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Local News
As part of federal efforts to modernize facilities, VA Butler Healthcare Healthcare received funding for nonrecurring maintenance projects happening at the end of this ye...
October 20, 2026 Local News
Steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs, which has a plant in Butler Township, reported its third-quarter earnings results for the period ended Sept. 30. Third-quarter 2026 conso...
October 20, 2026 Local News
The Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce and Butler County Chamber of Commerce are hosting a meet and greet event with state and local officials during its Busin...
October 20, 2026 Local News
WASHINGTON TWP — In the tributaries of Slippery Rock Creek, pollution from mine drainage had been a brewing problem for more than 100 years. Abandoned and unreclaimed min...
October 20, 2026 Local News
The United States has accumulated more than $40 trillion in national debt. That’s a number so large it’s difficult to comprehend, let alone imagine paying back. While gov...
October 20, 2026 Business
BUTLER TWP — Township officials are hoping to offload a few excess vehicles through a bidding process. Supervisors voted 4-0 at a Monday, Oct. 19, township meeting to aut...
October 20, 2026 Local News
MARS — Council members discussed their takes on the possible outcome of the Mars-Adams Township merger vote in November at their meeting Monday. Mayor Gregg Hartung said...
October 20, 2026 Local News
LANCASTER TWP — The township is looking to repair one of the buildings it purchased last year at 600 Perry Highway as part of its plan for a new municipal campus. The bu...
October 20, 2026 Local News
The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale data centers. No co...
October 20, 2026 National News
Last year’s changes to federal eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have led to steeper-than-expected drops in enrollment, causing a k...
October 20, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Other News
EDMONTON, Alberta — Voters in oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, according to referendum results released Tuesday, delivering a boost to...
October 20, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday announced a $25 million program to encourage the public to blow the whistle on suspected fraud ...
October 20, 2026 National News
PARIS — Paris returned to calm on Tuesday after its first quiet night since a weekend marred by France's worst rioting in years, as authorities imposed curfews in several...
October 20, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Kyiv is once again receiving early warnings from its partners following recent Russian missile a...
October 20, 2026 International News
BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian judge on Monday ordered the nation’s government to protect more than 30 historical artifacts that officials removed from exhibits in Bogota...
October 19, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let federal judges quickly determine the legality of immigration-related detentions ...
October 19, 2026 National News
The U.S. airman who died after a rapid fall while rappelling from the rafters of a stadium before a college football game in Texas was a 15-year service member from Georg...
October 19, 2026 National News
TOLEDO, Ohio — Ken Schreiber was 9 when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon in 1969 — a moment he would never forget. Like Armstrong, he too became a military...
October 19, 2026 National News
MADRID — Rising fuel costs, discontent with the state of schools, declining public services and a housing crisis have created perfectly stormy weather for an autumn of pr...
October 19, 2026 International News
PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he has instructed prefects, the government’s regional representatives, to impose “very limited” and “localized” curfe...
October 19, 2026 International News
Sports
Cross country is the most grueling of high school sports in Knoch head coach Shawn McAnallen’s eyes. And Knight senior Carter French is perfectly cast for it. “No oth...
October 20, 2026 Sports
North Catholic’s Christopher Faber and A-C Valley/Union’s Joe Rapp are in the medal hunt after the first round of the PIAA Individual Golf Championships on Monday at Penn...
October 19, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Shortly after hearing their names called in front of record-setting crowds on Pittsburgh’s North Shore at the 2026 draft, the Steelers’ rookie class did what...
October 19, 2026 Professional
The KSAC announced its cross country and girls volleyball all-conference teams Monday. From the Butler County area, Moniteau’s Emily Matz earned girls volleyball KSAC sec...
October 19, 2026 Sports
The game in Paris between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints remains scheduled as planned despite civil unrest in the French capital, the NFL said Sunday. Th...
October 19, 2026 Professional
BUTLER TWP — “The Tortoise and the Hare” is a good fable, but in reality, slower runners don’t win the race. In a sense, Butler senior Brendan Eicher has been like the to...
October 19, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Schedules will be updated throughout the postseason. Monday, Oct. 19 Boys Golf 8:30 a.m. — PIAA I...
October 19, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Community
The Buttercup Garden Club is looking for more women who enjoy gardening, socializing, local trips and lunches to increase the group’s membership. Call Val at 724-355-083...
October 20, 2026 Community
Zelienople Area Public Library has received books and DVDs from the Stuttering Foundation to help people better understand stuttering and cluttering. The materials are in...
October 19, 2026 Community
Slippery Rock University welcomes students, alumni and community members to campus as fall traditions take center stage for the 2026 Homecoming celebration, which will ha...
October 19, 2026 Community
To help individuals and families navigate the holiday season, Lutheran SeniorLife’s Visiting Nurses Association of Western Pennsylvania Hospice will host a holiday grief ...
October 19, 2026 Community
SRU students say personal experience, statistics say good pay and job availability
October 19, 2026 Community
Announcements
The Wayne Street Viaduct, which carries Wayne Street over the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad tracks, Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad tracks and Connoquenessing Creek, op...
October 20, 2026 Time Capsules
In loving memory of our beloved Leo Benson whose birthday is October 20. Another birthday, another year, With precious memories of one so dear, Thoughts today of our live...
October 20, 2026 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of Donnie Reott who passed away eight years ago October 20. Some day I hope to meet you Some day I know not when. To clasp your hand in a better land Ne...
October 20, 2026 In Memoriams
In Loving Memory of Elijah Sutton Cowoski Passing Date-10.20.2024 It has been a two years since we had to start navigating a path forward without you…but you are still wi...
October 20, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Other
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. — Psalm 37:4 ...
October 20, 2026 Verse of the Day
October 19, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
October 19, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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