BUTLER TWP — Eight-year-old Da’Myah Nesbeth placed her older brother, Kymani Nesbeth, on the top of her Christmas shopping list.
She was among 40 students from ...
WEXFORD — The whistle didn’t sound. Not when Butler needed it, anyway.
With 12 seconds left in Friday night’s WPIAL Section 1-6A opener on the road against Nort...
Spending six hours in a life raft waiting to be rescued in the dark of a November morning somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast in high winds and b...
Jim Chiprean sold shoes by day and played music by night, winning the hearts of shoppers and friends alike while building a life and legacy in Butler.
In an er...
A Slippery Rock Township farm will become a “forever farm” following a designation from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
Meadow Grove Farm, an 88-acre crop fa...
Zelienople officials are planning to redesign Four Corners Park, an undertaking that would be the most significant overhaul of the landmark in years.
The borough, working...
Mars Area School District officials officially broke ground on a long-awaited expansion of the elementary school.
School board members, district administrators and projec...
CRANBERRY TWP — Kevin Meyer never could have envisioned how his career would unfold with the Cranberry Township Police Department after being hired as a patrolman in 1996...
Butler Post Office postmaster Victoria Bowser recommends early mailing of holiday packages.
“We encourage all our customers to mail early with our Ground Advantage option...
Upcoming gas line relocation work on Franklin Road has been pushed back due to weather, the state Department of Transportation announced Friday, Dec. 12.
The work, origin...
Cranberry’s Costco will soon be able to add something new to its shelves.
Cranberry Township supervisors during a meeting on Thursday, Dec. 11, unanimously approved an in...
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission has awarded nearly $4 million in Cultural and Historical Support Grants to 177 eligible museums and official county histor...
Light snow flurries on Saturday, Dec. 13, will give way to steady snowfall in the afternoon and evening before tapering off Sunday when the temperature will fall to well ...
At the end of the year, Cranberry Township will be saying goodbye to Police Chief Kevin Meyer, who has spent nearly 30 years keeping the streets of th...
Vincent Sanzotti’s defense of “democratic socialism” (Dec. 7, Page A4) ignores a basic fact: the United States is a constitutional republic, not a dir...
Just a reminder of what Christmas is all about.
Sometimes we get so busy shopping, baking, decorating and, of course, with good old St. Nicholas. We ...
Last Friday, Dec. 5, my wife and I were at the Texas Roadhouse in the Clearview Mall after a day of shopping. We had a delicious meal and our check wa...
WASHINGTON — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feelin...
Clinton Township is expected to approve its proposed 2026 budget at a special meeting Dec. 22. Revenue and expenditures in the proposed spending plan ...
Pittsburgh-based health care insurer Highmark is adding more than 1 million members to its base, through a proposed affiliation with Blue Cross and Bl...
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company’s Sora video ...
WASHINGTON — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region...
The Harrisville Community Band will present a Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 19.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Harrisville Fire Hall, 313 E. Mercer St., Harrisvi...
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mom on the edge at Christmastime in the new movie “Oh. What. Fun.” If the sarcastic punctuation wasn’t enough of a tipoff, Pfeiffer’s charac...
NEW YORK — A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Shaq is coming back.
And the first-tier Basketball Hall of Famer is going to help sports fans and other interested parties get ready for the Super Bowl...
LONDON — Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 a...
NEW YORK — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.
Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty...
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday.
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Catholi...
1. 1971
2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar
3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol”
4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton
5. Jimmy Buffett
6. A Hula-Hoop
7. Paul Giamatti
8. New York C...
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town.
One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in the spirit this mont...
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...
