Mother of boy dies in Sunday collision
Two women, including a mother of a boy, died following a head-on crash Sunday, July 26, along Route 8 in Butler Township...
Two people were killed when the car they were in collided with a tree along Beacon Road in Penn Township on Saturday evening, July 25, township police have conf...
PROSPECT — Corey’s Cruise returned for its second year, bigger than last year’s inaugural event.
This year, it welcomed 48 vendors, at least 400 bikes were anti...
When Helen Comperatore and her board were planning this year’s Corey’s Cruise, they had one question in mind: “what would Corey do?”
Every detail, down to the c...
View the photos from Corey’s Cruise, held on Saturday, July 25 at the fairgrounds.
The second annual festival honors Corey Comperatore, two years after the Buf...
2 women who died following Butler Township crash identified
2 women who died follo...
2 killed after Beacon Road crash identified
2 killed after Beacon ...
Corey’s Cruise returns to celebrate the life of a local hero
Corey’s Cruise returns...
Corey’s Cruise holds Corey Comperatore at its center
Corey’s Cruise holds C...
Photos: Corey’s Cruise recognizes life of Comperatore
After eight months of construction and more than a year of planning, Butler-based Armco Credit Union officially reopened its Butler branch and headquarters on Monday, Jul...
BRADY TWP — Some hikers have been visiting Jennings Environmental Education Center for 30 years and have still never seen a resident massasauga rattlesnake in person.
But...
Almost as long as there’s been a Butler County, there’s been a summer festival on the campus of Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Jefferson Township. The tradition continu...
After a year gap, Middlesex Community Day returned to the township Saturday, July 25, bringing more than 30 local food trucks, vendors and artisans to the community park....
Butler City Council is moving forward with more upgrades to the city building with the purchase of some new furniture.
Council voted unanimously at a meeting Thursday eve...
Emergency personnel responded to a fatal crash on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township Sunday evening.
At about 6:50 p.m., Butler County Emergency Services dispatch called...
Penn Township police and volunteer fire department and Middlesex Township police and volunteer fire department responded to a vehicle crashed into a tree after 7 p.m. Sat...
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...
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...
Butler County is taking a new approach toward the issue of student truancy through the creation of a truancy court program, established by the county’...
Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing.
The H...
Our community deserves a representative who actually shows up, listens and answers to the voters. For too long, we have been left without real access ...
Congrats to everyone involved in making “Butler Magic,” the silent film celebrating the spirit of Butler shown during the Steeples & Stacks Heritage W...
Pennsylvania American Water has begun conducting door-to-door canvassing of its customers in Butler County to determine what material their water serv...
MEXICO CITY — The United States announced Friday it will begin reopening the border to Mexican cattle imports on Aug. 24, more than a year after it i...
The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military to help replace the tens of thousands of immig...
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General held a public hearing on Friday morning, July 24, at Swiftee’s Lakeview in Greensburg, Westmoreland Coun...
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 ...
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...
“The Odyssey” continued to exert a mighty hold on moviegoers in its second weekend in North American theaters, with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estim...
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 — 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...
