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Vendors share locally grown product, handmade goods at Slippery Rock Farmers Market
SLIPPERY ROCK — The farmers market drew a good turnout in the sunlit morning of Saturday, May 30. The Slippery Rock Farmers Market, which opened this year on Ma...
Freeport’s takes time to celebrate graduation
Parents and grandparents of Freeport Area School District students got to see them end one life chapter Friday, May 29, and prepare to begin another. At Freepo...
Enforcement of ban against driving while using cellphones begins Friday
Chatty drivers may have their conversations disrupted by police lights and sirens beginning Friday, June 5, when enforcement of Paul Miller’s Law becomes effect...
Valencia grapples with financial issues, looks to St. Barnabas for partnership
Valencia is in negotiations with St. Barnabas Health System to address the southern Butler County municipality’s growing emergency services costs. A potential ...
Vendors share locally grown product, handmade goods at Slippery Rock Farmers Mar...
Vendors share locally ...
Haine chapter of Best Buddies strikes fun and friendship with fundraiser walk
Haine chapter of Best ...
Freeport’s takes time to celebrate graduation
Freeport’s takes time ...
Enforcement of ban against driving while using cellphones begins Friday
Enforcement of ban aga...
Valencia grapples with financial issues, looks to St. Barnabas for partnership
Valencia grapples with...
Top Headlines
Prominent members of the Butler community danced like they’ve never danced before at the “Dancing for a Cause” competition at the Penn Theater Friday night, May 29, organ...
May 30, 2026 Local News
A multimonth, $2 million preservation project for Zelienople Bridge was set in motion on May 20, leading to lane closures on Route 19. Northbound traffic can flow as usua...
May 30, 2026 Local News
A few Butler homeowners woke up this week to find their lawns transformed into a plastic zoo habitat covered in dozens of yard flamingos. Any sense of understandable wond...
May 30, 2026 Community
Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers and ...
May 29, 2026 National News
State police are setting up sobriety checkpoints around Butler County this weekend, according to a Friday, May 29, news release. The checkpoints and DUI enforcement will ...
May 29, 2026 Local News
News
State bill would incentivize districts to switch
May 30, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — At Thursday’s agenda preparation meeting, the board of supervisors voted unanimously in favor of acquiring a 10-acre property for potential future recreat...
May 29, 2026 Local News
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge will issue a decision on a former Middlesex Township man’s challenge of his conviction for raping a Cranberry Township woman in 2...
May 29, 2026 Local News
Nearly a year after city streets flooded as a result of severe thunderstorms, officials are spending big to mitigate future stormwater in a problem area. Butler City Coun...
May 29, 2026 Local News
Will specialize in search and rescue, mental health support
May 29, 2026 Local News
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Community
Parks staff prepare for summer work
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will bring its “iScream” truck to the Butler A...
May 28, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
May 28, 2026
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
May 28, 2026
June stargazing is definitely a late show, with true darkness not setting in over Butler u...
May 28, 2026
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Sports
The PIAA boys volleyball tournament begins Tuesday, with Butler and Seneca Valley in the m...
 
The PIAA track and field season has come to an end. Here’s a look at the Butler County-are...
May 29, 2026
The PIAA boys and girls lacrosse tournaments begin Tuesday, with both Mars teams in the mi...
May 29, 2026
The PIAA baseball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County teams Butler and Moniteau i...
May 29, 2026
The PIAA softball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County’s North Catholic making the...
May 29, 2026
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Editorial
As Seneca Valley once again considers a tax increase for the fourth year in a row, it’s time to ask: are yearly tax increases becoming the new normal ...
May 30, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The Democrats and Republicans envision two different futures for America. When you sift through all the opposing policies and mud-slinging, it all com...
May 30, 2026 Letters to the Editor
May 29, 2026 Cartoons
Butler County first responders know, in a cardiac emergency, every second counts. PulsePoint Respond, a 911-integrated mobile app, is about to give t...
May 29, 2026 Our Opinion
Spring in Pennsylvania is always unpredictable, but this year’s weather has delivered a damaging combination of warm temperatures followed by hard fre...
May 29, 2026 Other Voices
Business
Wall Street pushed further into the record books Friday, as the major stock indexes extended the market’s recent winning streak and closed out a solid...
May 29, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Tomatoes, ubiquitous in everything from fast-food burgers to haute cuisine, are taking on a new role beyond the plate: A nagging reminder o...
May 29, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a liv...
May 29, 2026 Business
Butler Memorial Hospital has officially completed its renovations to its sleep lab, according to Independence Health System. The sleep lab is now loca...
May 29, 2026 Business
LAS VEGAS — Billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for almost $6 billion, a merger that would create one of ...
May 28, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
A community choir — a group that formed under the umbrella of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra — will perform two shows this weekend. The EchoPoint Chorale debuts at ...
May 27, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cul...
May 29, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — A day after the President Donald Trump -affiliated Freedom 250 announced the “first wave” of performers for “The Great American State Fair” shows on Washington...
May 29, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., are...
May 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. The state court in ...
May 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” star’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal d...
May 27, 2026 People
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Special Sections
BUFFALO TWP — Helen Comperatore is dedicated to making Corey’s Cruise 2026 — an event that honors her late husband while giving back to first responders — a smashing succ...
May 27, 2026 Special Sections
Nestled in the woods along Little Buffalo Creek, the Butler Freeport Community Trail spans 21 miles connecting the two municipalities. Open since 1989, the trail gives re...
May 27, 2026 Special Sections
For five months a year, a small patch of Butler County comes alive with the sound of revving engines and thousands of screaming fans. That patch is Lernerville Speedway, ...
May 27, 2026 Special Sections
Birds are returning and flowers are blooming as warmer spring temperatures and rain showers bring wildlife back to the Butler Freeport Community Trail. To one Western Pen...
May 27, 2026 Special Sections
Each course in Butler County seems to offer at least one green that can keep golfers up at night. We polled five courses in the area for the trickiest, toughest greens th...
May 24, 2026 Sports
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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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