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Cranberry Township bike rodeo teaches confidence and good riding habits
Annual event offers safety checks and biking challenge for youths
How municipalities across Butler County are getting ahead of data center development
As data centers take center stage in business-development conversations across the country, the Butler Eagle is taking a deep dive into the issues and quest...
Wiebe looks back at 24-hour bike ride for granddaughter
On Wednesday morning, 70-year-old Warren Wiebe set out on a 24-hour journey on his bike through the Great Allegheny Passage to raise funds for research of a rar...
Community Partnership getting help from parent agency amid uncertain future
With local nonprofit Community Partnership Inc.’s status in flux, its parent organization has said it will support the organization in its next steps forward, t...
New lung cancer technology gives BMH doctors hope of quicker diagnoses
Saturday, Aug. 1, is World Lung Cancer Day. In America, lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. According...
Cranberry Township bike rodeo teaches confidence and good riding habits
Cranberry Township bik...
How municipalities across Butler County are getting ahead of data center develop...
How municipalities acr...
Wiebe looks back at 24-hour bike ride for granddaughter
Wiebe looks back at 24...
Community Partnership getting help from parent agency amid uncertain future
Community Partnership ...
New lung cancer technology gives BMH doctors hope of quicker diagnoses
New lung cancer techno...
Top Headlines
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II is poised to reshape the freight and logistics industry, exposing transportation brokers to gre...
August 01, 2026 Business
Two people indicted in November 2024 for their roles in a cross-state heroin and cocaine distribution ring were given state prison sentences Friday in Butler County Commo...
July 31, 2026 Crime & Courts
CRANBERRY TWP — Cindy Austin was 26 years old and looking for a job when she found Nicklas Supply in the newspaper. Thirty-four years later, she is one of the many owners...
August 01, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania American Water is set to begin rehabilitation of its 250,000-gallon elevated water storage tank located at Saxonburg Borough’s municipal building. The upgrad...
July 31, 2026
PennDOT announced restrictions on Interstate 79 in Marshall Township and Franklin Park will continue Tuesday through Friday, Aug. 4-7, weather permitting. Southbound on I...
July 31, 2026 Local News
News
Police said incident began after she denied his sexual advances
July 31, 2026 Local News
Cranberry Township wants to know what community planning topics its residents care about. That’s the focus of the next Cranberry Conversations Series session, set for 6 ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
Each year, millions of dollars from SNAP recipients are drained through skimming fraud across the country. After relying on magnetic strip cards for years, officials in ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp July 17 — Matthew George Born, 44, of Valencia, was charged with one mis...
July 31, 2026 Local News
Multiple development plans also to be considered
July 31, 2026 Local News
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Community
As part of the Steeples and Stacks Heritage Weekend, the Maridon Museum will present a spe...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
BUTLER TWP — Preston Park is a gift that keeps on giving, but it needs some things in retu...
July 31, 2026
Laura J. Doerr Memorial Park in Jefferson Township hosted the first Hard Hats and Home Run...
July 31, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
July 30, 2026
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
July 30, 2026
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Sports
CANTON, Ohio — An hour before the start of the Women’s Football Alliance Pro National Cham...
 
LATROBE — At the time, Broderick Jones thought it was no big deal. Walking off the field i...
July 30, 2026
The high school wrestling postseason calendar just became a bit more crowded. The WPIAL re...
July 30, 2026
Sometimes the run is only part of the fun. Two races this weekend reward finishers with po...
July 30, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Another lefty meant another loss for the Pirates in their rubber match agains...
July 29, 2026
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Editorial
Blue for the Reflecting Pool? How nice! President Donald Trump will do anything to get his name, logo or mark on anything. Who is he kidding? Blue is ...
August 01, 2026 Letters to the Editor
President Donald Trump’s primetime address earlier this month was an embarrassment — not only to Americans who expect seriousness from the Oval Office...
August 01, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The revitalization of Butler’s Main Street may come from a joint effort from the Butler County Chamber of Commerce and Butler Downtown to pursue Main ...
July 31, 2026 Our Opinion
July 31, 2026 Cartoons
Across Pennsylvania, employers are asking a familiar question: Where are the workers? It is the wrong question, or at least an incomplete one. Yes, ma...
July 31, 2026 Other Voices
Business
It’s been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce. Lettuce prices rose sharply in the first half of 2026 due to hot weather in Arizona, w...
July 31, 2026 Business
Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or, eventually, even brake pedals as the...
July 30, 2026 Business
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers impacted by increased input costs and natural disasters that deadlines to apply...
July 30, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, although three officials dissented in favor of higher rates as the ce...
July 29, 2026 Business
At Mars Pizza, the most popular order is still the simplest one. Cheese pizza remains the customer favorite, followed closely by pepperoni. But Mike P...
July 29, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Both Moraine State Park and McConnells Mill State Park have a full schedule of events lined up. That’s a paddlin’ Moraine State Park is offering the following paddle even...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Arlene Smith, one of the first “girl group” stars who as a teenager and a founder of the Chantels co-wrote and sang lead on the 1950s doo-wop classic “Maybe,” ...
July 31, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it. Hart plays a successful New ...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
An upcoming re-issue of The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” album features an unreleased song demo from John Lennon. Pre-orders for the newly mixed rendition of the 1965 record ar...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
PRAGUE — With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “The Odyssey” recording impressive sales around the globe, thousands of Europeans have used it as a new and unexpecte...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
Residents of Mars are already quite familiar with the name “Purvis Brothers,” the 95-year-old family-owned fuel distribution company which also owns the small Planet Mart...
July 29, 2026 Special Sections
Although nearly every township or borough in Butler County has a municipal park or recreation complex of some kind, few — if any — can boast of one quite as expansive as ...
July 29, 2026 Local News
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...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
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. ...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
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,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
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...
November 23, 2022 Local News
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...
July 16, 2022 Local News
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...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
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 ...
August 22, 2023 National News
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...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
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...
February 17, 2023 Business

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