WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil ...
While others may be focused on New Year’s resolutions or getting back to work, Kierra Barrow kicked off her new year with as good a new development as you can h...
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers threw a go-ahead touchdown pass to Calvin Austin III with 55 seconds left, and the Steelers beat the Ravens 26-24 Sunday night when B...
The holiday season may be over, but cold and flu season has just started.
Hospitalizations for seasonal respiratory illnesses such as influenza, respiratory syn...
Connoquenessing Township supervisors adopted a 2026 budget that does not include a tax increase.
In a 2-0 vote Dec. 29, supervisors approved a balanced $1.2 mil...
Rubio says U.S. won’t govern Venezuela but will press for changes through oil bl...
Rubio says U.S. won’t ...
BMH welcomes Butler’s first baby of 2026
BMH welcomes Butler’s ...
Steelers clinch AFC North, playoff berth after Ravens miss last-second field goa...
Steelers clinch AFC No...
Flu, COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise at Butler Memorial Hospital
Flu, COVID-19 hospital...
No tax increase in Connoquenessing Township budget
One room over from the downstairs kids’ library, children at Zelienople Area Public Library can enter a different world and play a board game in real life.
The library’s...
The Butler YMCA’s wellness center was full of people Saturday, Jan. 3, working out with specific goals in mind — from preparing for upcoming trips to gaining more consist...
A Canadian National Railway train derailed on New Year’s Day, Thursday, near Industrial Drive near Slippery Rock.
According to an incident report from the Pennsylvania Em...
David Johnston was sworn in Friday, Jan. 2, as the new mayor of Saxonburg by an old friend.
In one of his last acts as a full-time Butler County Common Pleas Court judge ...
Travelers on one of Pennsylvania’s busiest highways can expect to pay a bit more starting this weekend.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced Tuesday the 2026 to...
A Prospect man is being held in county jail after an alleged incident on Dec. 31 in which he is accused of physically assaulting his mother and threatening to kill her.
J...
Butler County’s representative’s to the state General Assembly have had a quiet couple months to close out the year on the legislative front.
Here’s a look at legislatio...
With four years of mayoral experience under his belt and the funds to do necessary work, Mayor Bob Dandoy said he’s looking forward to getting Butler back to the place it...
Police found an Ohio man with firearms and controlled substances living inside the attic of a dead man’s apartment on New Year’s Day in Butler, according to charges filed...
Just a few months after a successful event in remembrance of Corey Comperatore, event organizers have found a home in Buffalo Township to plan the 2026 edition.
The C...
History doesn’t just live behind glass in a museum.
That’s proven by the work of Connie Collier and her late husband, Harold, who painstakingly restor...
We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scient...
Seneca Valley School District’s magic does not come from buildings, debt service or administrative plans. It comes from the people inside the building...
As we’re counting down the final hours of 2025, we’re likely to carry out our New Year’s traditions — and there is no shortage of options to choose fr...
It's been a roller coaster of a year for U.S. trade policy.
President Donald Trump launched a barrage of new tariffs in 2025, plunging the U.S. into ...
Butler-based nonprofit Lifesteps has achieved Keystone STAR 4 status in each of its five early care and education locations in Armstrong, Beaver and B...
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks eked out small gains on Wall Street Friday in a wobbly day of trading to kick off the new year.
Markets were mostly quiet on th...
NEW YORK — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired ov...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a New Year's Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and van...
There is a great debate in my family about the relevance of “Same Old Lang Syne,” a song by Dan Fogelberg. It’s right up there with “Celebrate Me Home” by Kenny Loggins a...
The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.”
The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephe...
Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. Starting with the so-called happy ending can only really guarantee a reversal of fortune. In th...
NEW YORK — They’re going to light up 2026 like dynamite: K-pop group BTS’ comeback has an official date.
According to a note shared to social media by the entertainment c...
LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.
The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characte...
Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77.
Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney f...
This holiday season, some shoppers are looking beyond traditional wrapped gifts — the kind that sometimes end up forgotten in the back of the closet — and choosing instea...
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday.
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Catholi...
1. 1971
2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar
3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol”
4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton
5. Jimmy Buffett
6. A Hula-Hoop
7. Paul Giamatti
8. New York C...
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town.
One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
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...
