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Saxonburg Winter Festival brings community warmth
SAXONBURG — Despite being officially billed as a “winter festival,” Saxonburg’s Saturday festival saw temperatures of 55 degrees with sunny skies, and thousands...
Karns City girls basketball completes District 9 championship four-peat with rout of Cranberry
CLARION — Three teams have tried to take down this iteration of the Karns City girls basketball dynasty. All have failed. The Gremlins, led by seniors Naomi Ven...
Hotel Saxonburg, Miller’s Meats still waiting for buyers via sheriff sales
The person who chooses to buy the Hotel Saxonburg via a future sheriff sale would immediately take ownership of the historic downtown restaurant. However, they ...
U.S., Israel launch attacks on Iran
The U.S. and Israel began striking targets across Iran, with President Donald Trump urging Iranians to overthrow the government in a conflict that threatens to ...
VA Butler EMS to cease operations
VA Butler Fire and Emergency Services operations within the community will change and its ambulance service will cease operations effective midnight Saturday, F...
Saxonburg Winter Festival brings community warmth
Saxonburg Winter Festi...
Karns City girls basketball completes District 9 championship four-peat with rou...
Karns City girls baske...
Hotel Saxonburg, Miller’s Meats still waiting for buyers via sheriff sales
Hotel Saxonburg, Mille...
U.S., Israel launch attacks on Iran
U.S., Israel launch at...
VA Butler EMS to cease operations
VA Butler EMS to cease...
Top Headlines
As Cranberry Township wraps up a slate of upgrades and new amenities, officials are already setting their sights on the next wave of investments. A step toward those new ...
February 28, 2026 Local News
Butler County Community College will have a new service provider to operate its preschool program starting this fall. Lifesteps — a nonprofit organization that assists c...
February 28, 2026 Local News
JACKSON TWP — A new investment in southern Butler County aims to cut wait times and accelerate prescription delivery for local patients. Allegheny Health Network official...
February 28, 2026 Local News
The City of Butler is close to launching a major update to its online services once some final hurdles are resolved. Councilman Troy Douthett said at a city council meeti...
February 28, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Guests at Woods Lane & Co. got to enjoy a bite of the Mediterranean with no flights needed on Thursday, Feb. 26. A Taste of the Mediterranean workshop, taugh...
February 27, 2026 Community
News
Penn State Extension will offer a free workshop teaching educators how watershed landscapes and human activity influence stream health. The workshop will be offered twice...
February 28, 2026 Local News
VA Butler Healthcare System announced Thursday, Feb. 27, it has begun infrastructure upgrades to ensure safe and effective patient care. In the first quarter of fiscal ye...
February 28, 2026 Local News
Mount Chestnut Christian Preschool invites the community to see what it has to offer. The school, located at 727 West Old Route 422 in Franklin Township, will be hosting ...
February 28, 2026 Local News
Mars Area Elementary School will hold a spring open house from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 5. The open house will give the community a look inside the school. Pa...
February 28, 2026 Local News
The Rotary Butler Cultural District will present a sneak preview of their upcoming heritage weekend at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, at the Penn Theater in Butler. Steeples...
February 27, 2026 Local News
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Community
With record cold gripping much of North America this winter, many who find themselves with...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
February 28, 2026
In November 2024, NexTier Bank donated $40,000 to the Mars Planet Foundation. A portion we...
February 27, 2026
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective c...
February 27, 2026
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Dogs at the Butler County Humane Society may suffer from a little ca...
February 26, 2026
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Sports
Moniteau boys basketball came up a win shy of making the PIAA tournament after a season th...
 
PITTSBURGH — Adrian Lavorini’s final individual swim at the WPIAL Class 2A Swimming Champi...
February 27, 2026
The 2026 Penguins Cup playoffs begin Feb. 23, starting with Class A. Butler takes on North...
February 27, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Jack Hughes knows that at some point, the chaos that has been his life since ...
February 27, 2026
Naomi Venesky and Hanna Dailey have a chance to do what few players get to — finish a ...
February 27, 2026
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Editorial
In a letter published Feb. 7, (“Trump making good on campaign promise,” Page A4) Carl Jones claims that U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s hein...
February 28, 2026 Letters to the Editor
How soon will the government pass a law to ban our youth from social media apps and the spam merchants of smut and gore? Social media is everywhere. P...
February 28, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The MAGA followers loved saying “Sleepy Joe.” But I'm not hearing a peep from them about how the current occupant of the White House is seemingly slee...
February 28, 2026 Letters to the Editor
February 28, 2026 Cartoons
Another news cycle, another barrage of bombs falling from the sky. Another year and the body count continues to climb. Four years on and war still rag...
February 28, 2026 Our Opinion
Business
Students from nine Pittsburgh area school districts gathered at the Westinghouse Global Headquarters in Cranberry Township on Friday to compete in the...
February 27, 2026 Education
Lost old location prior to end of 2025
February 27, 2026 Business
The FirstEnergy Foundation, the charity arm of utility company FirstEnergy, plans to provide a $10,000 grant to Butler County Community College. The f...
February 27, 2026 Business
Independence Health System has added Virginia Singla to the cardiology team at Butler Memorial Hospital, where she will provide specialized care in ca...
February 27, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery has determined that Paramount’s latest takeover offer is superior to the streaming and studio agreement it struck wi...
February 26, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Saturday event raises money for YMCA programs
February 25, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Benson Lu’s life revolves around Pokémon. The 26-year-old has played the mobile game Pokémon Go every day for a decade, watches the animated show every wee...
February 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
If Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s “Man on the Run” is ...
February 28, 2026 Reviews
The big show astronomically in March is another total lunar eclipse, more popularly known as a blood moon, the last one we’ll have for a while. It’ll happen this coming T...
February 28, 2026 Starwatch
NEW YORK — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n' roll and led to a seco...
February 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Actor Bobby J. Brown, best known for his role as Officer Bobby Brown in the hit HBO series “The Wire,” has died at age 62. His daughter confirmed his death to ...
February 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
At Passavant Community in Zelienople, the beauty of kindness arrives on four wheels. Once a month, a pushcart filled with fresh-cut flowers donated by Trader Joe’s makes...
February 18, 2026 Special Sections
Cranking up the volume in your car may sound harmless and fun, but it could lead to hearing problems in your older years -- and possibly even increase your risk of dement...
February 18, 2026 Senior
WASHINGTON — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than...
February 18, 2026 Special Sections
BUTLER TWP — The dance floor may be new for the group of seniors who get together every Monday to line dance together, but the steps remain the same. The senior line danc...
February 18, 2026 Special Sections
BROOKLYN, Ill. — Sr. Julia Huiskamp, all 4 feet and 10 inches of her, oversees everything at the Thomas Terry Community Center: the food pantry, the child care, the fundr...
February 18, 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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