The Seneca Valley area athletic community is reacting this week following the deaths of two youth coaches, Cody L. Huffman and T.V. Garrett Griffin, who were ki...
A Chicora woman is accused of stealing more than $20,000 from Butler Girls Softball Booster Club and spending at least part of it on online gambling, according ...
The high school wrestling postseason calendar just became a bit more crowded.
The WPIAL recently announced a district girls team championship tournament will be...
CENTER TWP — With call volume on the rise and first responders under more strain, township supervisors are considering hiring a full-time firefighter and parame...
Fifteen people, including three from Western Pennsylvania, have been charged in two cases for their alleged roles in a large-scale operation to traffic more tha...
Seneca Valley area athletic teams react to death of 2 youth coaches
Seneca Valley area ath...
Former Butler booster club treasurer accused of stealing $20K from club, spendin...
Former Butler booster ...
What coaches have to say about WPIAL adding girls wrestling team championship in...
What coaches have to s...
Center Twp. considers hiring paid firefighter/paramedic, EMS tax
Center Twp. considers ...
15 charged in 2-county ring that trafficked 100 pounds of meth in Pa., Ohio, U.S...
A man whose body was found in a trash can in a Butler apartment in June died from combined drug poisoning, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office.
Philip Schiede...
Penn State Extension’s Butler County office hosted a field day event for corn and soybean farmers at The Vettori’s farm supply store in Saxonburg on Thursday morning, Jul...
Matthew Marc Kennedy, 56, of Butler, is facing a second-degree felony strangulation charge and a second-degree misdemeanor assault charge after police said he choked a wo...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is hosting an open house to attract full-time maintenance and winter-only maintenance workers in Butler County. The open hou...
A Zelienople woman is accused of assaulting three employees, including spitting on one employee’s face, at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Michele Lynn Cannon, 61, was charged ...
Cranberry Township and the Cranberry Foundation will unveil new fitness courts in the UPMC Passavant Sportsplex at Graham Park. The facilities will give residents a space...
Franklin Road in Cranberry Township will undergo pavement patching next week.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced Thursday, July 30, pavement patching...
A two-vehicle crash reportedly took place near the entrance to a Sheetz at the intersection of Pittsburgh and Vogel Road in Butler Township just before 12:30 p.m. Thursda...
Multiple emergency crews responded to two sheds and car on fire Thursday morning, July 30, in Cranberry Township, according to Butler County Emergency Services.
Cranberr...
ADAMS TWP — With Pennsylvania moving toward a statewide “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in schools, places such as Mars Area School District are left in limbo.
Mars school ...
The City of Butler announced a zero-tolerance policy on electronic bicycles, otherwise known as e-bikes, effective July 23, due to violent crashes wit...
The United States — like all democracies — is centered on the basic premise that a representative system of governance reflects public preferences. Th...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers impacted by increased input costs and natural disasters that deadlines to apply...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, although three officials dissented in favor of higher rates as the ce...
At Mars Pizza, the most popular order is still the simplest one.
Cheese pizza remains the customer favorite, followed closely by pepperoni. But Mike P...
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer.
The drugmaker, which...
NEW YORK — Elon Musk’s social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one...
Butler County Community College is hosting the fourth annual Pioneer Pursuit on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the college’s main campus in Butler Township.
Pioneer Pursuit is a ...
PRAGUE — With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “The Odyssey” recording impressive sales around the globe, thousands of Europeans have used it as a new and unexpecte...
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during this year’s 78th Emmy Awards for his work in advancing research into Parkinson’s disease, wi...
Both Moraine State Park and McConnells Mill State Park have a full schedule of events lined up.
That’s a paddlin’
Moraine State Park is offering the following paddle even...
PARIS — Kavinsky, the French electro-pop composer whose haunting track “Nightcall” set the musical tone for the movie “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling, has died. He was 50. ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The “Purple Rain” musical will finally hit Broadway in 2027. But it won’t be the same version that made its world premiere last November at the State Th...
Residents of Mars are already quite familiar with the name “Purvis Brothers,” the 95-year-old family-owned fuel distribution company which also owns the small Planet Mart...
Although nearly every township or borough in Butler County has a municipal park or recreation complex of some kind, few — if any — can boast of one quite as expansive as ...
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...
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...
