Scott Timko appears to have won the Republican nod for the 12th district seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following a tight race against Ethan ...
Three new endowments totaling $4.5 million were announced Tuesday, May 19, to support Butler Area School District students, programs and the community.
Mei and...
Tourism is on the move.
Experience Butler County, the county’s tourism promotion agency, plans to move its administrative offices from its Zelienople location t...
WEXFORD — Facing adversity during the course of a game does not faze North Catholic’s softball team.
The Trojanettes are relishing in simply being on the field....
Unofficial results: Timko wins Republican nod in highly contested race for 12th ...
Unofficial results: Ti...
Butler Area School District announces new endowments totaling $4.5 million
Butler Area School Dis...
Experience Butler County moving to Butler City
Experience Butler Coun...
Slippery Rock Area proposes tax hike
Slippery Rock Area pro...
North Catholic defies all odds to make first WPIAL softball semifinal in dramati...
SAXONBURG — As the Hotel Saxonburg remains unsold following a recent Sheriff sale, the state of the nearly two-century-old property is near the top of the mind of some bo...
Butler Transit Authority is eyeing three new buses to replace half of its aging local fleet.
The authority’s board of directors voted 4-0 Tuesday evening, May 19, to orde...
SLIPPERY ROCK ― Slippery Rock Borough Council approved a purchase of $57,702.50 to Keystone Ridge for refreshed benching and trash cans at a meeting Tuesday, May 19, at t...
BUTLER TWP — There are 291 manufacturing establishments in Butler County offering many career opportunities, according to state data. Students from school districts aroun...
Despite concern from a Lancaster Township supervisor and residents at a Monday, May 17, meeting, a new 124-unit townhouse development was approved to be located along Per...
Republican voters in and around Cranberry Township carried the most weighty primary election decision in the county on Tuesday, May 19, as they decide who will run agains...
MARS — Borough council gave an update about new welcome signs coming to the borough at its agenda meeting on Monday.
Secretary Christine Clutter said the Butler County A...
The Butler County Historical Society has a new commemorative flag to display.
The historical society accepted a special Betsy Ross America250 U.S. flag made by Annin Fla...
All PennDOT Drivers License and Photo Centers, including its full-service center in Harrisburg, will be closed Saturday, May 23 through May 25, for Memorial Day.
Customer...
Wednesday’s unveiling of a historic trail marker commemorating Gen. Marquis de Lafayette’s contributions in the American Revolution and his 1825 visit to Butler County ha...
At more than 3 million square miles, the continental U.S. is a lot of ground to cover. Add Hawaii and Alaska — which, at over 600,000 square miles, is...
Think you own that new car you just bought? Not all of it.
As many Americans are learning, automakers own their data, and they’re trying to dictate wh...
Tuesday, May 19, is the primary election in Pennsylvania, and although Butler County only has a few locally contested races, all Butler residents who ...
NEW YORK — A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a developmen...
Jell-O — long known for its bright rainbow of artificially colored gelatins — is getting a line of products made without synthetic colors or artificia...
President Donald Trump on Monday announced more than 600 generic medications will be added to the government’s discounted-drug website TrumpRx, dramat...
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — At 6 a.m., in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires , workers unload sides of beef from a truck outside a butcher shop...
An Ever-Present Help, a Houghton University chamber choir, will perform in Evans City on Monday, May 18.
The chamber choir’s performance begins at 7 p.m. at St. John's Un...
A decade after Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian’s very public feud, the pop superstar has reportedly “moved on” and would be “cordial” during a run-in with the reality sta...
John Krasinski returning as Jack Ryan in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War” for Prime Video and “Stranger Things” masterminds the Duffer Brothers producing a Netflix show in which a ...
After two weeks trailing “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with $26.1 million in t...
As young men flinched and gasped around me at the Los Angeles premiere of “Obsession,” I almost had to laugh. A slight head tilt, creepy smile or strange movement from st...
It was only a matter of time before “that octopus book” became “that octopus movie” (or, at least, “that other octopus movie”). Shelby Van Pelt’s “Remarkably Bright Creat...
Not every hole needs to be a challenge. Some can remind you of why you love — or maybe just tolerate, if it’s that kind of day — the game.
And par-3s on a golf course are...
Not all par-5s are unbeatable monsters. Some can give a golfer an opportunity to shake off a bad bogey the hole before or build momentum with an layup of a birdie opportu...
It’s been a series of Western Pennsylvania false springs of late, but golf weather is increasing in regularity in the Butler area.
And that means one thing: time to get o...
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 ...
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...
