FORWARD TWP — While officials made it clear that no action or discussion about a proposed data center would take place at Thursday’s board of supervisors meetin...
The Butler Eagle’s photo team was four PIAA football games Friday night: Baldwin at Butler, Burrell at Knoch, Blackhawk at Mars and Sharon at Slippery Rock.
Fro...
Butler returns home looking to snap a losing streak, while Karns City, Moniteau and several other teams are looking for much-needed wins to get back on track or...
BUTLER TWP — Three snaps, three impact plays — and Butler ran away.
The game wasn’t over 38 seconds in. It just felt that way as Butler football turned a quick ...
Candidates for 8th state House District elections weigh in on key issues
Candidates for 8th sta...
Forward Township residents address data center zoning concerns, rowdiness at mee...
Forward Township resid...
Check out Week 7 PIAA football photos from Butler, Knoch, Mars and Seneca Valley...
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PA, WPIAL football Week 7 final scores | Butler, Karns City, Freeport cruise to ...
PA, WPIAL football Wee...
Butler football’s blowout of Baldwin ‘just what we needed’ in clash of former WP...
Federal officials have released texts and drone images from Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a camp...
A Kittanning Township man is charged with felony robbery after police said he brandished a firearm and took more than $3,000 from NexTier Bank in Manor Township before sp...
Mars high school celebrated homecoming with a parade Friday, Sept. 9, before the Fightin’ Planets took the field against the Blackhawk Cougars at 7 p.m. at Mars Athletic ...
CRANBERRY TWP — Acts of mass violence or public safety concerns make headlines frequently.
Butler County has seen its share of cases — from the recent arrest of a county...
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...
Ongoing upgrades to Harmony’s Spring Street and the potential need for a data center ordinance were discussed at the borough’s Tuesday, Oct. 6, meeting, according to Greg...
OAKLAND TWP — Oakland Township is looking to join the many municipalities in Butler County and across Pennsylvania with an ordinance addressing the growing public issue o...
Bundle Up Butler had a line around the Butler City Farmers’ Market when it began handing out coats and winter gear at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9, according to volunteers with...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Buffalo Twp
Sept. 14 — Shawn Robert Nelson, 46, was charged with misdemeanor simpl...
Years after the risks of social media for children first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile,...
There is a proposal before the Forward Township supervisors to build a massive data center in their district. The proposal is to build the center on f...
The Butler County Democratic Committee calls on state Rep. Aaron Bernstine to resign immediately following reports of a slur-filled public outburst.
H...
On July 12, my daughter was in a horrific automobile accident on Freeport Road, Marshall Township in Allegheny County. She was critically injured, ent...
There are many ways to view the Carrizalez family’s story.
Some will see it as a straightforward immigration case. Others will see it as a complicated...
A municipal meeting in Forward Township looked much different in October 2025 than it did in October 2026.
Last year, the rooms were quiet, near empt...
WASHINGTON — Bolstered by steady gains in the stock market, families headed by someone aged 75 or older are now America's wealthiest, while the younge...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Mosc...
The Goddard School, a network of private, franchised early childhood education and daycare centers, has named The Goddard School of Cranberry Township...
The board of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) has unanimously approved a request for a 5.5% increase in its 2027-28 state appr...
American furniture and mattress retail chain Bob’s Discount Furniture is preparing to open a new showroom in Cranberry Township.
The new store will op...
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....
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...
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...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday and charged with battery after a woman he was living with told police he hit her, authorit...
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...
When Claudia Marley began crocheting breast prostheses at age 70, she hoped to provide comfort to women recovering from mastectomies. The work also brought comfort to her...
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...
