Saxonburg News

About 100 firefighters from 20 volunteer fire companies battled a fire Saturday that destroyed a Butler County fertilizer plant.

Saxonburg tax attorney Larry Rodgers probably has the real reason why Butler County has not reassessed property since 1969, nearly 40 years.

The Knoch High School baseball team experienced a threefold increase in the amount of wins from the 2007 season to this year.

Richard Westley Shoaf, Jr., 59, died Monday, June 23, 2008. Richard was born in Natrona Heights, PA.

County commissioners voted Wednesday to adjust the tax assessment ratio -- and make way for tax increases to come.

For as long as they've been racing cars, there have been pretty girls in Victory Lane to present trophies to the winners.

Local officials said they didn't have a problem with a Butler County commissioners' plan to change the tax ratio because it doesn't mean a tax hike -- yet -- but one local tax attorney likened it to "putting ...

The Alle-Kiski Valley festival season kicked into high gear this week. A few days after the Saxonburg Fireman's Carnival got things started, hundreds of residents took Riverview Memorial Park on Friday night ...

If the Saxonburg Fire Department wanted to make a commercial for its carnival, Jonathan Allen and his son Zayne, 3, would have been perfect for it.

Five communities in one of the fastest-growing areas of Butler County are studying whether to create a regional police department.

Police said a woman with her 9-year-old son in the car robbed a convenience store and fled at high speed before state troopers in Butler County caught her last night.

Fire destroyed a one-story barn Friday morning on Bear Creek Road, but all of the animals housed in it were out to pasture.

A backfiring tractor started a fire Friday morning that destroyed a modern barn along Bear Creek Road.

Even with two languages to choose from, there are things that Mayor Brian Antoszyk and Councilman Mike Lazaroff just can't explain about their recent trip to Germany.

One word resonated with Charles Frampton. His voice hoarse and his emotions running high, the VFW Post 894 commander repeated the word several times.

It was so singular a marvel, so ambitious a feat, that its opening drew the president and a crowd of thousands.

A regional police department may not save as much money as expected -- but it might be a good idea anyway, some local officials said.

Still fighting: South Buffalo Township officials decided to appeal an Armstrong County judge's ruling approving a new shaft for Rosebud Mining Co.

“I'm excited, because this is as far as we've ever gotten”

Officials from Saxonburg and three surrounding townships -- Buffalo, Clinton and Middlesex -- are working toward an answer to a question sparking heated discussions over the region this year: Which is better, ... via PittsburghLIVE.com

A handful of candidates across the Alle-Kiski Valley got enough write-in votes in the primary on April 22 to land them on the general election ballot in November. via PittsburghLIVE.com