Bucks County News

Though it may lack the glamour of a national campaign, this election year is no less important, especially if you believe in the old adage, "All politics is local." The following are the candidates running for office at the county level and seeking the nomination from the Tuesday's primary .

The latest in impostor scams has hit Bucks County, according to information from the Newtown Township Police.

Prepare your taste buds for a feast that comes just once a year. Bucks County Community College's Tyler Tasting Party will be held June 1 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The 24 th annual event will be held in historic Tyler Hall on the Newtown Campus .

Police and wildlife officers are trying to track down a black bear that's been spotted wandering around several residential areas in suburban Philadelphia for days.

A Bucks County community is on high alert Sunday as there has been yet another black bear sighting, this time in Croydon.

The contractors in charge of building Centennial School District's new Region 2 Elementary School will cover the costs of heat pump damage and construction debris runoff, an official told Patch.

In a meeting room packed with his family, friends and co-workers, Warminster's new Chief of Police James Donnelly III was sworn into his new office Thursday night at the township's board of supervisors meeting.

Doylestown will be featured on live television from 7 to 10 a.m. as part of the Good Day Philadelphia show's "Celebrate Your Town" series.

Residents of the Zimmerman Road and Midway Avenue area of Middletown Township were treated to two black bear sightings in the past week.

Two Shots Fired at Newtown Borough Home, Bucks DA Says No one was injured in a shooting that occurred Monday morning in Newtown Borough.

Eight local residents, promoting themselves as two separate slates or groups, hope to win or retain seats on the Pottsgrove School District Board of School Directors during the November general election.

The national average for self-serve gas has increased for ten straight days to the highest price in more than a month, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report.

Doylestown Borough Police Chief James Donnelly and his son, James Donnelly III, were featured Wednesday on Channel 6 Action News.

The annual First Fourth fireworks were at risk of being cancelled until Piccolo Trattoria stepped up to sponsor the show.

Bucks County District Attorney Dave Heckler said his department is devoting "significant resources" to investigate a shooting Monday in Newtown Borough.

A NEW chairman has been chosen to take the reins at Chepping Wycombe Parish Council after four years under the leadership of Jeff Herschel.

The search is on for a black bear spotted Wednesday in the area of Zimmerman Lane in Hulmeville, Bucks County.

Producers Joey Parnes and Larry Hirschhorn announced today that Christopher Durang 's new comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike , will extend its premiere Broadway engagement at the Golden Theatre by four weeks due to popular demand.

Diane Bartkovich saw the YouTube video of Brooke's story and offered to give her "quiet, happy rest of her life." A big yard with a fence, an overstuffed bed, new collars, and a feline companion await Brooke, the aging black Labrador mix whose plight went viral after a Bristol Township couple found her tied to to a rock in a rising Neshaminy Creek.

The very air we breath is some of the worst in Pennslyvania, at least according to one source.