Eric Christy remembers practicing under a blanket of heat while the dried grass and dirt that made up Butler’s football practice field begged for rain.
Now Butl...
The PIAA golf season tees off Thursday, Aug. 13, jump-starting a two-month quest for local golfers and teams to bring home big wins and maybe district and state...
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Festivities for the 78th annual Butler Farm Show got underway Sunday, Aug. 9, as families led their prize animals into their respective te...
ZELIENOPLE — Glade Run Lutheran Services executives have figured out small children plus big trucks with even bigger horns equal a big turnout.
The nonprofit h...
How Korey Stringer’s death 25 years ago changed Butler County football teams’ ap...
How Korey Stringer’s d...
Meet the 12 boys and girls golfers to watch during the 2026 PIAA golf season
Meet the 12 boys and g...
78th Butler Farm Show officially opens with traditional worship service
78th Butler Farm Show ...
Gray, wet week ahead for Butler County
Gray, wet week ahead f...
Glade Run Food Truck Festival features Touch-A-Truck event
The manufacturer of a lithium battery-powered robotic pool vacuum recalled in April is being sued for more than half a million dollars over a June 2025 fire that an insur...
PENN TWP — Dozens of families from across Butler County came out to Succop Nature Park on Sunday, Aug. 9 to honor their departed loved ones by releasing butterflies into ...
CRANBERRY TWP — Divine Grace Parish’s yearly Family Festival returned on Friday at 4 p.m., kicking off a weekend of family oriented attractions.
From carnival rides and a...
More than 25,000 drivers committed violations regarding school zones and buses from 2021 to 2025, according to data from Pennsylvania Courts.
Over 325 of them were in Bu...
Charges of arson are pending against a Kittanning woman accused of setting a residential structure fire following a domestic incident in Armstrong County, state police sa...
One of Saturday’s headliners of The Shindig Charity Music Festival in Zelienople came all the way from the French Quarter of New Orleans to support charities for Parkinso...
Sophomores through seniors at three Butler County schools can now join those from six others in capitalizing on Butler County Community College’s discounted tuition and f...
Three Independence Health System hospitals — Butler Memorial, Latrobe and Westmoreland — earned a combined 17 “High Performing” ratings, across adult procedures, conditio...
Dave Malarkey was more than just a narrator on the radio informing residents of the news of the day. His love for Butler and its residents, and the individual impact he h...
It’s hard to stock up for school supplies before the start of each school year, but organizations like the YMCA and the school districts themselves ar...
The time has come for the voices of independent voters to be heard in Pennsylvania! Gallup polls show 45% of Americans identify as independents (regar...
A little history on Graham Park pickleball courts: The six original courts were partially funded by public donations and were free to all. Today, ther...
Since its beginnings in the late 1940s in Meridian, supporting the future of agriculture in Butler County has been at the heart of the Butler Farm Sho...
President Donald Trump has revived his threat to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud, according to a l...
OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO Greg Abel spent a significant chunk of the company's massive pile of cash as it invested $10 billion in Goo...
Canadian negotiators are trying to secure a deal with the United States before 50% tariffs on a wide range of goods threatened by President Donald Tru...
NEW YORK — The matching blazer and pants Dani McEwen wore to a job interview at an insurance company felt like a smart choice, until she noticed most ...
NEW YORK — Stocks rose on Wall Street Friday and Treasury yields fell after the government reported that employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last m...
Friendship Presbyterian Church’s Second Saturday Concert will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the church’s community center, 866 New Castle Road, Slippery Rock....
NEW YORK — “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” continued its blistering pace in theaters, collecting $144.5 million domestically over its second weekend, according to studio esti...
HALBERSTADT, Germany — A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage...
“The Purge” for sex is the best way to describe the premise of “One Night Only” unless you prefer Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” for one-night stands.
As the movie anno...
“Tony,” the Anthony Bourdain biopic, is a coming-of-age tale for a modern culinary giant. Set over just a summer, it's also clearly an appetizer. And like all first cours...
Sydney Towle, a social media content creator who projected enduring optimism as she chronicled her life with a rare form of cancer, has died, according to her family. She...
The Butler Farm Show office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.
All gates open at 8:30 a.m.
DAILY ADMISS...
Live music is a staple at the Butler Farm Show. This year, several bands return to the stage for the first time in years, while two bands return from last year.
All of t...
Almost every morning before school, Nolan, Dylan and their mother, Misty, Thurber head down the lane of their Fenelton family farm and, before they hit Route 422, they tu...
One of the most exciting events at the Butler Farm Show is the annual cheese auction, which takes place Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m.
The cheese auction is not only spec...
In 1947, a plowing contest was held on the Jack Roe property in Meridian.
This was the birth of an idea to get the city folk, business owners and farmers together to bett...
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...
