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Local News
Butler County Community College students have researched topics and created artwork relevant to their academic programs since August will be highlighted through two upcom...
May 02, 2026 Education
DONEGAL TWP — Despite some consistent drizzle on Friday, May 1, The Legacy Barn opened up for it’s third year of hosting prom-goers with free photo backdrops and snacks. ...
May 02, 2026 Local News
Cranberry Township EMS, taking inspiration from Alle-Kiski, is spearheading an initiative its chief believes will improve service and provide yearly funding. The initiati...
May 02, 2026 Local News
While Cranberry Township EMS and municipal leaders are still making plans for a proposed ambulance authority, the Alle-Kiski Emergency Services Authority in nearby Allegh...
May 02, 2026 Local News
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge said she will issue a ruling next week on the county’s appeal of a state Office of Open Records determination that the county mus...
May 02, 2026 Local News
JACKSON TWP — Butler County’s state legislators, all Republicans, expressed support for data center development, energy expansion and infrastructure improvements in the r...
May 02, 2026 Local News
When Parshil Patel took over The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Butler last December, he knew the timing was complicated. Rite Aid had just shuttered locations across the re...
May 02, 2026 Business
Profit for the two largest oil companies in the U.S. tumbled during the first quarter, a three-month period in which the price of crude and gasoline rocketed higher. It’s...
May 01, 2026 Business
A 28-year-old woman is charged with trespass after police said she entered an Adams Township home. Hannah Alexis Cunningham was charged Thursday, April 30, by Adams Town...
May 01, 2026 Local News
Mars Mineral, a company based in Adams Township specializing in pelletizing technology, has shipped a 12th pin mixer for recovered carbon black processing to the European...
May 01, 2026 Business
Other News
It might be a divided lobster, but it has united New Englanders in fascination. A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, spa...
May 01, 2026 National News
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The next bishop for West Virginia Catholics will be an El Salvador-born advocate for immigrants who has opposed U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigrat...
May 01, 2026 National News
The East Brady Area Development Corporation is hosting the 33rd annual Attics & Cellars Days event on Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23, featuring numerous attic, yard a...
May 01, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Pennsylvania 4-H member Sarah Bupp joined four other 4-H members across Western Pennsylvania on a trip to the nation’s capital for the National 4-H Conference, held Frida...
May 01, 2026 Community
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will increase the tariffs charged on cars and trucks from the European Union next week to 25%, a move that coul...
May 01, 2026 International News
AUSTIN, Texas — A small plane carrying pickleball players crashed among trees in Texas Hill Country, killing all five people aboard, authorities said Friday. The crash ha...
May 01, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was questioned by senators during his confirmation hearing about his vision for implementing President Dona...
May 01, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal in the Russian Black Sea city of Tuapse, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Friday, marking the fourth attack targeti...
May 01, 2026 International News
TYRE, Lebanon — Israel carried out several airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Friday, killing at least four people, while the militant Hezbollah group said it fired rocket...
May 01, 2026 International News
Sports
David Belowich watched plenty of swimmers enjoy success in the pool and in life. That’s the success the 1968 Butler graduate revels in even as he’s set to be inducted int...
May 02, 2026 Sports
A quartet of Butler boys made history Friday at the Pine-Richland Track and Field Invitational. In the 4x800-meter relay, Alex Motonis, Logan Rogers, Mateo Saspe and Land...
May 01, 2026 Sports
A season-ending injury is, physically and mentally, a bitter pill for an athlete to swallow. The adversity that struck Graysen Rottman is far worse. Last summer, the curr...
May 01, 2026 Sports
When the high school baseball season ends, Pullman Park won’t be quiet. The ballpark will be busier than ever. While the Butler BlueSox will not be returning — they last ...
May 01, 2026 Sports
Editorial
For Pennsylvania voters registered with either of the two major parties, time is almost up to ensure their voices are heard when selecting candidates to run in the midter...
May 01, 2026 Our Opinion
May 01, 2026 Cartoons
Healthy soil doesn’t usually make headlines, but it should. Beneath every productive farm is a living system that quietly determines whether crops thrive or struggle, wh...
May 01, 2026 Other Voices
Community
My dad didn’t have much success grilling chicken in our backyard when I was growing up, but going to Egypt made me realize what he was trying to emulate: a bird with a cr...
May 01, 2026 Recipes
A 4-year-old from West Sunbury is in the running to be featured in a Ranger Rick magazine — and he is now nearing the final rounds of the competition. Theodore “Teddy” O’...
May 01, 2026 Community
Three Mars Area School District student-athletes will represent Team Pennsylvania at the sixth annual Future Stars Invitational, taking place in August at ADK Bank Center...
May 01, 2026 Community
The largest trout of the day caught during the Boyers Sportsmen’s Association annual fishing derby was reeled in by Miranda Pisor. During the event on Saturday, April 18,...
May 01, 2026 Community
The Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale’s spring concert schedule at Passavant Retirement Community in Zelienople continues throughout the month of May with multiple shows. T...
May 01, 2026 Community
The Keep Conno Clean trash pickup will take place again this spring, with Connoqunessing Township planning to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 16. The meeting location for t...
May 01, 2026 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
May 01, 2026 Senior
Parker Culp, 5, helps advocate for blood donation
May 01, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Nicole Boyle who passed away 10 years ago today. Missing You I wish you could see me now, I have wings, I can fly. I know you miss m...
May 02, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of Berni Sue Hohman May 3, 1973 We think of the joy she left behind, Of her cheery smile and laughter, Those things will live forever. Someday sometime o...
May 02, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Dawn Elizabeth Giza May 3, 1983 - December 12, 2004 Those we love most dear never truly leave us……. They live on in the kindness they showed, The comfort they shared and ...
May 02, 2026 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of my mother, Martha McDaniel McBride, who went to be with the Lord May 3. Letting Go The angels gathered around your bed, So very close to you. Th...
May 02, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of our dear niece, Berni Sue Hohman. We share so many thoughts and memories of your cute and funny ways. They will stay with us forever and always be a s...
May 02, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
There are some early cues that the new animated “Animal Farm” is not your grandmother’s “Animal Farm.” Like when one critter asks, “What's up?” and another says, “Totally...
May 02, 2026 Reviews
Fashion trends are notoriously fickle but some things, like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, never go out of style. So you can see why making “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” t...
May 02, 2026 Reviews
Gerry Conway, a renowned comic book writer who helped create characters and stories for Marvel and DC, including the Punisher character in the Spider-Man comics, has died...
May 01, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
The movies always feel bigger in the summer. The budgets. The ambition. The names. The stakes. This summer, Hollywood has many of the regulars on the lineup: “Spider-Man,...
May 01, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
May 02, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. — Hebrews 11:6...
May 02, 2026 Verse of the Day
May 01, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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