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Butler Transit Authority’s board of directors announced a set of changes to the authority’s bus routes and schedule set to go in effect on Feb. 9. Authority executive dir...
January 14, 2026 Local News
The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad has completed repairs to a crossing on a section of railroad it owns at Mars/Evans City Road in Adams Township. Repairs started around...
January 14, 2026 Local News
Butler Area School District will make more investments into agricultural education thanks to a youth agriculture grant from the state. The Pennsylvania Department of Agri...
January 14, 2026 Local News
ADAMS TWP — A wave of coaches, players and parents on Tuesday night flooded the Mars Area School District administration building to advocate for adding a new Pennsylvani...
January 13, 2026 Local News
By all accounts, Doug Hays, 79, of Butler, is lucky to be alive. During his nine-month stint in Vietnam, he was wounded multiple times, enough to receive three Purple He...
January 13, 2026 Local News
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Business News
The discount grocery chain Aldi is expanding rapidly and plans to open more than 180 U.S. stores this year as more Americans skip nights out at restaurants and cook at ho...
January 14, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — Inflation cooled a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell, a sign that stubbornly elevated cost pressures are slowly easing. Consumer prices ro...
January 14, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Hospital officials and union leaders traded barbs Tuesday, but failed to return to the bargaining table on the second day of New York City’s biggest nursing st...
January 13, 2026 Business
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State News
HARRISBURG — A contest that celebrates the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle will get underway Monday at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. The short-in-the-front, lon...
January 13, 2026 Pennsylvania News
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday said she will hold a short hearing in the next two weeks on procedures that police said allowed them to seize and look through Luigi ...
January 12, 2026 National News
Janine Hauck doesn’t know which tick gave her anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. She just remembers the fatigue, weakness and nausea. The Mt. Lebanon, Pa., resident was an av...
January 12, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
NEW YORK — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They're less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys...
January 14, 2026 National News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has ...
January 13, 2026 National News
DETROIT — President Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of his sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, traveling to swing-state Michigan to push the case that he’s boosted ...
January 13, 2026 National News
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International News
NUUK, Greenland — The leaders of Denmark and the country's territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump's calls for the United ...
January 14, 2026 International News
GUANARE, Venezuela — Freedom came too late for Edilson Torres. The police officer was buried Tuesday in his humble, rural hometown following his death in a Venezuelan pri...
January 14, 2026 International News
Reports say more than 2,000 dead
January 13, 2026 International News
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