKLIN TWP — Losing a friend and colleague is tough enough, but stepping into the job of that friend after their passing is something Erin Bryer never saw coming. Bryer...
April 24, 2024 Business
Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern reported a precipitous decline in first quarter profit, tallying hundreds of million of dollars of expenses in the fallout of its fiery der...
April 24, 2024 National News
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