Former Butler County resident Mark Pelusi has spent years trying to obtain official documents to solve a century-old family mystery, but bureaucratic red tape i...
The end of the inaugural Steeples & Stacks Heritage Weekend was only the beginning of an art installation which should last for years to come.
Over the two days...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District is taking a proactive approach to cellphone usage in the district’s schools.
The district’s board voted unanimously Mon...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is urging the state House of Representatives to pass sentencing and parole rules for people convicted of second-degree...
Hunter Swidzinski already had a long list of golf accomplishments before the summer began.
After his PIAA championship in 2023, the Butler graduate earned sever...
Butler man fights for transparency in adoption records
Butler man fights for ...
Volunteers work to assemble glass mosaic for Penn Theater following Steeples & S...
Volunteers work to ass...
Butler Area School District advances cellphone ban
Butler Area School Dis...
AG urges House to act on second-degree murder sentence guidelines
AG urges House to act ...
Butler grad Hunter Swidzinski is having a breakout summer on the amateur golf ci...
ADAMS TWP — The township’s board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a 180-day moratorium on six types of businesses during its Monday, July 13, meeting.
The busi...
A Prospect man died Thursday, July 9, from injuries suffered June 29 in a motorcycle crash while he was driving to work in Allegheny County.
Gregory McCauley, 43, died in...
A Lyndora woman is accused of brandishing a knife during a fight in Butler.
Kathryn Lucille Lane, 35, was charged Wednesday, July 8, with felony aggravated assault and m...
The Butler man accused of hiding a body in a stolen garbage can waived his preliminary hearing Monday, July 13, in exchange for a lower bail, which would allow him to wor...
LANCASTER TWP — Township supervisors took two steps toward regulating data centers at their Monday, July 13 workshop meeting.
The supervisors first approved a plan to ha...
JEFFERSON TWP — The township is expected to receive additional financial backing for the ongoing renovation of SEBCO Pool, in the form of a $125,000 contribution from Con...
Leading Slippery Rock Area High School this year will be a team effort.
Slippery Rock Area School Distric has named Jesse Pattison and Shawn Zappia as the high school’s c...
A Butler woman is accused of vandalizing a vehicle with a metal baseball bat.
Michelle Mia Gibson, 54, was charged Sunday, July 12, with one felony count each of aggrav...
A Saxonburg woman is accused of striking a man in the hip with a baseball bat.
Jessica Daryl Krchelich, 38, was charged Monday, July 13, by state police with misdemeanor...
A Mars woman was arrested after police said she kicked her arresting officer in the groin after allegedly trespassing in the Adams Township Municipal Building.
Jennifer L...
Steeples & Stacks is a landmark event for the Butler Cultural District, an initiative that started in 2022 to focus arts and culture in one area of th...
The Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money by late 2032, according to the annual report the program issued last month. The specific date is ...
Well, it’s happened again. For the fifth year in a row, Pennsylvania lawmakers missed the deadline for passing a state budget.
Republicans who control...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Dairy Champions
Supreme Champion Cow, Camp-Run Farms, Fombell
Re...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Champions
Grand Champion Showman, Kai Hess, Slippery Rock
Reserv...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Champions
Supreme Champion Cow, Lydia Kennedy, Cooperstown
Supre...
A quick stop at the grocery store, your local hot dog stand or favorite Italian beef spot and you may experience some genuine sticker shock.
Almost $8...
The Cranberry Women’s Club will host the Farkleberry Craft Show Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center. While the event is several months away, appl...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbusters as he dodged velociraptors in “Ju...
When the young, slightly redheaded 21-year-old George Washington was asked to deliver a message to Virginia, he stopped in what is now Harmony.
A Native American told him...
Say what you will about them, but the Disney live-action remakes have at least given us a choice. Which would you rather see? A spirited, soaring, animated “Moana,” or a ...
French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček vowed when he took charge of the sixth installment in the “Evil Dead” film series that it would be the most brutal. Mission accomplishe...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Below are the even...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Below are a number...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Butler Area Pu...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Butler Transit Aut...
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...
