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Corey’s Cruise returns to celebrate the life of a local hero
PROSPECT — Corey’s Cruise returned for its second year, bigger than ever. This year, it welcomed 48 different vendors, at least 400 bikes were anticipated to ri...
Corey’s Cruise holds Corey Comperatore at its center
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...
Photos: Corey’s Cruise recognizes life of Comperatore
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...
Single-vehicle crash prompts emergency response on Beacon Road
Penn Township police and volunteer fire department and Middlesex Township police and volunteer fire department responded to a vehicle crashed into a tree after ...
Exploring the prairie still draws visitors to Jennings Environmental Education Center
BRADY TWP — Some hikers have been visiting Jennings Environmental Education Center for 30 years and have still never seen a resident massasauga rattlesnake in p...
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
Photos: Corey’s Cruise...
Single-vehicle crash prompts emergency response on Beacon Road
Single-vehicle crash p...
Exploring the prairie still draws visitors to Jennings Environmental Education C...
Exploring the prairie ...
Top Headlines
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...
July 24, 2026 Business
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...
July 24, 2026 Local News
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...
July 25, 2026 Local News
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...
July 25, 2026 Local News
Allegheny Health Network has named the new president of AHN West Penn Hospital. Doug Johnston will take over the position effective Aug. 1. He previously served as the ho...
July 24, 2026 Business
News
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...
July 25, 2026 Local News
An Ellwood City man is accused of failing to remodel a home in Harmony after accepting $75,000 for the job. Zelienople police charged Robert Paul Connors, 55, Thursday, J...
July 24, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General held a public hearing on Friday morning, July 24, at Swiftee’s Lakeview in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, to solicit comme...
July 24, 2026 Business
A Butler man is charged in two assaults within three days, one of which occurred in a parking lot on North Main Street. Edward Earl Clark, 33, was charged with misdemean...
July 24, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced rolling closures on Aug. 6 for work on the Route 422 Shearer Bridge project in Butler and Summit townships. The rolling closures will occur from 7 to 8...
July 24, 2026 Local News
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Community
Standing tall and verdant at the midsummer season, obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana)...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
The second session of the Cranberry Conversation is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, in th...
July 24, 2026
For the 11th year, rain or shine, “Touch A Truck … and All Things That Go,” will be in gea...
July 24, 2026
Circle of Swords keeps the games going
July 24, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
July 23, 2026
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Sports
Dan Brown made a cast close to the bank, something he’s quite adept at. Soon after the lur...
 
The landscape of Pennsylvania high school girls volleyball will look much different this f...
July 24, 2026
Kaeleigh Tuell, a rising junior wrestler at Seneca Valley, went 5-2 in seven matches at th...
July 23, 2026
Bill Mylan has seen the wrestling mat from a few different vantage points. The Butler ...
July 23, 2026
Kaeleigh Tuell, an rising junior wrestler at Seneca Valley, went 5-2 in seven matches at t...
July 23, 2026
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Editorial
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 ...
July 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Congrats to everyone involved in making “Butler Magic,” the silent film celebrating the spirit of Butler shown during the Steeples & Stacks Heritage W...
July 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
In all the media and discussions about the 2020 election, everybody forgets the abhorrent treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic that was grossly mismanag...
July 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
News from the most recent Butler County Prison Board meeting should be raising alarms. At the meeting, it was revealed numerous inmates were admitted ...
July 24, 2026 Our Opinion
July 24, 2026 Cartoons
Business
Local steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs has promoted one of its senior leaders. Celso Goncalves, who has served as the company’s executive vice presiden...
July 24, 2026 Business
Local farmers and agriculture-adjacent employees will have a chance to hear from expert voices on how to best care for their land, crops and businesse...
July 24, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barr...
July 23, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Stocks of computer chip companies and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom turned back lower Wednesday. Oil prices, meanwhile,...
July 22, 2026 Business
Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny General, Jefferson, Forbes and Wexford hospitals have earned the highest possible rating from the Society of Thor...
July 22, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
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...
July 23, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
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...
July 24, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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...
July 24, 2026 Reviews
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...
July 24, 2026 Reviews
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...
July 23, 2026 Community
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...
July 23, 2026 People
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Special Sections
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...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
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. ...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
July 07, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 04, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
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,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
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...
November 23, 2022 Local News
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...
July 16, 2022 Local News
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...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
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 ...
August 22, 2023 National News
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...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
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...
February 17, 2023 Business

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