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Local News
Technicians at Butler Memorial Hospital said Friday they will stage a five-day strike from May 19 to 24. The announcement came after 235 surgical techs, respiratory thera...
May 08, 2026 Local News
The attorney general’s office is seeking anyone with information they think law enforcement should know about a Cranberry Township man facing charges for trying to arrang...
May 08, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Butler man was sentenced Friday in Butler County Common Pleas Court for hitting a man with a hammer in his Franklin Township apartment. Travis J. Zaborowski, 36, was se...
May 08, 2026 Local News
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler April 28 — Zhamare Lynnell Wyche, 22, of Butler, was charged with one ...
May 08, 2026 Police Reports
The Libertarian Party of Butler County and the Butler County Republican Committee are working together to hold a peaceful demonstration supporting Harrisville Councilwoma...
May 08, 2026 Local News
A team from North Catholic High School took first place in the annual Butler County Envirothon, an environmental education-themed competition held Tuesday, April 28, at A...
May 08, 2026 Education
Butler County Bureau of Elections notified the public of a printing error in roughly 50 absentee or mail-in ballot envelopes Friday, May 8. According to the bureau, less ...
May 08, 2026 Local News
The Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District operated its buildings under a modified lockdown Friday, May 8, out of an “abundance of caution,” according to the superinten...
May 08, 2026 Local News
After facing medical mysteries with her son, a Slippery Rock mother is hoping to connect with the family, friends or doctors of the few others who share his rare conditio...
May 08, 2026 Local News
A Pennsylvania Office of Open Records determination for Butler County to provide the name of a 2-month-old boy who died Nov. 8 in Butler Township to a newspaper has been ...
May 08, 2026 Local News
Other News
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday that he will not resign after bruising elections that saw his governing Labour Party suffer big losses and th...
May 08, 2026 International News
A three-day ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday defused the tensions over a prospective Ukrainian attack on ...
May 08, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — Buzz Aldrin observing a “fairly bright light source” while aboard the Apollo 11. A mysterious object making “multiple 90-degree turns” at a speedy clip. A bl...
May 08, 2026 National News
MADRID — Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canar...
May 08, 2026 International News
Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack knocked it offline, thr...
May 08, 2026 National News
HOMESTEAD, Allegheny County — Retired emergency medical services director Vern Smith, a face familiar to thousands of Butler County residents, was one of six people acros...
May 08, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Sports
The WPIAL released its boys volleyball playoff brackets Friday, and three Butler County teams will be in action beginning next week. In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded ...
May 08, 2026 Sports
Butler has been one of the best baseball teams in the WPIAL and was rewarded as such with the top seed in the Class 6A tournament. The district playoff brackets were rele...
May 08, 2026 Sports
Editorial
May 08, 2026 Cartoons
As summer looms, school districts across Pennsylvania are working to formulate revenue and spending plans for the 2026-27 fiscal year. District administrators will untang...
May 08, 2026 Our Opinion
Education, collaboration key to moving forward
May 08, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Portersville Bible Church Cemetery Association will have its annual meeting at 7 p.m. May 18 in the church, 156 E. Portersville Rd, Portersville. All lot owners are ...
May 08, 2026 Community
The Butler County Genealogical Society will meet at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at its new location, in Saint Andrews United Presbyterian Church on the corner of E. Jeffer...
May 08, 2026 Community
House displays artifacts dating up to the 1950s
May 08, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
Maybe out of fear of putting filmgoers to sleep, the sheep has not been much of a mainstay at the movies. There’s Charles Burnett’s lyrical classic “Killer of Sheep.” You...
May 08, 2026 Reviews
Billie Eilish is levitating. Or so it seems. When the pop star first emerges on screen in the mouthful “Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D),” ...
May 08, 2026 Reviews
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