After facing medical mysteries with her son, a Slippery Rock mother is hoping to connect with the family, friends or doctors of the few others who share his rar...
HOMESTEAD, Allegheny County — Retired emergency medical services director Vern Smith, a face familiar to thousands of Butler County residents, was one of six pe...
Butler Memorial Hospital has received a $250,000 grant from Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry to support its planned preapprenticeship program.
Th...
CRANBERRY TWP — At Thursday’s township meeting, the board of supervisors voted unanimously to pass the conditional use application for the planned 7 Brew locati...
JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley school board is expected to vote Monday, May 11, to update graduation requirements, adding a new personal finance course mandate...
How a Slippery Rock child is the 7th in world with genetic neurodevelopmental di...
How a Slippery Rock ch...
Vern Smith, 5 others inducted as Legends of EMS
Vern Smith, 5 others i...
Butler Memorial Hospital receives $250,000 grant for preapprenticeship program
Butler Memorial Hospit...
7 Brew conditional use application approved by Cranberry Twp. supervisors
7 Brew conditional use...
Seneca Valley could add personal finance to graduation requirements, proposes cu...
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District’s board released a statement on the dismissal of charges against a teacher at its Wednesday, May 6, meeting, saying members felt the...
With the current deadline drawing closer and work still ongoing to draft their newest Act 537 public sewage plan, Connoquenessing Township officials are requesting two mo...
A Pennsylvania Office of Open Records determination for Butler County to provide the name of a 2-month-old boy who died Nov. 8 in Butler Township to a newspaper has been ...
BUTLER TWP — All nonteaching staff with Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School will see a small pay increase starting next year.
The school’s joint operating comm...
A Butler man is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a 15-month-old child in the vehicle in Concord Township.
Coltin Lee Lary, 20, was charged Tuesday...
CRANBERRY TWP — When Jocelyn Christensen and her family moved to the township 10 years ago, she said she was captivated by the community’s openness to working with church...
Mars Area Middle School’s seventh- and eighth-graders went to battle Thursday morning for a good cause, and they did so via water balloon.
The school’s student council sp...
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-8th, is hosting two events in Butler County for veterans and members of the public to learn about issues and ask questions.
A veterans event...
JACKSON TWP — School bus drivers are typically the first and last school district personnel that students interact with each day.
One driver was recognized recently by t...
UPDATE: The missing teenager has been located. “Chandler has been located, safe, and not injured,” said in an update to the earlier Facebook post.
Police in Armstrong Cou...
As the weather finally starts to warm up, there will be more and more outdoor events available throughout the Butler area.
There will likely be sever...
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, b...
Whirlpool appeared to be in a prime position to thrive, producing about 80% of its major appliances at American factories at a time when President Don...
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose again this week, reflecting ongoing bond market volatility as surging oil prices due to the war with Ira...
Five Allegheny Health Network hospitals have earned the highest possible “A” grades in The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2026 Hospital Safety Grades for exc...
A Pittsburgh-area floral design studio has made its way north to Butler County.
Blue Daisy Floral Designs officially opened its Zelienople location, 1...
First United Methodist Church, 1802 N. Main Street Extension in Center Township, will hold its annual rummage sale May 15 and 16.
The sale will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 ...
NEW YORK — No money was exchanged in the settlement between Blake Lively and her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni when they laid down their arms Mond...
NEW YORK — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating's most famous race an...
NEW YORK — Doris Fisher, who co-founded the iconic clothing chain The Gap Inc. in 1969 with her late husband Don, has died. She was 94.
Fisher died on Saturday surrounded...
VENTURA, Calif. — Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused h...
“The Drama,” a rom-com that goes bad starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and the synth-pop group MUNA releasing their fourth studio album, “Dancing on the Wall,” are s...
Stephen Harding, an instructor at the Butler Art Center and Gallery, has plenty of ideas for unique, affordable crafts for all ages. From bookmarks to painted terracotta ...
Keller Williams Realty is asking everyone, parent or not, to “run like a mother” this Mother’s Day, May 10, for their annual 5K and one-mile walk at Moraine State Park.
B...
An 18-hole round of golf works up an appetite.
Some of Butler County’s golf courses are known for more than just the quality of their greens, too, and offer different foo...
With high school graduations on the horizon, for many students, it’s time for them and their families to look ahead to the next level of their education journey.
From st...
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...
