SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University athletics are all about winning in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference — in more ways than one.
SRU had the ...
Initial steps taken over a year ago to consider making a recreation engagement center a reality for Cranberry Township will face a crucial test Thursday, Aug. 6...
MIDDLESEX TWP — More than 50 butterflies took to the skies above Glade Run Lake on Saturday, Aug. 1, as people honored their loved ones through a butterfly rele...
Despite early cancellation, Moraine regatta considered a success
Despite early cancella...
Blessing of the fleet as much a memorial as a wish for safety
Blessing of the fleet ...
What’s behind Slippery Rock University’s academic success in PSAC and Division I...
What’s behind Slippery...
Cranberry Township recreation center plans headed to supervisors
Cranberry Township rec...
Butterfly release part of celebration of Glade Run Lake
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — A new Connoquenessing Township even was held Saturday, Aug. 1, when the township and the Connoquenessing Volunteer Fire Company hosted the first Con...
The Butler County Historical Society announced a walking tour of Butler’s murals that will take place Sept. 19.
A Facebook post by the organization invited the public to ...
There will be a workshop demonstrating to teens and adults how to make greeting cards Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the South Butler Community Library.
The sessions take place at...
The National Weather Service of Pittsburgh declared a severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern Butler County, northwestern Allegheny County and southern Beaver County...
On Wednesday morning, 70-year-old Warren Wiebe set out on a 24-hour journey on his bike through the Great Allegheny Passage to raise funds for research of a rare disease ...
NAMI Butler County will have a Purse Bingo Luncheon on Saturday, Sept. 5
The event takes place from noon until 4 p.m. at the Hardwood Cafe, 646 Pittsburgh Road in Penn To...
CRANBERRY TWP — Cindy Austin was 26 years old and looking for a job when she found Nicklas Supply in the newspaper.
Thirty-four years later, she is one of the many owners...
Saturday, Aug. 1, is World Lung Cancer Day. In America, lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined.
According to the Am...
With local nonprofit Community Partnership Inc.’s status in flux, its parent organization has said it will support the organization in its next steps forward, though few ...
The Regatta has become a tradition at Moraine State Park and it has now survived for 27 years. It’s such a great way to commemorate what is a pretty g...
Almost every week, someone walks into one of our branches holding their phone, asking the same question: “Is this real?”
Maybe it's a text that looks...
A Pizza Hut in southwest Pennsylvania was recently highlighted for preserving its retro 1990s appearance, even as hundreds of other locations have clo...
Blue for the Reflecting Pool? How nice! President Donald Trump will do anything to get his name, logo or mark on anything. Who is he kidding? Blue is ...
NEW YORK — Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristic...
Canada’s second largest airline, WestJet, has agreed to a tentative agreement with flight attendants to end a strike that led to hundreds of flight ca...
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday approved the smallest model of Boeing's Max jetliners for commercial service nearly a decade after the a...
NEW YORK — Charlene Catalano was looking for a ball of green-and-white yarn to crochet this year's winter scarf.
Instead of going to a big-box retail ...
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump knows the world hangs on his every word. Now he wants you to pay for it.
The social media posts of the world's most ...
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...
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second-biggest North American openi...
NEW YORK — Vincent Pastore, a veteran actor who played mobsters and tough guys, and was best known for portraying Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on “The Sopranos,” has...
NEW YORK — Arlene Smith, one of the first “girl group” stars who as a teenager and a founder of the Chantels co-wrote and sang lead on the 1950s doo-wop classic “Maybe,” ...
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before...
As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it.
Hart plays a successful New ...
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...
