New Britain News

More than 500 young Catholics will convene at the National Shrine of Our Lady Czestochowa in New Britain Township Saturday to celebrate Local World Youth Day.

Chalfont and New Britain are teaming up in hopes of giving kids a less perilous walk to school.

BUCKS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: Laura Kinter of New Britain, and Kathleen Fox of Southampton, received Harold Haldeman Conservation Leadership School Scholarships.

A 73-year-old Trumbauersville man who was sentenced to county jail in February for helping defraud homeowners by posing as a 'Christian' contractor to gain their confidence, was sentenced Tuesday to two-to-five ...

One hundred years ago the first westerner to travel the entire path of the Great Wall of China was a man from Doylestown.

Allentown and New Galena Roads in Bucks County will close today for maintenance work, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.

A woman assaulted a man with a vacuum cleaner and another man attacked a woman at an elementary school in two assaults in Warwick in about a week's span.

Planning is under way for about 12 acres on the banks of the Neshaminy Creek that could become an extension of New Britain Township's West Branch Park.

Hilltown Township -- looking to make better use of a growing park system -- has hired an assistant township manager to oversee parks and recreation programs.

Bill E. Wert III, the parks and recreation director in Newtown Township, will move north to Hilltown next month to start a job that will pay him a starting salary of $68,000, as well as the township's standard benefits package.

Wert, 35, of New Britain Township, will serve as an assistant to new Manager Christopher Christman, who began his $95,000-a-year job in March.

For once, rising food prices might be a good thing. At least two local grocers are offering gas rebates to customers who spend at least $100 in their stores.

Then, the declaration of independence, despite paying rent to live at home. Finally, in May, the Chal-Brit Regional Emergency Medical Services moved out of the Chalfont Fire Co.

Kelly Riegel was a quick study when it came to his position as lead carpenter at Princeton, N.J.-based Pinneo Construction.

Think rising gas prices are giving you trouble? Consider Bucks County government's dilemma: Vehicle fuel spending could be $250,000 over budget by the end of the year if average prices stay above $3.75 a ...

Citing a need for greater efficiency and lower costs, Chalfont and New Britain officials are considering a merger of their police departments.

Cross-county drivers who take shortcuts through New Britain Township can start getting used to tapping the brakes.

Three of Bucks County's seven county-owned covered bridges are about to get a lot less vulnerable to arsonists.

County commissioners voted Wednesday spend $144,999 to replace the roofs of bridges in Tinicum, Solebury and Plumstead townships with fire-retardant cedar shingles.

When completed, four of seven county-owned covered bridges will have flame-resistant roofs, said county Special Projects Director Joe Bush.

Three other bridges-- in Tinicum, New Britain and Springfield townships -- probably will get the same type of shingles when money permits or their roofs need replacement, Bush said. Read more

“It's a great all natural procedure”

Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details on how to look younger fast without needles, surgery, or pain. via Cbs3.com

Lenape Middle School students predicted in 1977 that by 1997, the school would have open-roof buses, nuclear heating and cooling systems, a bubble dome for indoor sports in the winter, lockers with digital ... via PhillyBurbs.com

“It was just a disaster. It was an accident waiting to happen”

The roads in New Britain Township aren't getting any bigger. Neither is the police force patrolling them. via PhillyBurbs.com

“Then the police came a few seconds later and did the same thing. They both went down the hill into the industrial area.”

Three Philadelphia men were charged in an armed robbery in Doylestown Township on Sunday night in which the victim was shot at as he pursued the robbers in his pickup truck. via PhillyBurbs.com