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Chamber honors longtime BC3 employee Opitz
FRANKLIN TWP — Long before students and professors make their way to campus at Butler County Community College, Brian Opitz has already been up and at it, fixin...
Butler basketball star Stainton Forbes chooses to continue career at Slippery Rock
Stainton Forbes and Andrew Gettinger were the engine of Butler’s boys basketball team over the past two seasons. With the former landing on Slippery Rock Univer...
Butler teacher surprised on anniversary of kidney donation
Teachers at Broad Street Elementary School were treated to pizza and cupcakes for lunch Tuesday, May 5, as a show of gratitude for their hard work during teache...
Mars Area approves budget with no millage increase
ADAMS TWP ― Mars Area School District residents will not see their taxes go up for the first time in three years. The district’s board will move forward with a...
In claiming 12th WPIAL team track and field title, Butler boys’ ‘firepower’ comes through with clutch performances
WEST MIFFLIN — Winning a WPIAL team track championship is not easy. It certainly didn’t figure to be for Butler’s boys Tuesday, but the Golden Tornado combined ...
Chamber honors longtime BC3 employee Opitz
Chamber honors longtim...
Butler basketball star Stainton Forbes chooses to continue career at Slippery Ro...
Butler basketball star...
Butler teacher surprised on anniversary of kidney donation
Butler teacher surpris...
Mars Area approves budget with no millage increase
Mars Area approves bud...
In claiming 12th WPIAL team track and field title, Butler boys’ ‘firepower’ come...
In claiming 12th WPIAL...
Top Headlines
A GoFundMe has been set up for a 96-year-old woman and her adult son who lost their home in a fire Tuesday morning, May 5, in Summit Township. Crews battled a trailer fir...
May 05, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — On Tuesday, Ethan Nicholas and Scott Timko, candidates for the vacant 12th District seat in the state House of Representatives, participated in a second c...
May 06, 2026 Local News
A Callery man is accused of having multiple controlled substances and more than $100,000 in his home. Robert Girling Ryberg Jr., 76, was charged Saturday, May 2, by Butle...
May 05, 2026 Local News
Trick-or-treat will come a little early this year for residents of Evans City. Borough council has decided to move the tradition to the 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. window on Hallow...
May 06, 2026 Local News
A representative of Verizon said prior service disruptions that affected customers should be fixed. “The fiber cuts that impacted wireless service for some customers in W...
May 05, 2026 Local News
News
BUTLER TWP — Most elementary school students don’t spend class time learning about aerodynamics and the physics of flying. But on Tuesday, May 5, 10,000 kids across Penns...
May 06, 2026 Local News
The state Department of Transportation will apply high friction surface treatment to three roads in Butler County this month. The roads are Route 108 between Interstate ...
May 05, 2026 Local News
In recent months, AHN Grove City has begun offering robotic-assisted knee and hip surgeries, including joint replacements, with the addition of the Mako SmartRobotics sur...
May 05, 2026 Business
96 year old, adult son displaced by blaze
May 05, 2026 Local News
PORTERSVILLE — Borough Councilman Dave Marcyjanik said Portersville has just begun the process of seeking interested candidates for the borough’s next mayor, who will suc...
May 05, 2026 Government
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Community
Butler Senior High School held its annual prom Friday, May 1, at Butler County Community C...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Ed Wahl, a young medic with the Army Air Corps’ 305th Bombardment Group stationed in Chelv...
May 05, 2026
Bruno Zuccala scholarship awarded to students of similar character
May 05, 2026
Joanne Hagofsky, of Armstrong County, published a children’s book she wrote and illustrate...
May 04, 2026
Mars Area High School will have its 2026 prom from 7 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday, May 8, at th...
May 04, 2026
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Sports
Quaker Valley beat reigning champion North Catholic to claim the WPIAL Class 2A Boys Tenni...
 
PITTSBURGH — Bob Skinner, who earned three World Series rings and was named to the All-Sta...
May 05, 2026
NEW YORK — Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Chris Devenski has been suspended three games and f...
May 05, 2026
New opponent and a new venue, but the result was the same for boxer Michael Miles. The But...
May 05, 2026
SEATTLE — Steven Thompson began playing hockey in 2017, but it wasn’t until he met Joey Ga...
May 05, 2026
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Editorial
May 06, 2026 Other Voices
As the weather finally starts to warm up, there will be more and more outdoor events available throughout the Butler area. There will likely be sever...
May 06, 2026 Our Opinion
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, b...
May 06, 2026 Other Voices
May 05, 2026 Cartoons
Although it sometimes seems like the news is all politics all the time, residents of Butler County should not ignore the upcoming May 19 primary elect...
May 05, 2026 Our Opinion
Business
Spirit Airlines, which abruptly canceled all its future flights over the weekend, secured court approval Tuesday to begin dismantling the once-busy bu...
May 05, 2026 Business
The robotics pioneer who helped unleash the Roomba vacuum is now betting that you might one day replace your beloved dog or cat with a plush robot tha...
May 05, 2026 Business
Butler County-based Concordia Lutheran Ministries, a senior residential services provider, has completed its acquisition of six former SpiriTrust Luth...
May 04, 2026 Business
Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell Monday as Ryan Cohen’s GameStop pursues an about $56 billion takeover of the company, seeing it as ...
May 04, 2026 Business
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturda...
May 03, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Freeport Area School District is holding a day of entrepreneurship event Tuesday, May 19, featuring entertainment from several artistic mediums. The Freeport Entrepreneur...
May 06, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating's most famous race an...
May 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Doris Fisher, who co-founded the iconic clothing chain The Gap Inc. in 1969 with her late husband Don, has died. She was 94. Fisher died on Saturday surrounded...
May 05, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
VENTURA, Calif. — Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused h...
May 05, 2026 People
“The Drama,” a rom-com that goes bad starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and the synth-pop group MUNA releasing their fourth studio album, “Dancing on the Wall,” are s...
May 04, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Twenty years after the original, the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Driven largely by women, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” ...
May 03, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
Stephen Harding, an instructor at the Butler Art Center and Gallery, has plenty of ideas for unique, affordable crafts for all ages. From bookmarks to painted terracotta ...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
Keller Williams Realty is asking everyone, parent or not, to “run like a mother” this Mother’s Day, May 10, for their annual 5K and one-mile walk at Moraine State Park. B...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
An 18-hole round of golf works up an appetite. Some of Butler County’s golf courses are known for more than just the quality of their greens, too, and offer different foo...
May 03, 2026 Sports
With high school graduations on the horizon, for many students, it’s time for them and their families to look ahead to the next level of their education journey. From st...
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
Changes introduced under ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
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,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
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...
November 23, 2022 Local News
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...
July 16, 2022 Local News
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...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
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 ...
August 22, 2023 National News
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...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
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...
February 17, 2023 Business

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