The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025:
Butler Area School District - 2 Hour Delay
Freeport Area Sch...
While there have been minor flurries over the past two weeks, Butler County should receive its first significant snowfall of the season starting Tuesday morning...
A GoFundMe for a woman assaulted Friday, Nov. 28, on the porch of her Mercer Street residence is seeking donations to assist with medical and veterinary bills.
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A 17-year-old boy was shot Friday night, Nov. 28, by a man who was killed by police Sunday on Interstate 279 in Allegheny County, Butler city police said Monday...
BUTLER TWP — A house in the Homeacre neighborhood was deemed uninhabitable by firefighters after a large fire damaged much of the structure Monday, Dec. 1.
Six...
School closings and delays for Dec. 2, 2025
School closings and de...
Snow expected Tuesday morning for Butler County
Snow expected Tuesday ...
Woman attacked outside Mercer Street home shares memory from night
Woman attacked outside...
Police say gunman from Friday shooting in Butler was shot, killed by police Sund...
While there have been minor flurries over the past two weeks, Butler County should receive its first significant snowfall of the season starting Tuesday morning, Dec. 2.
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It was a cold morning on Black Friday this year, but that didn’t stop Matt Thurner and his wife from standing in the parking lot of the Five Below in Butler Commons for h...
EVANS CITY — During a meeting on Monday, Dec. 1, members of borough council unanimously approved the 2026 budget without a tax increase.
The millage rate remained steady ...
MARS -- A comprehensive event policy for the borough is expected to be voted on and approved at a borough council meeting Dec. 15.
The passing of the event policy was lis...
A Butler Township woman has been charged with animal cruelty after a dead dog was found in her former residence.
Marissa Claypoole, 25, was charged with felony aggravated...
Jackson Township officials are planning for more than $2 million in stormwater improvements over the next five years as part of the Southwest Butler Stormwater Authority’...
The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency is offering $10 million in grants to nonprofits to protect against hate crimes.
The Nonprofit Security Grant Fund Pr...
Christmas tree farms in Butler County were bustling on Black Friday and through the weekend with people who revel in the smell and the holiday atmosphere that emanates fr...
GIBSONIA, Allegheny County — Even 87 years after it was founded, the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum and its members are still finding ways to make its annual ...
It’s GivingTuesday. It’s the yearly opportunity to pay it forward and do for others what they may not be able to for themselves.
The concept is incred...
There are two big worries when it comes to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. The first is that it will lead to robot overlords that will ...
There are plenty of sophisticated materials that the world is counting on to limit global warming. Polysilicon for solar panels. Rare earth magnets fo...
Driving down Main Street in Zelienople usually takes longer than you would expect. There are three traffic lights on the main drag, but it’s common fo...
South College has cleared 20,000 enrolled students nationwide, marking a major milestone for an institution that continues to expand its campus footpr...
Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Mond...
HONG KONG — China’s factory activity contracted for the eighth straight month in November, according to an official survey on Sunday, underscoring cha...
NEW YORK — Major retail chains and tech companies are offering new or updated artificial intelligence tools in time for the holiday shopping season, ...
NEW YORK — Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spendi...
Join Cranberry Township for its Sensory Friendly Santa Drive-Thru, a holiday experience designed for individuals who prefer a quieter, low-stimulus environment. Sensory S...
Cardi B has turned her fourth baby’s umbilical cord into a golden heart-shaped bracelet, after the rapper welcomed her first child with Stefon Diggs this month.
The verif...
NEW YORK — New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos, including one next to the home stadium of baseball’s New York Mets and another that could see a w...
Tom Stoppard, an acclaimed British playwright who also won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love,” has died, his agency said Saturday. He wa...
“Tell me a story,” the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.” What story, he asks? “Something that moves you.”
She’s made a shrewd c...
The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, ant...
Matt Diesel opened his sports performance facility off Route 19 in Cranberry Township to try and fix something he believed had gone sideways in youth sports.
He said in r...
The holiday season holds a special place at the table. It is where conversation lingers, food becomes more than sustenance and traditions take shape year after year. Whet...
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...
