Last year’s changes to federal eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have led to steeper-than-expected drops in enrollment, c...
A former employee accused of stealing more than $48,000 in equipment from the now-closed Miller’s Quality Meats in Butler had his bail changed in two cases to u...
Butler Area School District announced it will conduct an Emergency Communication System test at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The test comes after a Sept. 30 swatting incid...
CRANBERRY TWP — State legislators, county commissioners and other local officials voiced their opinions on a variety of topics Friday at a legislative roundtabl...
1 year after changes: Thousands of Butler County residents have lost SNAP benefi...
1 year after changes: ...
Butler man accused of stealing $48k from former business released before trial
Butler man accused of ...
Butler 13-year-old in national Stan Lee’s Super Kid contest
Butler 13-year-old in ...
Butler Area School District sets communication test for Wednesday
Butler Area School Dis...
State, county, local officials discuss issues at Southern Butler County Business...
MARS — Council members discussed their takes on the possible outcome of the Mars-Adams Township merger vote in November at their meeting Monday.
Mayor Gregg Hartung said...
LANCASTER TWP — The township is looking to repair one of the buildings it purchased last year at 600 Perry Highway as part of its plan for a new municipal campus.
The bu...
BUTLER TWP — Township officials are hoping to offload a few excess vehicles through a bidding process.
Supervisors voted 4-0 at a Monday, Oct. 19, township meeting to aut...
Two Michigan men posing as Spark drivers are accused of stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise in June from Walmart in Cranberry Township, according to police.
Cra...
A person amputated their hand in a lawn mower rollover Saturday, Oct. 17, prompting a response from a medical helicopter and several other emergency responders in Slippe...
Cranberry Township police are requesting the public’s help in identifying the pictured individual who, among others, is suspected of being involved in criminal mischief a...
A portion of Route 228 in Adams Township was temporarily shut down Monday morning, Oct. 19, following a two-vehicle crash that ruptured a fuel tank and caused diesel fuel...
SAXONBURG — Among the vendors at Spooky Streets of Saxonburg on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Saxonburg Museum, Kimberli Rodgers’ tent filled with children’s books and activi...
BUTLER TWP — Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Center’s sixth fashion show gave attendees a chance to peruse some fashionable clothes while supporting a force for addiction recovery i...
Smoked ham, chicken Kiev and sourdough bread were some of the items offered at a special lunch Saturday, Oct. 17, at Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ly...
Butler Area School District responded to a threat on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with a modified perimeter lockdown. My understanding of this safety measure ...
How dare President Donald Trump say a 250-day deployment for sailors and Marines aboard the USS Lincoln carrier group “is not nearly long enough.” I w...
The Oct. 9 edition of the Butler Eagle illustrates the positive and negative outcomes of our current ideological division.
We read of the deportation...
As we get older, most of us start paying closer attention to our health. Yet one of the most important steps we can take is also one of the easiest to...
CHICAGO — Tesla has unveiled its new Roadster sports car, which can thrust itself in the air, among other engineering bells and whistles. But drivers ...
Vape shops across Pennsylvania are preparing for Monday, Oct. 19, when Pennsylvania law enforcement is scheduled to begin enforcing Act 57. The act ba...
West Virginia University Health System has welcomed a new doctor to Butler Memorial Hospital.
Robert McHugh has joined the hospital’s medical staff, e...
Allegheny Health Network has appointed Nipun B. Merchant, a surgical oncologist, researcher and healthcare executive, as the chair of the network’s De...
I have started to appreciate a little hocus-pocus in the past year or so.
Previously, I wanted nothing to do with jumpscares, suspense or hair-raising tales. The world is...
North American movie theaters were flooded with new films this weekend, including a video game reboot, a big budget survival thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation.
While...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com.
And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
When you gaze at the Butler night sky, especially in the dark countryside, you can see all kinds of “people and creatures” up there.
Right now, there’s a disgraced hunte...
NEW YORK — It was something most people have likely done at one time or another: complain to others about feeling judged or dismissed during an interaction, maybe even ta...
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...
