Read the latest news from today along with all of the articles published yesterday to the website in preparation for the current print edition of the Butler Eagle.
The results are in for this year’s 2025 Readers’ Choice awards.
For 15 years, the Butler Eagle has conducted a Readers’ Choice survey every year to determine the top busi...
The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, and Friday, Jan. 30, 2026:
Butler Area School District - Remote Lea...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Slippery Rock Area school board’s educational programming committee heard a pitch Monday evening, Jan. 26, on what offering the U.S. Army Junior Reser...
Scams involving weather and utility services are on the rise with winter storms sweeping across the state, the Pennsylvania attorney general and Bureau of Consumer Protec...
Butler City police filed charges against two more people in connection with a Jan. 19 shooting that damaged two East Wayne Street apartments.
James M. Dent, 22, of Butler...
A Butler man is accused of mugging someone while possibly carrying a firearm Saturday, Jan. 24, on North Main Street near the intersection of Penn Street in the city of B...
Temperatures including wind chills throughout Wednesday, Jan. 28, are expected to be in the negatives throughout the day, according to a National Weather Service spokespe...
A case focusing on anti-discrimination protections for transgender high school students has raised new controversy: a debate over whether or not attorneys used AI to draf...
Butler Transit Authority will offer limited service options for Wednesday, Jan. 28, as a result of continued weather conditions and unsafe roads.
For local service, only ...
As federal nutrition guidelines shift for the first time in years, local school districts are beginning to assess what the changes will mean for students’ daily meals.
At...
HARRISBURG, Penn., Jan. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — National School Choice Week began on Sunday in Pennsylvania and across the country, focusing on helping parents find the r...
Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a scie...
MILAN — News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U.S. delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Tuesday, according to its neighbors, as the North heightens animosit...
Virginia Oliver, one of the oldest lobster fishers in the world who trapped crustaceans in Maine for nearly a century, has died. She was 105.
Born in Rockland, Maine...
Sen. John Fetterman on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump “to immediately fire” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after federal agents killed two citizens in Minn...
WARSAW, Poland — Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at somber events across Eu...
KYIV, Ukraine — A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed at least two people and wounded 23, including two children and a pregnant wom...
Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, ...
KENNESAW, Ga. — As a deadly storm that brought crippling ice to the South and deep snow to the Northeast finally began to swirl out to sea Monday, it represented light at...
During high school sports games in Butler County, the competition isn’t exclusive to the field. It erupts in the bleachers, too.
Chants collide and school colors clash as...
The size and fervor of a student section can be fluid, as evidenced by the increased numbers attending North Catholic boys basketball games this season.
Senior Gabe Marti...
BUTLER TWP — Anastasia Manchester’s loss to Avella’s Abigail Dolanch at the Trinity Hiller Holiday Duals on Dec. 13 did not stand out because she ended up pinned. Dolanch...
North Catholic boys basketball outscored host Burrell by a combined 18 points in the first and third quarters, sparking a 59-41 victory Tuesday night.
Senior guard Jason...
PITTSBURGH — The tears started early for Mike McCarthy. Really early.
Considering the setting, it was hard to blame him.
There the kid who grew up rooting for the Pittsbu...
Here are the latest cancellations and postponements as of 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27. This schedule will be updated throughout the day as more information is reported.
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Recent stories have highlighted a disturbing trend seen across the nation cropping up right here in Butler County.
Criminal cases against those assaulting health care wor...
The most celebrated early successes of artificial intelligence were computers beating human champions in games such as chess and Go.
Today we are all playing games again...
Hope’s Road, formerly Good Samaritan Hospice’s Youth Bereavement Care, will host a free “Bake Your Heart Out” event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 14, at Flour Power Baking ...
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide will again be offering its free in-person income tax preparation service for low- to moderate-income taxpayers, with special attention given to t...
In loving memory of Gary Matis who passed away six years ago today.
Every day in some small way
We miss you more than words can say.
In our hearts you will always stay
Lo...
Karen McCloy, of Zelienople, angled a 19-inch rainbow trout from underneath a sheet of ice covering the lake at Zelienople-Harmony Sportsmen’s Club on Sunday, Jan. 30, 20...
Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm sectio...
LONDON — Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged action thriller “One Battle After Another” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations...
