Using past health battles as an inspiration to help others, a local fourth-grader and his father are advocating for state legislation that would require insuran...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP, Lawrence County — Through weighing, grinding, cleaning and every other step of the process, visitors to McConnells Mill State Park have the o...
It’s been tough to match Justin Garvey’s success the past couple years.
No Butler County boys tennis player has had as much individual and team postseason succe...
For people who don’t like tea, sampling multiple teas made from plants at Moraine State Park while learning plant identification, and the inventions and wars ca...
Mars fourth-grader, father advocate for legislation to insure prosthetics and or...
Mars fourth-grader, fa...
Butler County’s Act 13 impact fee revenues jump in 2025
Butler County’s Act 13...
McConnells Mill gristmill gives visitors the opportunity to walk through a piece...
McConnells Mill gristm...
Butler County’s boys tennis 2026 all-stars: North Catholic’s Justin Garvey is 2-...
Butler County’s boys t...
Walk teaches about tea made from Moraine State Park plants
“Yabba dabba doo!”
Echoes of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s were heard at both Zelienople and Mars public libraries Saturday, June 20, as the libraries offered different cartoo...
One person was flown and another taken by ambulance to Pittsburgh hospitals after a motorcycle and vehicle collided Saturday afternoon on Route 422 in Franklin Township. ...
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania government has a $5.7 billion problem and close observers of those running the state don't anticipate seeing a full solution when the 2...
MARS — The town square received a patriotic upgrade Friday with the installation of a flagpole that will fly the American flag and an America250 flag during the borough’s...
A New Brighton man is facing attempted homicide charges after firing a gun at a gas station in Beaver County and prompting a search in Cranberry Township.
Jalen Isaiah ...
A helicopter was requested after a motorcycle and car collided Saturday, June 20, near the intersection of Route 422 and Unionville Road in Franklin Township.
The crash ...
BUTLER TWP — A successful wrestler himself at Slippery Rock University, Scott Stoner has developed many a mat man in more than 30 years as Butler Senior High School’s hea...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Adams Twp
June 9 — Hannah Alexis Cunningham, 28, was charged with misdemeanor loit...
Our nation is experiencing a coordinated push to fuse one particular brand of Christianity with state power. A key driver is the New Apostolic Reforma...
As a volunteer who helps with the annual Butler Bike Blessing, held May 9, at the Lyndora American Legion Post 778, I want to add some more informatio...
A good way to both support a vital community institution and make some great summer memories is to attend the upcoming Saxonburg Fireman’s Carnival.
T...
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Washington and Europe expected a quick Russian victory.
Russia’s population...
On July 20, Bernie Hall will be sitting across the table from Nippon Steel — whose takeover of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel one year ago he did not sup...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to...
Global consumers want more protein in every bite, but the dairy industry is struggling to give it to them.
Athletes and older adults have long used s...
Rising energy demand is reshaping how engineers think, design and build, but not in the same way across every corner of the industry. And not at the s...
BANGKOK — World shares were mixed Friday and U.S. futures declined as optimism over the U.S.-Iran deal to end their war was dimmed by the postponement...
The Harmony Borough Parks Board’s Summer Concert Series begins Thursday, June 18, with a performance by This, That and the Other Thing. The show will begin at 7 p.m. in t...
NEW YORK — Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars a...
NEW YORK — “Toy Story” still has a friend in moviegoers.
The fifth installment in the Pixar series debuted with $160 million in domestic ticket sales, according to st...
The “Toy Story” movies, like “Star Wars” and those games Michael Jordan played with the Washington Wizards, pose a problem of canon.
The first three movies are a near-per...
In the opening moments of Michael Sarnoski’s “The Death of Robin Hood,” Hugh Jackman’s Robin shelters on a cold and desolate peatland. A young attacker (Jade Croot) emerg...
LOS ANGELES — James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi," “...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is the state’s largest farm organization with a volunteer membership of more than 30,000 farm and rural families, representing farms of every siz...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
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...