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 dispa...
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...
Emergency personnel respond to fatal crash in Butler Township
Emergency personnel re...
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
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...
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....
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 Treats & Sweets with...
A 19-year-old man suffered a shattered pelvis, collapsed lung and a fractured spine when he was run over by a U-Haul truck, according to a GoFundMe for him.
Dominic Nels...
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...
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...
A recent outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection that causes watery, explosive diarrhea — has made headlines across the U.S.
The cyclosporiasis outbreak was li...
Butler residents may have noticed an uptick in Drug Task Force raids since a new county chief detective filled the role in June.
Chief Detective Doug Brink said since he...
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...
In all the media and discussions about the 2020 election, everybody forgets the abhorrent treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic that was grossly mismanag...
News from the most recent Butler County Prison Board meeting should be raising alarms.
At the meeting, it was revealed numerous inmates were admitted ...
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...
Local steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs has promoted one of its senior leaders.
Celso Goncalves, who has served as the company’s executive vice presiden...
Allegheny Health Network has named the new president of AHN West Penn Hospital.
Doug Johnston will take over the position effective Aug. 1. He previou...
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...
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 — Chadwick Boseman’s family is accusing the actor’s widow of mismanaging his estate and want her removed as its administrator.
The beloved Oscar nominee was just...
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...
