As the calendar reached Oct. 13, no last-minute intervention by the General Assembly materialized to prevent the thousands of skill game machines deployed acros...
The scheduled debate between Democratic state Rep. Brandon Dukes, D-12th, and Republican challenger Scott Timko has been canceled.
The debate was to be held Th...
George Williams knew all about winning before ever stepping foot on Seneca Valley’s campus.
He’s been teaching generations of boys soccer players that secret ev...
JEFFERSON TWP — Making it back-to-back trips to the postseason was certainly not a lock for Knoch boys soccer.
The Knights graduated 11 seniors and nine starter...
PENN TOWNSHIP — After four months of work by the land use administrator, the township’s board of supervisors held a public hearing on and then voted to adopt a...
Enforcement deadline for skill games passes with no action from state legislator...
Enforcement deadline f...
Dukes-Timko debate canceled
Dukes-Timko debate can...
Seneca Valley boys soccer coach George Williams hits another milestone in career...
Seneca Valley boys soc...
Knoch boys soccer reaches the WPIAL playoffs for the second straight season afte...
Knoch boys soccer reac...
Penn Township adopts ordinance restricting data center development
State Rep. Marci Mustello, R-11th, is running for her fourth full term in office. She faces a challenge from Democratic write-in candidate Kathy Smith of Butler.
“Experie...
PENN TOWNSHIP — After four months of work by the land use administrator, the township’s board of supervisors held a public hearing on and then voted to adopt a new ordin...
SUMMIT TWP — Despite receiving approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection for a sewer plan for Summit Township, the sewer authority decided to contact...
First of seven stops in series
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District’s fifth grade class was treated to a performance by the Butler Symphony Orchestra as part of a wav...
A jury deliberated for about an hour Tuesday before finding a Cabot man guilty of inappropriately touching a 15-year-old girl in 2023.
Michael G. Saunders, 50, of Cabot, ...
At Slippery Rock University, local high school students were given the opportunity to interact with cultures from a world away while exploring ways to learn more about th...
WVU Medicine Butler Memorial Hospital announced the addition of Dr. Tsimafei Marchuk to its medical staff in a Monday, Oct. 12 news release.
Marchuk will provide general...
Mars Area School District officials and law enforcement took action after a bomb threat written on a bathroom wall was discovered at the high school Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Ac...
ADAMS TWP — The board of supervisors voted during its meeting on Monday night, Oct. 12, to amend the township’s current ordinance on garbage collection to limit hours of ...
With the price of Halloween costumes rising, the Butler County Young Professionals are back for another year to offer free costumes to children across the county.
The 11t...
The United States has opened another chapter in its decades-long campaign of economic pressure against Iran. The Treasury Department launched Operatio...
Jennings Environmental Education Center administrators said there are already people offering to help out with Old Stone House, which officially becam...
Is it acceptable to bring an iced coffee to a job interview?
This seemingly mundane question has somehow consumed various corners of the internet, tak...
When I was sworn in for my latest term in 2025, my team and I immediately hit the ground running. There was no time to waste: the 2017 tax cuts that s...
PARIS — Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money ...
NEW YORK — The first big batch of summertime profit reports from U.S. companies is making waves on Wall Street after topping analysts' expectations, b...
Grocery store chain Kroger said it will lay off 3,000 corporate employees over the next three years as it ramps up its use of artificial intelligence ...
NEW YORK — Nelson Vandermeer voted Republican for decades but balked at supporting President Donald Trump, fearing that the Republican's plan for tari...
Zelienople Fall Festival will take over the borough Friday through Saturday, Oct. 9-11, offering activity throughout each day.
The event will take place from 4 to 9:30 p....
NEW YORK — Actor Selma Blair has been issued a summons accusing her of assaults that occurred aboard a plane after she was taken into custody following a flight from Los ...
In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord...
It is unfortunate for “The Social Reckoning” that “The Social Network” exists.
The latter is a modern masterpiece. The former was kind of always doomed to exist in its s...
I’ve been meaning to tell you about the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin for a while now, but with everything else going on this year I just haven’t had the chanc...
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for his smooth ‘80s hits “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” and “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70.
A stat...
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...
