A Freeport man ran over another man with a U-Haul box truck Monday evening, July 20, in Saxonburg, according to police.
Dennis Ellwood Wolff, 74, then drove do...
Butler County residents were able to spot a blue sky on Sunday, July 19, for the first time in nearly a week, following several days of poor air quality as a re...
Buffalo Township police officers will debut 11 body cameras, six built-in car cameras and seven upgraded tasers in the beginning of August, according to the pol...
Patching up a football program sometimes goes far beyond roster numbers and Xs and Os.
Moniteau begins the 2026 schedule Aug. 28 at home against neighboring...
A November trial has been scheduled for a Butler man charged with homicide in the shooting death of another man two years ago outside of an American Avenue home...
Freeport man accused of running over man with U-Haul truck
Freeport man accused o...
Air quality improves heading into new work week
Air quality improves h...
Buffalo Township police to deploy body cameras in August
Buffalo Township polic...
How Moniteau football’s first season under Clay Kohlmeyer is fueling ‘everything...
MARS — Borough Council voted 4-1 in favor of three amendments to the borough’s merger with Adams Township during its meeting Monday, July 20.
Council Member William Lambe...
LANCASTER TWP — The township’s board of supervisors took a major step to address the issue of data center development during its monthly meeting on Monday, July 20, when ...
A Butler man accused of grabbing two children and threatening a parent with a knife had a felony and three misdemeanor charges withdrawn but still pleaded guilty to two s...
CHERRY TWP — Less than a year after being elected to the Moniteau School District’s board of directors, Michael Baptiste resigned Monday evening, July 20.
Moniteau’s scho...
A pizza delivery driver is accused of backing his vehicle into a 9-year-old boy when backing into a driveway in Butler Township.
Nikolas James Anthony Oesterling, 18, of ...
A pedestrian was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday evening, July 20, in Saxonburg, according to Butler County Emergency Communications...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Adams Twp
July 6 — Jeffrey Charles Conway, 58, of Gibsonia, was charged with two m...
Two Franklin Township residents were charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty and neglect after police said their dogs were found emaciated, carrying a parasite and wander...
Three Butler County Community College students who intend to become certified public accountants have received $1,000 scholarships from a Philadelphia-based nonprofit to ...
A Slippery Rock Township couple facing several child endangerment charges and dozens of animal neglect charges was accepted into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Dispositio...
The median house price in Nantucket, Mass., is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in one of the hot...
Attendees of the annual Horse Trading Days in Zelienople didn’t see many, if any, horses over the course of the event. The event’s organizers called o...
Republicans have wanted to abolish the Department of Education since it was established in 1979. Under Secretary Linda McMahon, they’ve come closer th...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his White House have enthusiastically promoted the Freedom Fuel Network, a chain of star-spangled convenience ...
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhe...
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate...
The following are first-place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday, July 11.
Junior 4-H & FFA Exhibitors
Ages 16-21, Morgan Teets, S...
Water utility company Pennsylvania American Water said in a media release the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved a decision on the co...
Below is the schedule for the upcoming Horse Trading Days in Zelienople:
Thursday, July 16
Around Town
Craft and food vendors, 2 to 8 p.m. at Four Corners Park ...
Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira each brought a bit of one of their hits to the World Cup's first halftime show in a whirlwind performance Sunday that also squ...
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challe...
NEW YORK — Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even...
LONDON — Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died. She was 81.
The Irish character actor di...
Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space tr...
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.
Below are the even...
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.
Below are a number...
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.
Butler Area Pu...
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.
Butler Transit Aut...
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK.
Tkachenko,...
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas.
On...
