Creep it real, goblins and ghouls. Here’s a fang-tastic list of Butler County’s trick-or-treat times. We’ll keep it updated with the haunted happenings all Octo...
A day after Meijer announced it had begun purchasing properties in Western Pennsylvania for future expansion, the Michigan-based grocery store chain formally su...
Some federal services are impacted by the government’s shutdown over the failure to approve a budget or short-term funding resolutions.
U.S. Postal Service oper...
And then, there were two.
North Catholic’s loss to Imani Christian last week leaves just Freeport and Union/A-C Valley as Butler County’s remaining unbeaten tea...
KARNS CITY — Mason Bell is a football player. He’s also a soccer player. A skier, too.
Maybe even a future United States president?
“Now, I’m not saying that,” ...
Butler County’s 2025 Trick-or-Treat Schedule
Butler County’s 2025 T...
Meijer submits initial plan for new location in Cranberry Township
Meijer submits initial...
Some federal services impacted by shutdown
Some federal services ...
High school football Week 7 picks: Knoch vs Mars; can Butler win 2nd straight, U...
High school football W...
Karns City’s Mason Bell carries West Point-worthy workload on soccer, football f...
A former Walmart manager is accused of contacting an employee with a false active shooter alert in the Butler Township store, police said.
A Walmart employee at the Butl...
A 78-year-old Butler man is accused of stealing a woman’s credit cards, license and vehicle from a Butler bar, according to police.
Floyd Kenneth Greenawalt, 78, was cha...
Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company purchased a new Pierce enforcer pumper that can hold up to 700 gallons of water.
The pumper also has a 20-gallon foam cell. The fire...
A former chief radiologist at UPMC Children’s Hospital was sentenced to four years in federal prison and almost $50,000 in fines for possession of child sexual abuse mate...
A Middlesex Township business owner pleaded guilty to four counts of failure to collect payroll taxes for the Internal Revenue Service in a case where he had underpaid ta...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Buffalo Twp
Sept. 15 — Aileen Patrice Arnold, 39, of Freeport, was charged with m...
Butler County Community College’s Succop Theater was feeling Irish spirit Wednesday evening, Oct. 1, with one of the world’s top Irish dance shows.
A Taste of Ireland — ...
A group of more than 300 nurses and technicians at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning voted to ratify new three-year labor agreements with the hospital, thr...
MIDDLESEX TWP — Representatives from natural gas company EQT were present at a supervisors work session on Wednesday, Oct. 1 to clarify a situation in which some township...
CEO says allegations are from program no longer in operation
Multiple lawsuits alleging systemic negligence that enabled child abuse and child sexual abuse more than a de...
Picture this: A congressional hearing on “AI policy” makes the evening news. A senator gravely asks whether artificial intelligence might one day “wak...
Wow. What a show on Tuesday evening at Butler Area School District’s Art Bernardi Stadium.
The Butler County Band Festival — a fall tradition for our ...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy set the tone back in April when he announced the Trump administration’s plan to find the cause of autism. He declar...
NEW YORK — As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government's first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights. ...
NEW YORK — Walmart said Wednesday that it plans to remove synthetic food dyes and 30 other ingredients, including some preservatives, artificial sweet...
After 50 years of operation, Bracken’s Pharmacy, 7 Water St. in East Brady, closed its doors for good this past weekend.
Local residents came out in s...
LONDON — Spotify said Tuesday that founder Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chairman, in an announcement that sent its shares...
WASHINGTON — Pfizer has agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donal...
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative will present four free family music events over coming months.
The first o...
NEW YORK — A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricti...
Actors union SAG-AFTRA is standing strong against the conceit of AI “actor” Tilly Norwood.
The U.S. labor union, which went on strike for 118 days in 2023, on Tuesday re...
After nearly 20 years, the beloved, long-running children’s series “Reading Rainbow” is back, this time on the KidZuko YouTube channel.
The first of four episodes hosted...
Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday...
President Donald Trump says he will slap a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States — a vague directive aimed at protecting a business that America already domin...
Butler Fall Festival, with the help of a nationwide program, is looking to extend its entrepreneurial opportunities to local children this year.
The 49th annual Butler Fa...
Paying off debt requires commitment, patience and a little bit of grace. You’ll need to check in with yourself, carefully review your current finances and utilize the str...
Although they may have several years to go before taking on economics and finances of their own, many high school students not only have jobs where they make money, but h...
A key part of the festivities for the 40th annual Mars Applefest is the Mars Area Public Library’s annual fall book sale, to be held in the library’s community room.
The ...
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...
