For some individuals, an encounter with a police officer can be terrifying or uncomfortable even if they aren’t in trouble with the law.
This is why the Cranbe...
PENN TWP — Township residents packed the municipal building on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to express their opposition to a proposed project planned to be constructed in ...
The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday, Oct. 20, voted to request an increase in the rates U.S. Marshals Service pays to house and transport federal inmates ...
Strong bonds can help sports teams at any level in their quest for a successful campaign. In that regard, Butler girls soccer hit the ground running this season...
Cranberry Township’s Blue Envelope Program a hit in first month
Cranberry Township’s B...
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Penn Township residents concerned about proposed natural gas compressor
Penn Township resident...
Prison board seeks higher rates from U.S. Marshals Service
Prison board seeks hig...
Sister act | Butler girls soccer’s success this season comes at the feet of four...
LANCASTER TWP — Children in Butler County have a new indoor play place to sample: Kidtopia on Perry Highway in Lancaster Township, which opened last month.
At its monthly...
A Butler woman is accused of sending sexually inappropriate photos and engaging in inappropriate acts with a 15 year old while the two were employed at a Cranberry Townsh...
A new law aiming to strengthen Pennsylvania’s consumer protections for telemarketers and robocalls took effect Monday.
The new law, Act 47 of 2026, adds restrictions to m...
A seat on Zelienople Borough Council is vacant as Councilman Steve Schoppe recently stepped down from his role.
Schoppe’s resignation was “reluctantly and unanimously” ac...
SLIPPERY ROCK — A borough council meeting on Tuesday was canceled due to lack of a quorum. A majority of council members, or a quorum, must legally be present at the meet...
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is repaving the Route 422 East to Kittanning ramp off Route 8 in Butler and Center townships Friday, Oct. 23.
The ramp will be ...
As part of federal efforts to modernize facilities, VA Butler Healthcare received funding for nonrecurring maintenance projects happening at the end of this year.
This i...
Steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs, which has a plant in Butler Township, reported its third-quarter earnings results for the period ended Sept. 30.
Third-quarter 2026 conso...
Allegheny Health Network’s Department of OB/GYN opened a specialized care clinic for postpartum patients at West Penn Hospital in Allegheny County.
The clinic aims to ser...
The Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce and Butler County Chamber of Commerce are hosting a meet and greet event with state and local officials during its Busin...
Butler Area School District responded to a threat on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with a modified perimeter lockdown. My understanding of this safety measure ...
How dare President Donald Trump say a 250-day deployment for sailors and Marines aboard the USS Lincoln carrier group “is not nearly long enough.” I w...
The Oct. 9 edition of the Butler Eagle illustrates the positive and negative outcomes of our current ideological division.
We read of the deportation...
As we get older, most of us start paying closer attention to our health. Yet one of the most important steps we can take is also one of the easiest to...
Good Samaritan Hospice, a mission of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, is hosting a free holiday bereavement workshop from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 14.
Th...
The United States has accumulated more than $40 trillion in national debt. That’s a number so large it’s difficult to comprehend, let alone imagine pa...
The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale...
Last year’s changes to federal eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have led to steeper-than-expected drops in enr...
CHICAGO — Tesla has unveiled its new Roadster sports car, which can thrust itself in the air, among other engineering bells and whistles. But drivers ...
I have started to appreciate a little hocus-pocus in the past year or so.
Previously, I wanted nothing to do with jumpscares, suspense or hair-raising tales. The world is...
NEW YORK — Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor in TV and film who often played authority figures but was equally skilled at comedy, notably playing a sad-sack prod...
North American movie theaters were flooded with new films this weekend, including a video game reboot, a big budget survival thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation.
While...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com.
And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
When you gaze at the Butler night sky, especially in the dark countryside, you can see all kinds of “people and creatures” up there.
Right now, there’s a disgraced hunte...
This year’s Zelienople Fall Festival brought together the community for an evening of activities Friday.
The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and fr...
When neighbors walk past Deb West’s patio home in the Meeder neighborhood in Cranberry Township, her front porch catches their attention.
Filled with colorful seasonal fl...
Kathy Garrison has been cancer free for decades now, but her experiences during and after treatment had stuck with her.
One especially impactful struggle for her was in ...
CENTER TWP — When it comes to cancer, Cheryl Schaefer is all about the fight.
Schaefer, 68, of Center Township, has fought uterine, breast and thyroid cancer over the yea...
St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish Catholic nun, spent her life sharing a message of compassion and mercy. At the Slippery Rock parish named for her, sewing ministry volunte...
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...
