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‘Rain or shine,’ Boots & Grace music festival keeps mood upbeat in Saxonburg
SAXONBURG — The weather on Saturday, Sept. 12, made boots a necessity at the first night of the inaugural Boots and Grace Music Festival, but the steady rain co...
SR VillageFest brings community members of all ages together
SLIPPERY ROCK — The residents that filled downtown Slippery Rock from Cooper Street to Franklin Street on Saturday, Sept. 12, included college students, young p...
Tarbi family holds 2nd annual memorial bike ride for Dylan
BUFFALO TWP -- It has been more than three years since Robin Tarbi lost her 13-year-old son, Dylan, in a traffic accident, and for her, the scars have not yet f...
JayJay Jordan runs for 200 yards, No 13 SRU football blasts East Stroudsburg to open PSAC play
Slippery Rock University put on an offensive show Saturday night in a 59-35 PSAC football victory at East Stroudsburg. DaOne Owens threw for 250 yards and f...
‘Rain or shine,’ Boots & Grace music festival keeps mood upbeat in Saxonburg
‘Rain or shine,’ Boots...
Report shows driver was speeding, drinking ahead of Beacon Road fatal crash
Report shows driver wa...
SR VillageFest brings community members of all ages together
SR VillageFest brings ...
Tarbi family holds 2nd annual memorial bike ride for Dylan
Tarbi family holds 2nd...
JayJay Jordan runs for 200 yards, No 13 SRU football blasts East Stroudsburg to ...
JayJay Jordan runs for...
Top Headlines
PENN TWP – A late summer storm was no match for the family fun, fellowship, food and generally joyful atmosphere on Saturday, Sept. 12, at Penn Township Community Day. Th...
September 13, 2026 Local News
DALLAS — Just steps away from a Republican midterm convention that she slammed as a “farce,” U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., of Montgomery County, said Thursday she was ...
September 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Two people were scalded with boiling water during a Thursday night break-in in Jackson Township, according to township police. Walid Kourami, 33, of Pittsburgh, is facing...
September 11, 2026 Crime & Courts
Building will open after renovations
September 11, 2026 Local News
A man called police just before 4 a.m. Thursday to say he was shot multiple times on Oneida Valley Road in Allegheny Township. State police are investigating the shooting...
September 10, 2026 Local News
News
Pennsylvania became one of the first states to establish an official organization for the U.S. semiquincentennial in 2018, which is also when the organization began fundr...
September 14, 2026 Local News
A man with an arrest warrant for attempted criminal homicide was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals Service and police after attempting to flee arrest for by jumping fro...
September 13, 2026 Crime & Courts
Dispatch reports indicated parts of Slippery Rock Township were experiencing flooding Saturday night. Several stations were dispatched along with the water rescue team t...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Before the first golfers of the day tee off, Tim Tarcha, director of golf at Slippery Rock Golf Club and Events Center, is already making his rounds. He’s checking course...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Two students from Butler County districts are among the semifinalists for the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program in Pennsylvania. Grace Nam, from Mars Area High Sch...
September 12, 2026 Local News
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Community
Jackson Township is hosting its fifth-annual Touch-a-Truck event Saturday, Sept. 26. Get a...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Evans City Public Library will have a book sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18 thro...
September 13, 2026
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initi...
September 11, 2026
Give the board games you have finished playing a new home and find something new for your ...
September 11, 2026
When people wake up in the morning, they want to have something that gives their lives pur...
September 11, 2026
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Sports
PITTSBURGH — Mike McCarthy is pretty much over talking about Joey Porter Jr.'s back and hi...
 
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, Sept. 14 B...
September 14, 2026
CHICAGO — Brandon Lowe hit a tiebreaking two-run single in Pittsburgh's three-run sixth in...
September 13, 2026
PITTSBURGH — T.J. Watt began his 10th season by trying to move past the noise that followe...
September 13, 2026
Mars’ Hailey Long claimed silver in the girls Class 3A race in 18:01, trailing only a domi...
September 12, 2026
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Editorial
September 14, 2026 Cartoons
The attacks on Hugging Face ran from May to late July, yet the details of what actually happened when OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence agents deceived...
September 14, 2026 Other Voices
It’s almost unimaginable that 25 years have passed since that day. To be honest, in the early hours of that day, it was a little uncertain that there...
September 12, 2026 Our Opinion
September 11, 2026 Cartoons
September 09, 2026 Cartoons
Business
NEW YORK — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures tim...
September 13, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON— Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighb...
September 13, 2026 Business
The Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers says it has joined state bankers associations nationwide, urging the U.S. Senate to strengthen provi...
September 12, 2026 Business
CHICAGO — Diesel prices in the U.S. hit yet another record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average as Washington’s war with Iran disrupts the w...
September 11, 2026 Business
CRANBERRY TWP — According to Maria Vianeth Cervantes, Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant was named after her son, Emiliano, just 10 days old when their fir...
September 11, 2026 Local News
Weekend Entertainment
A new organization in the Karns City area is planning a family event for Sunday, Sept. 13. Karns City Communities that Care is organizing KC Strong Community Day, to take...
September 09, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
She hit the high F, held it, then blew out a breath and turned to look back at the band — a quick, disbelieving glance toward her musical director. Some 30,000 people rea...
September 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — “Practical Magic 2" conjured a box-office victory this weekend, opening atop the North American charts nearly three decades after its predecessor grew from...
September 13, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September, but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first s...
September 12, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Ni...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
“The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That's good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
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Special Sections
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?” The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up. Among the stories that seemed de...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
Parkers Appliance sees customers looking for option that best suits need
September 10, 2026 Special Sections
As temperatures begin to slowly drop, Eli Nickerson, HVAC service and installation manager with Armstrong Comfort Solutions, likes to take a cooler, late summer day to wa...
September 09, 2026 Special Sections
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. ALPACAS Showmanship Youth Through 18, Roselyn Knight, Evans City Age 19 & ...
September 05, 2026 Local News
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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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