Actors and crew members were in Butler on Tuesday, Jan. 13, for the second time, putting in 12-to-14-hour days shooting a future Apple TV show about a homicide ...
By all accounts, Doug Hays, 79, of Butler, is lucky to be alive.
During his nine-month stint in Vietnam, he was wounded multiple times, enough to receive three...
After four years and two WPIAL semifinal appearances, Mars head football coach Eric Kasperowicz is returning home.
Kasperowicz is expected to be named the North...
In the wake of his 10th season as Slippery Rock High’s head football coach, Larry Wendereusz said he was looking forward to the 2026 season.
Two months later, h...
Apple TV show continues shooting in Butler
Apple TV show continue...
Butler Vietnam vet honored before Steelers game
Butler Vietnam vet hon...
DUI repeat offenders will face harsher punishments from new law
DUI repeat offenders w...
Coach Eric Kasperowicz leaving Mars football to take over North Hills after four...
Coach Eric Kasperowicz...
Larry Wendereusz resigns as Slippery Rock football coach after 10 seasons, two D...
The Mars Area Public Library is recruiting some unconventional help to give children an opportunity to practice reading.
The library’s Paws to read with Wally program is ...
As the new leader of the Butler County Republican Committee of Pennsylvania, Stacey Palmer wants to introduce a new motto for the local party: “Every year, twice a year.”...
Butler Transit Authority’s board of directors announced a set of changes to the authority’s bus routes and schedule set to go in effect on Feb. 9.
Authority executive dir...
ADAMS TWP — A wave of coaches, players and parents on Tuesday night flooded the Mars Area School District administration building to advocate for adding a new Pennsylvani...
Butler Area School District will make more investments into agricultural education thanks to a youth agriculture grant from the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agri...
CLINTON TWP — A quick response by firefighters helped keep most of the damage from a Tuesday morning, Jan. 13, chimney fire confined to the roof of a family home.
Family ...
Area fire departments are reportedly responding to a chimney fire in the 200 block of Spring Valley Road in Clinton Township.
The fire was reported around 10:30 a.m.
Acco...
ADAMS TWP - A Sarver man is accused of fleeing the scene of a crash on Route 228 then attempting to purchase insurance for the vehicle involved in the incident.
Austin T....
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Five girls in Butler County are looking to take their weaving skills to show this Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Fleece to Shawl ...
It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences.
This is a seriou...
Butler Mayor Bob Dandoy is a man with a plan.
The recently reelected mayor recently shared his proposal for using $15 million the city received from t...
It’s a new year and no sooner than resolutions are broken, tax season arrives.
It will officially begin Jan. 26 when the Internal Revenue Service begi...
The discount grocery chain Aldi is expanding rapidly and plans to open more than 180 U.S. stores this year as more Americans skip nights out at restau...
WASHINGTON — Inflation cooled a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell, a sign that stubbornly elevated cost pressures are slowly easing....
NEW YORK — Hospital officials and union leaders traded barbs Tuesday, but failed to return to the bargaining table on the second day of New York City’...
LONDON — The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers sho...
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temp...
The Mars Hockey Club will host its annual ICE ALS charity game Feb. 2, in a game pitting the team against West Allegheny High School at Baierl Toyota Ice Complex, 103 Mar...
Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip “Dilbert” captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern offi...
Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant Friday for director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sex abuse charge.
An investigator wit...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes in the comedy category, while Chloé Zhao's Shak...
NEW YORK — Paramount Skydance is taking another step in its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying Monday that it will name its own slate of directors bef...
LOS ANGELES — “Avatar: Fire and Ash” kept on smoldering at the box office, taking the top spot for a fourth straight week on a relatively quiet weekend as the January dol...
This holiday season, some shoppers are looking beyond traditional wrapped gifts — the kind that sometimes end up forgotten in the back of the closet — and choosing instea...
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday.
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Catholi...
1. 1971
2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar
3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol”
4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton
5. Jimmy Buffett
6. A Hula-Hoop
7. Paul Giamatti
8. New York C...
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town.
One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
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...
