The Mars Police Department helped make Christmas magic possible on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
On Tuesday, the police department gathered the toys it had collected throug...
Seneca Valley boys soccer featured a number of players switching positions this season. One of them was senior Owen Eastgate, who began the season in the mi...
Butler County Community College heads into 2026 without having to worry about contract negotiations with faculty members.
The community college’s board of trus...
Buffalo Township’s municipal tax rate will have nearly tripled in the span of four years if the proposed 2026 township budget is approved.
The spending plan cal...
Even though the tax rate in Harrisville is being reduced to correct an error, borough council expects to approve a balanced final budget for 2026 at an upcoming...
Mars Police Department readies collections for Toys for Tots
Mars Police Department...
Seneca Valley boys soccer’s Owen Eastgate player of the year: See 2025 Butler Co...
Seneca Valley boys soc...
BC3, faculty agree to new 4-year contract
BC3, faculty agree to ...
Buffalo Township proposes 3-mill tax increase
Buffalo Township propo...
Harrisville plans balanced budget with tax decrease
An investigation led by the Pennsylvania attorney general found widespread instances where Dollar General overcharged customers at the register.
In a Tuesday, Dec. 9, ne...
PENN TWP — The township is entering a new era next month, without board of supervisors chairman Samuel Ward, who was a member of the board for nearly four decades.
Tuesda...
It’s said that God puts people on Earth for a reason, and Leslie “Les” Martin would say that God put him on Earth to help people through their drug and alcohol problems.
...
Pinewood Memorial Gardens in Cranberry Township is one of 19 cemeteries across Butler County hosting a Wreaths Across America ceremony Saturday, Dec. 13, which has been d...
Fire departments responded Wednesday morning, Dec. 10, to Concordia Lung Care on Marwood Road in Jefferson Township for smoke on the second floor of the building.
Fire d...
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry filed suit against a former Mars delivery business for allegedly not paying 25 employees for their last week of employme...
PENN TWP — Butler Transit Authority continued to upgrade its technology at its final meeting of the year.
The authority’s board voted Tuesday, Dec. 9, to spend $14,060 on...
Jackson Township officials proposed a 2026 budget that holds the general real-estate tax rate steady for the coming year while adding a dedicated half-mill tax to support...
Butler police filed misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges against four people in connection with a fight in the 200 block of Mercer Street — including two people taken t...
Emergency Medical Service providers across Pennsylvania have been struggling for years to fill the funding gap between what it costs every time an amb...
For the first time in the group’s 17-year history, the G20 summit in Johannesburg last month was marked by a complete absence of the United States at ...
We are nearing a tipping point with artificial intelligence. Scientists call it the singularity — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our o...
Camp Bow Wow in Cranberry Township has joined the U-Haul neighborhood dealer network and will offer truck rentals and moving supplies at its location ...
A lumber company is expanding its footprint in Western Pennsylvania with the acquisition of three lumberyards.
Lezzer Lumber, based in Curwensville, ...
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be a...
PepsiCo plans to cut prices and eliminate some of its products under a deal with an activist investor announced Monday.
The Purchase, New York-based ...
Adams Township residents can rest assured their local tax rate will remain intact for at least one more year.
At a special meeting Monday, Dec. 1, the...
Imagine sitting down after a few glasses of eggnog and flipping through every saccharine holiday movie on cable, but then, suddenly, the remote is stuck, the plots are me...
NEW YORK — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.
Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty...
NEW YORK — Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has suggested that a deal struck by Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery “could be a problem” because of the size of the combined mar...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum and...
“Five Nights at Freddy’s” has powered up the box office once again. The sequel opened in 3,412 theaters in the U.S. and Canada this weekend and far surpassed expectat...
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...
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in the spirit this mont...
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...
