FRANKLIN TWP — Long before students and professors make their way to campus at Butler County Community College, Brian Opitz has already been up and at it, fixin...
Stainton Forbes and Andrew Gettinger were the engine of Butler’s boys basketball team over the past two seasons. With the former landing on Slippery Rock Univer...
Teachers at Broad Street Elementary School were treated to pizza and cupcakes for lunch Tuesday, May 5, as a show of gratitude for their hard work during teache...
ADAMS TWP ― Mars Area School District residents will not see their taxes go up for the first time in three years.
The district’s board will move forward with a...
WEST MIFFLIN — Winning a WPIAL team track championship is not easy.
It certainly didn’t figure to be for Butler’s boys Tuesday, but the Golden Tornado combined ...
Chamber honors longtime BC3 employee Opitz
Chamber honors longtim...
Butler basketball star Stainton Forbes chooses to continue career at Slippery Ro...
Butler basketball star...
Butler teacher surprised on anniversary of kidney donation
Butler teacher surpris...
Mars Area approves budget with no millage increase
Mars Area approves bud...
In claiming 12th WPIAL team track and field title, Butler boys’ ‘firepower’ come...
The Mars Area High School Fightin’ Planets have earned the title of Best High School Mascot in America as the winner of the 2026 National High School Mascot Brackets comp...
A Callery man is accused of having multiple controlled substances and more than $100,000 in his home.
Robert Girling Ryberg Jr., 76, was charged Saturday, May 2, by Butle...
A GoFundMe has been set up for a 96-year-old woman and her adult son who lost their home in a fire Tuesday morning, May 5, in Summit Township.
Crews battled a trailer fir...
CRANBERRY TWP — On Tuesday, Ethan Nicholas and Scott Timko, candidates for the vacant 12th District seat in the state House of Representatives, participated in a second c...
Trick-or-treat will come a little early this year for residents of Evans City.
Borough council has decided to move the tradition to the 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. window on Hallow...
BUTLER TWP — Most elementary school students don’t spend class time learning about aerodynamics and the physics of flying. But on Tuesday, May 5, 10,000 kids across Penns...
The state Department of Transportation will apply high friction surface treatment to three roads in Butler County this month.
The roads are Route 108 between Interstate ...
In recent months, AHN Grove City has begun offering robotic-assisted knee and hip surgeries, including joint replacements, with the addition of the Mako SmartRobotics sur...
A representative of Verizon said prior service disruptions that affected customers should be fixed.
“The fiber cuts that impacted wireless service for some customers in W...
As the weather finally starts to warm up, there will be more and more outdoor events available throughout the Butler area.
There will likely be sever...
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, b...
Although it sometimes seems like the news is all politics all the time, residents of Butler County should not ignore the upcoming May 19 primary elect...
Spirit Airlines, which abruptly canceled all its future flights over the weekend, secured court approval Tuesday to begin dismantling the once-busy bu...
The robotics pioneer who helped unleash the Roomba vacuum is now betting that you might one day replace your beloved dog or cat with a plush robot tha...
Butler County-based Concordia Lutheran Ministries, a senior residential services provider, has completed its acquisition of six former SpiriTrust Luth...
Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell Monday as Ryan Cohen’s GameStop pursues an about $56 billion takeover of the company, seeing it as ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturda...
Slippery Rock High School’s prom will take place Friday, May 8, at Betsy’s Barn on Cheeseman Farm.
The prom king and queen will be crowned at the grand march at the high...
NEW YORK — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating's most famous race an...
NEW YORK — Doris Fisher, who co-founded the iconic clothing chain The Gap Inc. in 1969 with her late husband Don, has died. She was 94.
Fisher died on Saturday surrounded...
VENTURA, Calif. — Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused h...
“The Drama,” a rom-com that goes bad starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and the synth-pop group MUNA releasing their fourth studio album, “Dancing on the Wall,” are s...
Twenty years after the original, the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Driven largely by women, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” ...
Stephen Harding, an instructor at the Butler Art Center and Gallery, has plenty of ideas for unique, affordable crafts for all ages. From bookmarks to painted terracotta ...
Keller Williams Realty is asking everyone, parent or not, to “run like a mother” this Mother’s Day, May 10, for their annual 5K and one-mile walk at Moraine State Park.
B...
An 18-hole round of golf works up an appetite.
Some of Butler County’s golf courses are known for more than just the quality of their greens, too, and offer different foo...
With high school graduations on the horizon, for many students, it’s time for them and their families to look ahead to the next level of their education journey.
From st...
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...
