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Local News
BUTLER TWP — With activities from bounce houses to animal shows and a full lineup of food trucks, there was something for everyone to do at Butler Area Community Day. Th...
July 01, 2026 Local News
With Butler County facing extreme heat through Friday, July 3, some organizations have opened their doors to help people get out of the sun. Butler County Area Agency on ...
July 01, 2026 Local News
A 3-year-old child was found dead Saturday, June 27, in a Mercer County home, according to the coroner. The child was pronounced dead around 12:15 p.m. inside a Columbia...
July 01, 2026 Local News
Health officials are encouraging people to use bug spray and mosquito-control efforts as West Nile virus season is off to its earliest and worst start in over two decades...
July 01, 2026 Health
For a celebration as momentous as America’s 250th anniversary, the Butler Eagle spent nearly three years telling the history of the nation, state and county through a spe...
July 01, 2026 Local News
Headquarters in Cranberry Township to stay
July 01, 2026 Local News
The Subway located at Greater Butler Mart in Butler Township is reportedly being shut down due to health violations after an inspection June 29. The Pennsylvania Departm...
July 01, 2026 Local News
Zelienople’s Fourth of July celebrations this weekend could see two world records be broken — that is, if the Zelienople Historical Society can find another videographer ...
July 01, 2026 Local News
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...
July 01, 2026 America 250
Other News
HAMDEN, Ohio — Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around...
July 01, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vess...
July 01, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexuall...
July 01, 2026 National News
Multiday warnings of extreme heat landed in New York, Boston and Philadelphia on Wednesday as sultry weather pushed east just ahead of Fourth of July celebrations in a re...
July 01, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Two people got to the top of the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner about “the power of love” at midday Wednesday, before starting to descen...
July 01, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest — and vice versa. Happy hour reveler...
July 01, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces struck Russia's major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. Almost dail...
July 01, 2026 International News
A new recall from Ford Motor Co. is affecting hundreds of thousands of pickups and SUVs over concerns about potential damage to the vehicles’ parking system, and it could...
July 01, 2026 National News
Sports
Cameron Varner allowed just three hits in a complete-game effort as Butler’s 12U Little League all-star baseball team defeated Franklin 6-1 Wednesday to clinch the Distri...
July 01, 2026 Sports
Jon Livermore, on Krendale West’s 145-yard No. 2 hole, using a gap wedge. ...
July 01, 2026 Sports
The girls lacrosse scene in Butler County this spring featured prolific goal scorers, players who possess the ability to set up teammates for success and defenders with a...
July 01, 2026 Sports
Editorial
July 01, 2026 Cartoons
The felony environmental charges filed last month against the owners of Capital Environmental Risk Transfer Alliance (CERTA) and the business itself for the 2022 release ...
July 01, 2026 Our Opinion
Have you ever voted for a politician who said we should censor the media or ignore court rulings? What about a candidate who encouraged or joked about political violence?...
July 01, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Viewers of the Hobnob Theatre Company’s new production will be swept back in time to the 1920s alongside the film’s main character, encountering how the town and its peop...
July 02, 2026 Community
The Butler County Dairy Promotion team has chosen its Dairy Promotion Court for 2026-27. The court will consist of Dairy Maids Emmalyn Schaffner and Margaret LeViere; Dai...
July 01, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People, co-wrote the disco group’s classic hits “Y.M.C.A.,” ″Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” and delighted crowds while...
July 01, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will be a featured speaker at the 2026 Moon2Mars Foundation Summer Speaker Series on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, at Point Park...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
The Jackson Community Foundation will host Taste of the Town from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 13, at the Pittsburgh Event Center, 232 Wise Road, Suite 110, Harmony. A celeb...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
45-minute fireworks display to commemorate anniversary
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
“Liberty” is a word we hear ad nauseam this time of year, and 250 years into “the Great Experiment,” it may behoove us to examine it. Henry David Thoreau famously said “d...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Public schools...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
July 01, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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