The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Monday, Dec. 15, 2025:
Butler Area School District - 2 hour delay
Freeport Area School Distri...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Around 350 students with their own unique stories shifted their tassels to the left at Slippery Rock University’s fall 2025 commencement on Saturday, Dec....
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...
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...
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...
WASHINGTON — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall e...
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 era when loc...
Clinton Township is expected to approve its proposed 2026 budget at a special meeting Dec. 22. Revenue and expenditures in the proposed spending plan are balanced at $1,4...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Many political candidates like to talk up their résumé in their stump speech.
Ryan Crosswell reads from his resignation letter.
A former federal prosecut...
A New Jersey law that permits terminally ill people to seek life-ending drugs applies only to residents of the state and not those from beyond its borders, a federal appe...
Butler County resident Cindy Schaltenbrand won people’s choice “Best in Show” in the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation’s “On the Trail” Photo Contest, with a phot...
President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent r...
WASHINGTON — House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prin...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture cap...
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Friday indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t pre...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes had threatened to undo a ceas...
TORONTO — A Canadian man who died in 2019 has been identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, and investigators believe there could be more vi...
