Jeep owners are notorious for customizing their vehicles with lights, bright colors, ducks and more. However, Jill Strong, of Ford City, took it to new heights ...
One person has died following a collision between a car and a flatbed truck in Venango Township on Friday, June 12.
The crash occurred at the intersection of On...
A 28-year-old Volant man died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash shortly after midnight on Friday, June 12, near an Interstate 79 off-ramp in Jackso...
The Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival is underway Friday and continues through the weekend.
Photos from the event will be uploaded through early next week to this g...
UNIVERSITY PARK — A little after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, about three-and-a-half hours before the PIAA Class 6A title game’s first pitch was thrown, a group of six c...
Jeeps overtake downtown Butler for festival’s Jeep Invasion
Jeeps overtake downtow...
1 killed in crash at Oneida Valley Road intersection in Venango Township
1 killed in crash at O...
Volant man killed Jackson Township crash
Volant man killed Jack...
Photos from Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival
Photos from Bantam Jee...
How Butler’s appearance PIAA baseball championship game left impact on next gene...
Before Tim Fennell was Butler County’s Chief Detective, he thwarted a robbery of more than $12,000 in diamond rings from a Main Street jeweler. Another time, he investiga...
More than seven months after a fire destroyed Butler’s former Bantam Jeep building, the city’s mayor said he has heard no updates from the property owner about the future...
Butler residents with a sweet tooth will soon have a new way to satiate their cravings along Main Street.
Jenn and Matt McConnell, co-owners of The Sweet Gremlin bakery,...
A Texas man allegedly reached around a shop counter in Summit Township and attempted to steal a gun while the clerk was distracted, state police said.
Ricardo Abraham Va...
Virginia Shirey, mother of a former Freeport Area School District student who recently died, wants her son’s memory to impact those benefiting from the same programs he d...
Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District is opening new student registration for the 2026-2027 school year from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. July 28 and 29.
Registration is by ...
Both Adams Township and Mars Borough reassured residents that there will be no change to their mailing addresses in the event that the two boroughs enter into their propo...
Knoch School District’s board of directors will hold a special meeting at 7 a.m. Monday, June 22, in the district’s special office building to reapprove the 2026-27 gener...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
A motorcycle crash with injuries prompted multiple emergency services to respond Friday morning, June 12, to Queen Junction Road in Clay Township.
The call came in around...
Each June, our nation takes time for a different sort of holiday. It isn’t focused on family or tradition. It doesn’t directly mark history or honor a...
As the world recognizes 2026 as the United Nation’s International Year of the Woman Farmer, it provides an opportunity to celebrate the countless wom...
In late May, a 12-year-old was severely injured after crashing an e-bike into a vehicle near the intersection of School and Eau Claire streets in Butl...
NEW YORK — The world’s richest man just became its first trillionaire.
Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX soared 25% after opening for tradin...
A new spot for brews and food at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets announced it soft opened Wednesday night, June 10.
Hop Car Brewing announced...
WASHINGTON — Fruit-flavored e-cigarettes recently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration were not significantly better at helping smokers quit...
WASHINGTON — U.S. producer prices climbed last month at the fastest pace since November 2022, fueled by a surge in energy prices after the start of th...
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked up this week to just below its high for the year, the latest sign that borrowing costs on home loans r...
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Jennings Environmental Education Center will have a look at a part of Revolutionary history that is often overlooked — Wester...
LOS ANGELES — When Javoris Hollingsworth looked over his children’s shoulders during the pandemic, he noticed something missing from the educational videos keeping them o...
Last week in Starwatch, I attempted to explain the tricks for finding Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Big Bear and the Little Bear. What complicates things a bit is that t...
Glenn Close will finally get her hands on an Oscar.
Long considered among the best actors to never win one, the eight-time nominee will get an honorary Academy Award...
The streaming service debut of “Michael” and new albums from Olivia Rodrigo and Keith Urban are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near...
NEW YORK — “Schmigadoon!,” an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor Joh...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
A backyard swimming pool can transform a home into a summer destination. Before the first shovel breaks ground, homeowners face a long list of decisions — and a few surpr...
For it’s 35th year, the Strawberry Days festival is ready to continue its legacy as a nonprofit hub of activity in Grove City. Mary Kay Mattocks, event chairwoman, said t...
The Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival is returning to Butler County June 12-14 for its 15th anniversary.
From history to activities, here’s what’s happening at this year’s e...
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...
