Less than three months after a special election between them was decided by fewer than 100 votes, Democratic Rep. Brandon Dukes and Republican challenger Scott ...
With more water problems reportedly occurring at Stackhouse Management’s Rolling Valley Estates, Connoquenessing Township officials are taking strides to bolste...
VALENCIA — Effective Oct. 28, the position of borough mayor will be vacant.
Borough council unanimously approved the resignation of Mayor Lori Trosky at its Mon...
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s (PASSHE) board of governors unanimously approved a request for a 5.5% increase in state funding for the 2027...
Brandon Dukes, Scott Timko face off in PA House 12th District rematch: Here’s wh...
Brandon Dukes, Scott T...
Dukes, Timko debate set for Thursday at BC3
Dukes, Timko debate se...
Connoquenessing Township to enforce, amend mobile home ordinance over Stackhouse...
Connoquenessing Townsh...
Valencia mayor Lori Trosky resigning at end of month, borough council to seek re...
Valencia mayor Lori Tr...
State system universities request 5.5% funding increase for 2027-28
With the price of Halloween costumes rising, the Butler County Young Professionals are back for another year to offer free costumes to children across the county.
The 11t...
JACKSON TWP — One of several grants Seneca Valley’s school board approved applying for at its meeting Monday, Oct. 12, would support Holocaust education events and projec...
ADAMS TWP — The board of supervisors voted during its meeting on Monday night, Oct. 12, to amend the township’s current ordinance on garbage collection to limit hours of ...
A Concord Township man is facing multiple charges after state police said he retaliated against a person he was accused of threatening in a previous case.
Michael Freedl...
An Adams Township man is facing multiple charges after police say they found a firearm reported stolen in his home while investigating a report of fireworks being set off...
Slippery Rock University is receiving grant money for organizations that provide an adaptive sports program for veterans and active-duty service members from the U.S. Dep...
Haine Elementary and Middle School will host a presentation by state police teaching parents how to avoid online predators on social platforms for children, such as Roblo...
ZELIENOPLE — The 41st annual Zelienople Fall Festival took over Main Street between Friday, Oct. 9, and Sunday, Oct. 11. Festival organizer Kadin Riddle estimated that th...
Superheroes and super villains, ghosts and goblins and everything in between took over Alameda Park Saturday morning, Oct. 10, at the Monster Mile Family Walk.
Weeks out...
Jennings Environmental Education Center administrators said there are already people offering to help out with the Old Stone House, which officially b...
Is it acceptable to bring an iced coffee to a job interview?
This seemingly mundane question has somehow consumed various corners of the internet, tak...
When I was sworn in for my latest term in 2025, my team and I immediately hit the ground running. There was no time to waste: the 2017 tax cuts that s...
I’m not a career politician. I’m an Army veteran, engineer, former union member, dad to four girls, youth hockey coach, and Western Pennsylvanian. I s...
WASHINGTON — Bolstered by steady gains in the stock market, families headed by someone aged 75 or older are now America's wealthiest, while the younge...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Mosc...
The Goddard School, a network of private, franchised early childhood education and daycare centers, has named The Goddard School of Cranberry Township...
The board of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) has unanimously approved a request for a 5.5% increase in its 2027-28 state appr...
American furniture and mattress retail chain Bob’s Discount Furniture is preparing to open a new showroom in Cranberry Township.
The new store will op...
Zelienople Fall Festival will take over the borough Friday through Saturday, Oct. 9-11, offering activity throughout each day.
The event will take place from 4 to 9:30 p....
In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord...
It is unfortunate for “The Social Reckoning” that “The Social Network” exists.
The latter is a modern masterpiece. The former was kind of always doomed to exist in its s...
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for his smooth ‘80s hits “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” and “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70.
A stat...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday and charged with battery after a woman he was living with told police he hit her, authorit...
This year’s Zelienople Fall Festival brought together the community for an evening of activities Friday.
The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and fr...
When neighbors walk past Deb West’s patio home in the Meeder neighborhood in Cranberry Township, her front porch catches their attention.
Filled with colorful seasonal fl...
Kathy Garrison has been cancer free for decades now, but her experiences during and after treatment had stuck with her.
One especially impactful struggle for her was in ...
CENTER TWP — When it comes to cancer, Cheryl Schaefer is all about the fight.
Schaefer, 68, of Center Township, has fought uterine, breast and thyroid cancer over the yea...
St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish Catholic nun, spent her life sharing a message of compassion and mercy. At the Slippery Rock parish named for her, sewing ministry volunte...
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...
