With the worst of the drifting smoke from the Canadian and Minnesota wildfires seemingly in the rearview mirror — at least for the moment — Butler County homeow...
On July 17, the office of state Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47th, announced $250,000 worth of Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) state grants will be award...
The landscape of Pennsylvania high school girls volleyball will look much different this fall.
The PIAA has moved the sport from four to six classes, shrinking ...
Butler County will need to withdraw $3.5 million from its fund balance to meet its 2026 budget expenditures, according to the county budget director.
During a f...
The City of Butler is set to demolish a Main Street property after a court order was issued that will hand the property over to the city.
City council voted una...
Wildfire smoke could have impact on home, commercial HVAC systems and vehicles
Wildfire smoke could h...
State grant will help speed up lake conservation project in Jackson Twp.
State grant will help ...
With PIAA girls volleyball expanding to 6 classes, Butler County teams prepare f...
With PIAA girls volley...
Fund balance money will be needed to balance county’s 2026 budget
When walking up to Grapevine Center’s North Elm Street home this past Thursday, July 23, patrons were greeted by friendly faces all dressed in white Recovery Fest T-shirt...
During this year’s National Emergency Number Association (NENA) conference in Columbus, Ohio, the public safety technology company RapidSOS presented Butler County Emerge...
CRANBERRY TWP — Christmas decorations adorned the Cranberry Community Waterpark on Thursday as holiday-themed music played throughout the day.
The winter vibes on the sun...
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...
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 Aug. 1.
The family will convene at noon at Alameda Park Shelter 13. Shelter 13 is acr...
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 deer, said Co...
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...
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 ...
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 — Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barr...
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...
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...
Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up energy in their...
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 — 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...
