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A hearing between Falls and Elcon Recycling Services likely will take place in Bucks County Court of Common Pleas this spring, a township official said this week.

The battle to build a controversial waste treatment facility in Falls isn’t over yet.

A hearing between Falls and Elcon Recycling Services likely will take place in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas this spring, a township official said this week.

The company filed an appeal last year after township supervisors voted in April to deny Elcon’s land development application.

The company sought to build a plant to…

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick’s recent statement regarding the rationale for his impeachment vote was insulting to all informed citizens. He claims that impeachment “should happen only after a formal law enforcement investigation where independent, non-partisan factual findings of criminal activity are presented to Congress.” Historically, according to the Congressional Research Service, Report No. R44260, “Impeachment and Removal,” less than one-third of the articles that the House has adopted have explicitly charged the violation of a criminal statute or used the…

Jim Davis’ mission is to resurrect old cemeteries and historic gravestones in Bucks County.

One of the great joys in Jim Davis’ life is rediscovering messages from the dearly departed. That is, those who had departed so long ago that their grave markers have lost inspirational messages due to ravages of the centuries.

Jim is the self-described “Tidy Tombstones” man of Bucks County. His passion is to bring stones back to life, so to speak.

When something really memorable emerges, he’s apt to call pal Sally Sondesky of the Bensalem Historical Society with unbridled…

There isn’t one single reason, according to experts in Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities of Allegheny County. Some point to flooding the county with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Others credit drug treatment programs. Doctors are also prescribing fewer opioid painkillers. The area’s hardest-hit locations are being targeted with public health measures, too. In many ways, the plan is similar to Philadelphia’s, but the results, at least so far, have been different.