A piece of history made its way from the U.S. Capitol to Butler County thanks to Zelienople native and former Butler County controller Jack McMillin.
He had pl...
A community came together after the death of Corey Comperatore in July 2024 to create Corey’s Cruise. The event returns Saturday for its second year.
Helen Comp...
Butler County commissioners distributed nearly $750,000 from Butler County’s $5.7-million opioid misuse settlement fund to contractors providing recovery servic...
One person was taken to a hospital following a motorcycle crash Wednesday night, July 22, in Mercer Township.
It appeared the driver of the motorcycle hit a dee...
BUFFALO TWP — Corey Day didn’t think he had a chance 10 laps into the race.
Not long after, he was standing in victory lane, the winner of Wednesday night’s 35t...
Former county controller’s flag flown over U.S. Capitol on nation’s 250th
Former county controll...
Second annual Corey's Cruise honors Comperatore's legacy
Second annual Corey's ...
County commissioners distribute opioid settlement funds
County commissioners d...
1 taken to hospital after Wednesday night motorcycle crash
1 taken to hospital af...
Corey Day completes unlikely comeback to win 35th Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup
A Chicora man is facing charges after police said he stole a vehicle and assaulted the owner when he tried to stop him from taking it.
Alan Connor McDonald, 33, was charg...
A 3-year-old boy was found dead in late June in a Mercer County home, according to state police.
The boy was unresponsive and not breathing when emergency services arriv...
MARS — The new welcome sign in Mars was unveiled on Wednesday, July 22, at the corner of Grand Avenue and Irvine Street, near Stick City Brewing Company.
The sign is the ...
Beginning Thursday, July 23, or Friday, the Butler County Bureau of Elections will send about 6,000 mail-in and absentee ballots to voters for the Aug. 18 special electio...
The Center for Community Resources announced it has received a $20,000 capacity building grant from the Staunton Farm Foundation to support its Cultivating Compliance Cap...
Descendants of Wash and Martha Cranmer Flemming will celebrate their family reunion Saturday, Aug. 1.
The family will convene at noon Aug. 1 at Alameda Park Shelter #13....
One injury was reported in a crash between a vehicle and a skid loader Thursday morning, July 23, in Middlesex Township, according to Butler County Emergency Services dis...
A 17-year-old Taco Bell employee is facing criminal mischief charges after being accused of throwing a fountain drink through a woman’s sunroof in Mercer County.
State p...
Two tornadoes passing through Butler and Lawrence counties Tuesday, July 21, may have looked dangerous, but they didn’t amount to much damage or calls for emergency servi...
The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, is credited with the phrase, “all politics is local.”
That’s been evident last w...
We live in an era when people will invest hard-earned dollars in a stock simply because an anonymous Redditor with a handle like “looksmaxxingtrader” ...
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...
NEW YORK — Stocks of computer chip companies and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom turned back lower Wednesday. Oil prices, meanwhile,...
Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny General, Jefferson, Forbes and Wexford hospitals have earned the highest possible rating from the Society of Thor...
Lightning Hair Lounge & Lifestyle Company of Saxonburg was recently honored by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry and other industry gr...
DETROIT — Winter Storm Uri, the multiday freeze that slammed Texas in February 2021 and pummeled the state’s power grid, has been on Kenneth Kovar’s m...
South College Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township is launching a new program that will allow registered nurses with a bachelor’s in nursing degree a new ...
Butler County Symphony Orchestra will take audiences to the movies with an August concert.
The concert is dedicated to the music of films from every era, including classi...
NEW YORK — Chadwick Boseman’s family is accusing the actor’s widow of mismanaging his estate and want her removed as its administrator.
The beloved Oscar nominee was just...
NEW YORK — Charles Gaines, the author whose book and documentary “Pumping Iron” helped bring professional bodybuilding into the mainstream and introduce Arnold Schwarzene...
LOS ANGELES — A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker's severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” has sold for $3.75 million at auction.
Heritage Auctions announced the resul...
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 — Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers.
The term texting thumb can describe a wide ran...
Most people may never have heard of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome, or CKM, which makes sense, considering the condition was only identified and named in 2023. ...
As yet another heat dome settles over part of the U.S., a depressingly predictable news cycle is unfolding. This week, the headlines will warn of dangerously high tempera...
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...
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...
