Parents and grandparents of Freeport Area School District students got to see them end one life chapter Friday, May 29, and prepare to begin another.
At Freepo...
Chatty drivers may have their conversations disrupted by police lights and sirens beginning Friday, June 5, when enforcement of Paul Miller’s Law becomes effect...
Valencia is in negotiations with St. Barnabas Health System to address the southern Butler County municipality’s growing emergency services costs.
A potential ...
JACKSON TWP — While Seneca Valley Senior High School’s graduating students expressed a triumphant tone, realizing they were finally done with high school, they ...
Freeport’s takes time to celebrate graduation
Freeport’s takes time ...
Enforcement of ban against driving while using cellphones begins Friday
Enforcement of ban aga...
Valencia grapples with financial issues, looks to St. Barnabas for partnership
Prominent members of the Butler community danced like they’ve never danced before at the “Dancing for a Cause” competition at the Penn Theater Friday night, May 29, organ...
A multimonth, $2 million preservation project for Zelienople Bridge was set in motion on May 20, leading to lane closures on Route 19.
Northbound traffic can flow as usua...
A few Butler homeowners woke up this week to find their lawns transformed into a plastic zoo habitat covered in dozens of yard flamingos.
Any sense of understandable wond...
Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers and ...
State police are setting up sobriety checkpoints around Butler County this weekend, according to a Friday, May 29, news release.
The checkpoints and DUI enforcement will ...
CRANBERRY TWP — At Thursday’s agenda preparation meeting, the board of supervisors voted unanimously in favor of acquiring a 10-acre property for potential future recreat...
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge will issue a decision on a former Middlesex Township man’s challenge of his conviction for raping a Cranberry Township woman in 2...
Nearly a year after city streets flooded as a result of severe thunderstorms, officials are spending big to mitigate future stormwater in a problem area.
Butler City Coun...
After months of deliberation, city officials have officially approved the creation of an independent land bank in hopes of rehabilitating problem properties.
Butler City ...
Butler County first responders know, in a cardiac emergency, every second counts.
PulsePoint Respond, a 911-integrated mobile app, is about to give t...
Spring in Pennsylvania is always unpredictable, but this year’s weather has delivered a damaging combination of warm temperatures followed by hard fre...
The City of Butler is working on creating a land bank, but if a similar program in Erie is to be believed, it will probably take a few years before t...
Wall Street pushed further into the record books Friday, as the major stock indexes extended the market’s recent winning streak and closed out a solid...
NEW YORK — Tomatoes, ubiquitous in everything from fast-food burgers to haute cuisine, are taking on a new role beyond the plate: A nagging reminder o...
NEW YORK — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a liv...
Butler Memorial Hospital has officially completed its renovations to its sleep lab, according to Independence Health System.
The sleep lab is now loca...
LAS VEGAS — Billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for almost $6 billion, a merger that would create one of ...
A community choir — a group that formed under the umbrella of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra — will perform two shows this weekend.
The EchoPoint Chorale debuts at ...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cul...
NEW YORK — A day after the President Donald Trump -affiliated Freedom 250 announced the “first wave” of performers for “The Great American State Fair” shows on Washington...
WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., are...
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago.
The state court in ...
LOS ANGELES — Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” star’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal d...
BUFFALO TWP — Helen Comperatore is dedicated to making Corey’s Cruise 2026 — an event that honors her late husband while giving back to first responders — a smashing succ...
Nestled in the woods along Little Buffalo Creek, the Butler Freeport Community Trail spans 21 miles connecting the two municipalities. Open since 1989, the trail gives re...
For five months a year, a small patch of Butler County comes alive with the sound of revving engines and thousands of screaming fans.
That patch is Lernerville Speedway, ...
Birds are returning and flowers are blooming as warmer spring temperatures and rain showers bring wildlife back to the Butler Freeport Community Trail. To one Western Pen...
Each course in Butler County seems to offer at least one green that can keep golfers up at night.
We polled five courses in the area for the trickiest, toughest greens th...
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...
