A fire Monday evening in Forward Township claimed the lives of two individuals, according to a news release from Pennsylvania State Police.
According to the rel...
When the Butler Memorial Day parade kicked off Monday morning at 10:40 a.m., the sky was cloudy and gray. But the throng of attendees was energetic.
Onlookers h...
SAXONBURG — Nine descendants of the Roebling family toured locations Sunday, May 24, across Saxonburg, the borough their ancestors once called home.
Anne and A...
Family, friends and even former business competitors turned out Saturday, May 23, to Butler Autoworks for a car show benefiting an Oakland Township/Oneida Valle...
DUBOIS — Everything about Monday’s District 9 Class 2A baseball championship was flipped on its head.
The rowdy chanting from Moniteau’s dugout while their pitc...
2 reported dead following Forward Twp fire
2 reported dead follow...
Butler Memorial Day parade honors the fallen
Butler Memorial Day pa...
Descendants of Roebling family tour Saxonburg
Descendants of Roeblin...
Car show benefits firefighter Mike King after injury on the job
Car show benefits fire...
Moniteau baseball, led by ace Dawson Cook, beats Redbank Valley in District 9 ch...
Strikes announced as Trump describes peace negotiations as ‘proceeding nicely’
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in so...
HARRISVILLE — On Monday at 1 p.m., a bustling crowd gathered to watch the Memorial Day parade, lining up on the borough’s Main Street sidewalks.
The parade was hosted by...
Pennsylvania American Water began monthly water quality sampling by boat this week on the Lake Oneida and Thorn Run reservoirs. The water utility said this is to help ens...
CENTER TWP — Not long ago, at a drive-in movie theater not so far away, 9-year-old Jonathan Beers had the opportunity to meet his favorite heroes — or villains — before e...
A Wexford man is facing several charges after police said he hid a camera in a woman’s home.
Richard Joseph Hilderbrand, 32, was charged with felony interception of commu...
The parade through Prospect on Saturday had dual purposes — to recognize Memorial Day weekend and to celebrate the nation’s 250 anniversary.
The event, complete with a p...
CHICORA — With America’s 250th birthday coming up, students and teachers at Karns City Area Elementary School got a head start on the celebrations.
On Friday, May 22, the...
BUTLER TWP — For students at Northwest Elementary School, Memorial Day weekend is about more than a long weekend, community gatherings and enjoying the sun.
On Friday, M...
Lenore Skenazy has spent the past 15 years shining a light on examples across the country of overzealous bureaucrats and law enforcement officials att...
Good company, good food and a long weekend traditionally mark the unofficial start of summer in the United States. As we collectively wait for the bur...
My name is Fran Morrison, and I have been a Harrisville resident for 50 years.
I have to say in all these years, I’ve never been so ashamed of the co...
America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess. More and more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the power of the...
In Granbury, Texas, city council meetings begin with a prayer.
But at a session back in January, one local invoked the Almighty in a way that would ha...
Walmart Inc. warned rising fuel costs are squeezing the company’s bottom line and could lead to higher prices for shoppers.
The world’s largest retail...
JEFFERSON TWP — Just over two years ago, Farmhouse Fancies was a humble home-based business run out of Shaun and Rachel Austin’s kitchen.
Since then,...
Armco Credit Union has awarded $20,000 worth of scholarships to 20 area high school seniors, Most recipients are from Butler County.
The students were...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse...
There will be a bingo fundraiser event to support Felicia Caldwell, who recently suffered the death of her husband, Donnie.
Doors open for the event at noon Saturday, May...
Paul McCartney reflecting on the “Days We Left Behind” with his 18th studio album and John Travolta writing, directing and narrating an ode to the glamorous days of 1960s...
After nearly seven years away from the big screen, a new Star Wars movie drew healthy but not record-breaking crowds to global theaters this weekend. According to studio ...
Boots Riley holds nothing back in his audacious, surrealist social satire “I Love Boosters.” The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social cons...
It’s been nearly seven years since there was a new “Star Wars” movie released in theaters and there are lots of ways to do it. “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a d...
Before streaming changed everything, the summer TV season used to be awash in reruns.
To some extent, that’s still true, with TV executives rerunning through old ideas — ...
A portion of Main Street in Saxonburg between Pittsburgh and Rebecca streets will close to vehicle traffic on the third Thursday of the month from May through September f...
If a customer at the Butler City Farmers’ Market is looking for a specific item, Mayor Bob Dandoy said the following Saturday, vendors will often work to ensure they have...
Not every hole needs to be a challenge. Some can remind you of why you love — or maybe just tolerate, if it’s that kind of day — the game.
And par-3s on a golf course are...
Not all par-5s are unbeatable monsters. Some can give a golfer an opportunity to shake off a bad bogey the hole before or build momentum with an layup of a birdie opportu...
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...
