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Local News
New charges have been filed against one of two men already facing multiple felony charges for a May 2024 incident in which they are accused of breaking into an elderly wo...
November 19, 2025 Local News
Police in Clarion County apprehended two Butler County fugitives last week for extradition. Chelsea Steele, 34, and Tyler Ealy, 18, were arrested after a search warrant ...
November 19, 2025 Local News
A new bus wash is now set to be constructed on the Butler Transit Authority grounds over the next year, representing the biggest capital expense by the authority in over ...
November 19, 2025 Local News
Educators statewide have expressed support for prohibiting mobile devices in classrooms
November 19, 2025 Local News
A preliminary hearing Tuesday, Nov. 18, was forced to take a recess after a frustrated witness began yelling at the defense attorney when he repeatedly pressed for detail...
November 19, 2025 Local News
The city received a report as part of a program from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development that will help it get grants to further improve the...
November 19, 2025 Local News
The Evans City business community is preparing to give back this holiday season. Dubbed the Evans City Community Christmas Trail, participating Evans City businesses are ...
November 19, 2025 Business
Independence Health System will hold a free hernia education and screening event next month. The event will start at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the Butler Crossroad...
November 19, 2025 Business
As concerns grew over food insecurity during what became the longest government shutdown in United States history, members of a local church took it upon themselves to he...
November 19, 2025 Local News
PITTSBURGH — The new Pittsburgh International Airport officially opened Tuesday, Nov. 18. The new PIT replaces a terminal built for a different era and a single airline....
November 19, 2025 Business
Other News
A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it's sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year. Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesd...
November 19, 2025 National News
HARRISBURG — The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday that it will loan $1 billion to help finance the restart of the nuclear power plant on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile I...
November 18, 2025 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a ...
November 18, 2025 National News
RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal agents will expand their North Carolina immigration crackdown to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state capital said, as Border Patrol...
November 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender...
November 18, 2025 National News
PHILADELPHIA — The turning point in Pennsylvania’s budget impasse, by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s telling, came just before Halloween, when he and leaders in Harrisburg gathered ...
November 18, 2025 Pennsylvania News
KYIV, Ukraine — Friends often ask Mykhailo whether the Ukrainian power plant worker hides in a shelter when Russia bombards the energy system. “If all the turbine operat...
November 18, 2025 International News
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructur...
November 18, 2025 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s i...
November 18, 2025 International News
Sports
Butler County cross country coaches had a difficult decision to make this year when picking the top boys runner of the 2025 season. They choose to pick all three options,...
November 18, 2025 Sports
Butler ice hockey improved to 5-1 with Monday’s 5-1 win over Plum, getting a pair of goals from Greyson Steadman to erase a 2-1 first-period deficit. Corbin Holt was soli...
November 18, 2025 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips knows his league is on uncertain footing when it comes to getting multiple bids to the College Football P...
November 18, 2025 Sports
ATLANTA — A shot at the College Football Playoff is on the line for both No. 15 Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh ahead of a prime-time matchup Saturday night. The Yellow Jack...
November 18, 2025 College
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers might get a chance to say goodbye to one of his favorite places after all. Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday there's a chance Rodgers ...
November 18, 2025 Professional
Starring for one athletic program puts a player in select company. Rachel Frederick Zimmerman managed to do it for three. The native of Hampton Township scored over 1,000...
November 18, 2025 Sports
Editorial
Something really special happened on South Main Street in Butler Saturday morning. A DG Market — offering fresh produce, meat and an expanded grocery section — opened its...
November 19, 2025 Our Opinion
November 19, 2025 Cartoons
For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited h...
November 19, 2025 Other Voices
Community
Nonprofit leaders share what makes an event sensory-friendly
November 19, 2025 Community
The Butler Suicide Coalition is organizing a new group aimed at providing retirees with social outlets. Retired Old Men Eating Out, or ROMEO, is scheduled to meet at 11 a...
November 19, 2025 Community
A member of the Butler Area School District’s board recently released a children’s book featuring a story about Moraine State Park. Cecilia Tomko turned the idea of the f...
November 19, 2025 Community
The Butler Lions Club will start its Christmas tree sale on Black Friday. The sale is open from noon to 5 p.m. on Nov. 28 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 120 Sunset Drive in...
November 19, 2025 Community
Announcements
The barren landscape produced by winter in Western Pennsylvania brought several famous actors and a Hollywood production crew to farms in Butler County in 2008 to film a ...
November 19, 2025 Time Capsules
Arts & Entertainment
BERLIN — Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their career in the 1950s and performed with Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte among...
November 18, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
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November 19, 2025 Daily Photo Gallery
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