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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.
Local News
HARRISVILLE — Harrisville’s skate park may be opening as soon as this week after major cracks were sealed in the concrete. Councilwoman Kathy Bray said at the Monday, Jun...
June 09, 2026 Local News
Average gasoline prices in Pennsylvania fell 14.2 cents per gallon over the last week, dropping to $4.32 per gallon on Monday, June 8, according to GasBuddy’s survey of g...
June 09, 2026 Local News
ADAMS TWP — The township board of supervisors will vote on June 22 on whether to approve a joint agreement between the township and the borough of Mars to merge into one ...
June 09, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Zelienople Borough Council passed a motion at their meeting Monday, June 8, to pull $100,000 from the Multimodal Transportation Fund for continued Main Stree...
June 09, 2026 Government
Slupe expresses vindication after change
June 08, 2026 Local News
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple on Monday unveiled new artificial intelligence advances including upgrades to its Siri assistant, emphasizing a focus on privacy and day-to-day ...
June 08, 2026 Business
VA Butler Healthcare will host a veterans Family Picnic at Keystone Safari from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 13. The event is to celebrate veterans and their famil...
June 08, 2026 Local News
Sample cuisine from area restaurants and food vendors, enjoy live music and more at the Taste of the Town event, coming July 13 to the Pittsburgh Event Center, 232 Wise R...
June 08, 2026 Local News
Downtown Butler traffic changes have been announced for Friday’s, June 12, Jeep Invasion, which will kick off the 15th annual Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival. Public parkin...
June 08, 2026 Local News
Emergency services from three counties responded to a fire in the walls and attic of an apartment above a funeral home in Zelienople on Saturday night, June 6. The fire w...
June 08, 2026 Local News
Other News
BOSTON — A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, contradicting an earlier federal court ruling upholding the fee ...
June 08, 2026 National News
PORTLAND, Ore. — Former Sen. Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women’s rights was spoiled at the end of his career...
June 08, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces struck oil facilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials said Monday, as part of their campaign to make Mosc...
June 08, 2026 International News
DAVAO, Philippines — An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 35 people, injuring more than 200 others most...
June 08, 2026 International News
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Boris formed Monday and was expected to bring heavy rain, flooding and possible mudslides to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. Nat...
June 08, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel and Iran appeared to back away from further strikes Monday, hours after they traded fire for the first time since the U.S. agreed to ...
June 08, 2026 International News
(The Center Square) — Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition ...
June 08, 2026 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — When Emma Walz learned she landed an internship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), she ran to the bathroom, jumped up and down, and cried happy...
June 08, 2026 National News
Sports
BOGGS TWP, Centre County — Boden Lenyk was taken aback when his drive cleared the outfield fence at EQT Park during Butler’s WPIAL Class 6A title game win last month. Not...
June 08, 2026 Sports
A Texas judge granted Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction that clears the way for him to play this fall despite being declared ineligible by the ...
June 08, 2026 College
Butler County Community College’s Mitchell Covert shot a 47-over four-round score, finishing tied for 49th in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II...
June 08, 2026 College
Butler is hoping to pull off the biggest upset of the season in the semifinals of the PIAA boys volleyball tournament Tuesday when it faces WPIAL champion and the top tea...
June 08, 2026 Sports
Mars boys lacrosse is trying to make a fifth PIAA tournament championship appearance in the past six years and stands won win away over another district champion. The...
June 08, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, June 8 Baseball 4 — PIAA Class 6A semifinals: Butler vs. 1-2 Owen J. Roberts, at Bald Eag...
June 08, 2026 Sports
Editorial
During a recent conversation, my 16-year-old son told me I did not understand him. Parents know these moments well. What begins as a disagreement about something practica...
June 08, 2026 Other Voices
June 08, 2026 Cartoons
The Jean B. Purvis Community Health Center had a cornhole tournament on Saturday, June 6, which was its first attempt at hosting an event featuring the lawn sport. Only f...
June 08, 2026 Our Opinion
Our tech titans keep telling us that AI is humankind’s most cutting-edge technology ever, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai going so far as to describe its arrival as “more p...
June 08, 2026 Other Voices
Community
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System will host a veterans town hall Wednesday, June 10, at its H.J. Heinz III campus and online via Webex, offering important information about...
June 08, 2026 Community
Residents of the Middlesex Crossing neighborhood will have a two-day garage sale and a one-day bake sale to raise money to donate to the Butler County Humane Society. Mar...
June 08, 2026 Community
Carved stones recovered from channel in May
June 08, 2026 Community
In honor of the country’s semiquincentennial, the borough of Mars is turning its annual Fourth of July event into a two-day America250 celebration, to be held between Fri...
June 08, 2026 Community
Announcements
In memory of our son Patrick Pennington. There’s a date we carry with us in silence- not because it was special but because it changed us forever. People usually remember...
June 09, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — “Schmigadoon!,” an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor Joh...
June 08, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. — Habakkuk 3:19 ...
June 09, 2026 Verse of the Day
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