Karns City News

The U.S. Postal Service announced today a plan to keep several of the nation's rural post offices open, albeit with shorter hours.

Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that hunters started the 2011 black bear season by taking a preliminary harvest of 1,936 black bears in 52 counties on the first day of the four-day statewide bear season, which was the second season to open on a Saturday.

May 20 -- Pennsylvania expects a plan to address an estimated 77,000 tons of industrial waste dumped in an old strip mine will cost about $1.85 million.

Some jobs will be lost under the Butler County Vocational-Technical School's second 2011-12 proposed budget.