On July 29, Warren Wiebe, a 70-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada, will set out on a 24-hour journey through more than 165 miles of the Great Allegheny Passag...
Butler residents may have noticed an uptick in Drug Task Force raids since a new county chief detective filled the role in June.
Chief Detective Doug Brink sai...
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 ...
A recent outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection that causes watery, explosive diarrhea — has made headlines across the U.S.
The cyclosporiasis outbr...
70-year-old man will pedal for 24 hours through the Great Allegheny Passage for ...
70-year-old man will p...
September trial set in death of Butler teen Aiden Lutz
September trial set in...
New county chief detective executes 6 major operations in first 6 weeks
New county chief detec...
With PIAA girls volleyball expanding to 6 classes, Butler County teams prepare f...
With PIAA girls volley...
Local medical experts keeping an eye on the ongoing cyclospora outbreak
A nearly 100-year-old Butler County fuel distributor has officially entered the ice cream space.
Purvis Brothers of Mars opened ice cream shop Cosmic Treats & Sweets with...
A 19-year-old man suffered a shattered pelvis, collapsed lung and a fractured spine when he was run over by a U-Haul truck, according to a GoFundMe for him.
Dominic Nels...
Students, parents and faculty of Butler Catholic School will soon have a safer time getting in and out of the nearby area after the city purchased two flashing school zon...
After months of delay, the City of Butler is moving forward with its plan to modernize parking using digital kiosks and a connected smartphone app.
City council voted una...
Allegheny Health Network has named the new president of AHN West Penn Hospital.
Doug Johnston will take over the position effective Aug. 1. He previously served as the ho...
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General held a public hearing on Friday morning, July 24, at Swiftee’s Lakeview in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, to solicit comme...
A Butler man is charged in two assaults within three days, one of which occurred in a parking lot on North Main Street.
Edward Earl Clark, 33, was charged with misdemean...
PennDOT announced rolling closures on Aug. 6 for work on the Route 422 Shearer Bridge project in Butler and Summit townships.
The rolling closures will occur from 7 to 8...
A Jackson Township man accused of stalking a woman following a standoff had previously been accused of harassing the same woman by text message and at her place of employ...
The countdown to football season — and marching band season — is on.
Seneca Valley School District residents can support the Seneca Valley Marching Band at its annual “P...
News from the most recent Butler County Prison Board meeting should be raising alarms.
At the meeting, it was revealed numerous inmates were admitted ...
Every summer, communities across rural Pennsylvania come together to celebrate agriculture, tradition and the hardworking families who help feed our n...
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...
Local steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs has promoted one of its senior leaders.
Celso Goncalves, who has served as the company’s executive vice presiden...
Local farmers and agriculture-adjacent employees will have a chance to hear from expert voices on how to best care for their land, crops and businesse...
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...
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...
NEW YORK — Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to delay closing their $81 billion merger well into next year, a stunning move that arrives as a judge continu...
It’s right there in the trailer for “Motor City”: “revenge is louder than words,” splashed over a montage of fists clobbering, cars crashing, and disco dancing. The tagli...
It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendant of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The st...
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 — 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...
