The City of Butler will have road closures both Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 11, for the Steeples & Stacks Heritage Weekend.
On Friday, West North Street and the p...
Motor vehicle traffic in Middlesex Township will be affected by the following road closures which will take place next week, starting Monday, July 13. All of the followin...
Residents of the Slippery Rock area are being invited by the state Department of Transportation to view plans for the Branchton Road bridge replacement project in Slipper...
Over 1,000 West Penn Power customers in the central part of Butler County, including in Center and Butler townships, were without electricity for several hours on Thursda...
A $20,000 grant is meant to help the Slippery Rock Area School District support students interested in special education as a career.
Slippery Rock Area High School was ...
Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. While blood donors are always needed, those with type O blood are especially in need now.
Vitalant, a nonpro...
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in June, but a key measure of home prices climbed to an all-time high, adding to affordability challenges for prospective h...
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week as layoffs in the U.S. remain historically low.
U.S. applications for jobl...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which runs through Saturday.
Nigerian Dwarf
Doe Kid 0-4 Months, Katie Ludwik, Emlenton
Doe 12-24 Months N...
Here’s a look at legislation introduced by Butler County’s delegation to the state General Assembly over the last three months:
Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47th
Vogel, along wit...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
(The Center Square) — For the fifth year in a row, state leaders have failed to meet the June 30 deadline for finishing an annual budget — a situation that will have litt...
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida airport officially changed its name on Thursday to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.
Signs for the Palm Beach I...
Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they t...
KINSHASA, Congo — New suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in parts of Congo that were previously unaffected, the government said Thursday, as the death toll in th...
BEIJING — A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian on Thursday, killing 28 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Chinese ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pl...
