Students in Pennsylvania could go to school four days a week following legislation signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro that proponents say would give more flexibility t...
MARION TWP — Diane Carlantonio was worried about how the installation of a sewage system in her hometown of Marion Township would impact the area financially an...
A May trial has been scheduled for an Allegheny County man accused of shooting and killing an Ohio man in Muddy Creek Township nearly two years ago.
The defend...
CENTER TWP — No people were harmed in a fire at 615 Sunset Drive on Wednesday afternoon, April 24, but some dogs and cats that lived in the house were possibly ...
ADAMS TWP — Residents no longer have to look over their shoulders for loose cattle prowling their yards.
At a supervisors meeting on Monday evening, April 22, board chair...
FRANKLIN TWP — Losing a friend and colleague is tough enough, but stepping into the job of that friend after their passing is something Erin Bryer never saw coming.
Bryer...
The USDA is conducting a rapid survey in Western Pennsylvania counties in the Emergency Watershed Protection Program to determine if flooding from recent rain has caused ...
The county commissioners on Wednesday, April 24, agreed to buy a handheld device prison guards, deputy sheriffs, probation officers and police can use to detect and ident...
With the proposal of a fare increase for individual rides on Butler Transit Authority buses, the authority’s board of directors discussed the issue of enforcement at its ...
The county commissioners on Wednesday, April 24, approved an application for a grant of up to $2 million for work at the planned Butler County Aging and Veterans Resource...
CENTER TWP — A portion of Sunset Drive is closed Wednesday, April 24 as crews respond to a reported house fire at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Holyoke Road.
The ...
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
March 31 — Michael S. Mountain, 57, of Butler, was charged with misde...
What are we to make of the anonymous jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York? The practice has long had its critics.
First ...
If you’re searching for insight into the likelihood of a second American civil war, you won’t find it in “Civil War,” a film written and directed by A...
It would be easy to think the primary election held Tuesday, April 23, wasn’t very important, with relatively few contested races and the presidential...
The Butler Makers Market & Events Center will be celebrating the grand opening of its new location at 101 Clearview Circle, Space 325, in Butler from ...
Consolidated Communications employees volunteered more than 8,700 hours in 2023, supporting nearly 200 organizations across the company’s 20-plus stat...
Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern reported a precipitous decline in first quarter profit, tallying hundreds of million of dollars of expenses in the fall...
The former Vero’s Bar, located at 411 E. Locust St. in Butler is being torn down as part of a construction project.
Vero’s was owned and operated by t...
Kelly Auto Group has purchased Major Hyundai in Stroudsburg, which is now known as Kelly Hyundai of Stroudsburg, the auto dealership announced in a ne...
Butler County’s Victim Outreach Intervention Center and Armstrong County’s HAVIN: Helping All Victims in Need are working together host a 5K race and walk in Worthington ...
NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-mov...
WASHINGTON — Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, who both lost loved ones to suicide, on Tuesday helped the Biden administration promote its new national ...
While all eyes (and ears) are on Taylor Swift’s latest album, Stevie Nicks actually put pen to paper for “The Tortured Poets Department.”
The former Fleetwood Mac singer’...
NEW YORK — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
...
Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died. He was 80.
Davis died Satu...
The start of the opioid epidemic is ironically linked to a drug that was supposed to help people suffering from moderate to severe pain.
While oxycodone was first synthe...
Any training that helps people fighting in the battle against opioid addiction is beneficial and helps bring attention to the problem, local officials said.
Numerous free...
Taking care of a car is no different than taking care of a body. Like going to the doctor for a checkup, cars need maintenance to stay healthy.
Alex Skander, owner of Ska...
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — David Carr spends a lot of time in his garage tinkering with his restored classic cars. That’s all right with his wife, Linda, because she’s often ...
Bill Raabe, of Connoquenessing Township, is a self-described “Ford guy,” which he attributes to his late grandfather, Francis Raabe, who owned a 1932 Ford three-window co...
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK.
Tkachenko,...
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas.
On...
