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Overflow crowd cancels data center meeting
Forward Township will try again Thursday in maintenance garage
Man wounded at 2024 Trump rally shooting dies
A Moon Township man who was wounded at President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds died Wednesday. James Copenhaver, who was sh...
Father: Butler girl seriously injured in crash still hospitalized, will miss benefit dinner
The Butler girl who suffered a broken spine and traumatic brain injury in an Aug. 3 crash remains hospitalized and won’t be able to attend her benefit dinner Oc...
Bees the buzz at Butler County Farm Bureau’s fall meeting
FRANKLIN TWP — Butler County Farm Bureau members approved a bushel full of policy recommendations Thursday, Sept. 24, at the bureau’s annual fall meeting. The 1...
City approves slate of events for coming months
Butler City Council approved several upcoming events and associated road closures at its meeting Thursday, Sept. 24. The city will hold Butler YMCA’s Turkey Tro...
Overflow crowd cancels data center meeting
Overflow crowd cancels...
Man wounded at 2024 Trump rally shooting dies
Man wounded at 2024 Tr...
Father: Butler girl seriously injured in crash still hospitalized, will miss ben...
Father: Butler girl se...
Bees the buzz at Butler County Farm Bureau’s fall meeting
Bees the buzz at Butle...
City approves slate of events for coming months
City approves slate of...
Top Headlines
The City of Butler is taking steps to improve safety in the Butler City Farmers’ Market parking lot with the purchase of bollards. City council voted 4-0 during its meeti...
September 25, 2026 Local News
Butler County is applying for $930,012 in 2026 Community Development Block Grants for the third phase of the Marion Township sewer project and housing rehabilitation and ...
September 25, 2026 Government
Disc golf enthusiasts in Butler County have one more place to play this fall, as Adams Township officially opened a temporary, three-hole course at its community park on ...
September 24, 2026 Community
Butler County commissioners updated the employee information technology policy and created a committee Wednesday, Sept. 23, to improve security and ensure responsible use...
September 24, 2026 Government
A Cranberry Township man has been charged after police said he sent sexually explicit messages to a member of a private pedophile-catching group who was posing as a 13-ye...
September 24, 2026 Local News
News
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors will vote on a conditional use application for a business seeking permission to use eight “amusement devices” at its existing space. ...
September 25, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Getting pulled over by police is not fun for anyone. But for individuals with autism, communication obstacles or hidden disabilities, it can induce seriou...
September 25, 2026 Local News
With fall and winter months not far away, Mars Area School District is sponsoring its “Bundle Up Butler” winter clothing drive through Friday, Oct. 2. Donations of new a...
September 25, 2026 Local News
One person sustained injury and was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital following a motorcycle crash Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Franklin Township, according to Butler County Emer...
September 24, 2026 Local News
Orchard Hill Church Butler is partnering with the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank to distribute food to those in need Saturday, Sept. 26. Attendees will be directed through...
September 24, 2026 Local News
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Community
October is such a wonderful time of year for stargazing over Butler. Nights are longer and...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Try spinning and weaving by hand for free — no experience needed — Wednesday, Sept. 30, at...
September 24, 2026
The Butler Senior High School homecoming princess and prince will be crowned before the 7 ...
September 24, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, and Winf...
September 24, 2026
The Emerald Isle was looking a little brown around the edges when we arrived in Dublin a d...
September 24, 2026
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Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Winning football is second-nature to Slippery Rock and California (Pa....
 
BUTLER TWP — Through the first 53 minutes of Thursday night’s WPIAL Section 3-4A clash wit...
September 24, 2026
Emma Rivers had six kills and four blocks while teammate Alyssa Patterson tallied eight ki...
September 24, 2026
The WPIAL announced on Thursday dates and sites for 12 of the district’s 14 soccer and foo...
September 24, 2026
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ronny Simon raced home on Spencer Horwitz's eighth-inning sacrifice fly ...
September 24, 2026
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Editorial
September 23, 2026 Cartoons
The recent arrest of a Valencia man who, the FBI claims, planned to carry out an ISIS-inspired mass casualty attack drives home the point terrorism ha...
September 23, 2026 Our Opinion
Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down at the last minute late last month. Apart from the tariffs President Donald Trump announced and whi...
September 23, 2026 Other Voices
September 22, 2026 Cartoons
The Callery Volunteer Fire Company recently approached Callery Borough with a request for a contribution to help support its services. In itself, such...
September 22, 2026 Our Opinion
Business
Ashley Phillips, senior vice president and branch operations leader for First Commonwealth Bank in Cranberry Township, was named a recipient of the Pe...
September 24, 2026 Business
Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO...
September 24, 2026 Business
Independence Health System was named a 2026 Healthiest Employer of Delaware and Pennsylvania honoree, earning the No. 3 overall ranking. The honor cam...
September 24, 2026 Business
Allegheny Health Network has officially established the Roe Green Endowed Chair for Aortic Disease, made possible through a $2.5 million gift from Flo...
September 22, 2026 Business
The Chick-fil-A restaurant just off Route 228 in Adams Township is set to open its doors for the first time at 6:30 a.m. Oct. 1, a news release from t...
September 21, 2026 Local News
Weekend Entertainment
The Tuff Tornado Run takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the top loop of Alameda Park, bringing a 2-mile muddy challenge to children and adults alik...
September 24, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
After being removed from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, Grammy Award winner Macklemore will soon return to the live stage. The rapper has announced “Free Palestine,” a series of...
September 24, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Representatives for Dolly Parton’s estate have been granted an order of protection against the late singer’s nephew and former head of security Bryan Seaver. S...
September 24, 2026 People
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Presley Gerber, the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber, died Sunday morning at age 27. Gerber died at a rehabilitation...
September 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift will once again break records. At the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, she will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honors, becoming the m...
September 21, 2026 People
NEW YORK — CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump's administration days after they were barred from White House grounds, calling the selective ban...
September 21, 2026 National News
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Special Sections
Outdoor air pollution from factories, vehicles and wildfires is harmful for kids. But the air inside homes, schools and other indoor spaces matters, too. Indoor air can ...
September 23, 2026 Special Sections
La Roche University Executive Director of Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning Jennifer Engel said she remembers when a woman, grieving her late husband, said that the ...
September 16, 2026 Special Sections
It isn’t difficult in the Concordia Haven Retirement Apartments to stumble on a resident involved in some form of community service or charity work. Resident Elizabeth Sp...
September 16, 2026 Special Sections
Students must juggle school, work, extracurricular activities
September 16, 2026 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
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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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