A tornado touched down in the Portersville area at about 7:53 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, as confirmed by the National Weather Service’s Pittsburgh office.
The torna...
PENN TWP — A woman has died after a tree fell on her Tuesday evening, July 21.
Kimberly Altmire, 64, was outside weeding when a large tree branch fell on her, S...
A Freeport man ran over another man with a U-Haul box truck Monday evening, July 20, in Saxonburg, according to police.
Dennis Ellwood Wolff, 74, then drove dow...
Butler County residents were able to spot a blue sky on Sunday, July 19, for the first time in nearly a week, following several days of poor air quality as a re...
Buffalo Township police officers will debut 11 body cameras, six built-in car cameras and seven upgraded tasers in the beginning of August, according to the pol...
Tornado touches down in Butler County
Tornado touches down i...
Woman killed by falling tree in Penn Township
Woman killed by fallin...
Freeport man accused of running over man with U-Haul truck
Freeport man accused o...
Air quality improves heading into new work week
Air quality improves h...
Buffalo Township police to deploy body cameras in August
Two Butler men were charged in a fight involving five people and a knife in the men’s bathroom at Sheetz on Center Avenue, according to charges filed Monday, July 20.
But...
MARS — At Monday’s council meeting, the borough announced a new Mars sign will debut at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at the corner of Grand Avenue and Irvine Street, near S...
MARS — Borough Council voted 4-1 in favor of three amendments to the borough’s merger with Adams Township during its meeting Monday, July 20.
Council Member William Lambe...
LANCASTER TWP — The township’s board of supervisors took a major step to address the issue of data center development during its monthly meeting on Monday, July 20, when ...
A Butler man accused of grabbing two children and threatening a parent with a knife had a felony and three misdemeanor charges withdrawn but still pleaded guilty to two s...
A Marion Township man is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, with police saying he fired a pistol while a 6-year-old was present in the home.
Christopher T. ...
A Connoquenessing man is charged with leaving the scene of a crash that caused a gas leak on Whitestown Road.
Joshua Jennings Space, 33, was charged Tuesday, July 21, wit...
An investment from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will benefit Butler County school districts.
PennDOT announced a $1.1 million grant that will go toward h...
A Brackenridge man is accused of strangling a woman in her sleep in Winfield Township.
Tyler Michael Roberts, 29, was charged Monday, July 20, by state police with felon...
A pedestrian was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday evening, July 20, in Saxonburg, according to Butler County Emergency Communications...
The median house price in Nantucket, Mass., is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in one of the hot...
Attendees of the annual Horse Trading Days in Zelienople didn’t see many, if any, horses over the course of the event. The event’s organizers called o...
Republicans have wanted to abolish the Department of Education since it was established in 1979. Under Secretary Linda McMahon, they’ve come closer th...
South College Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township is launching a new program that will allow registered nurses with a bachelor’s in nursing degree a new ...
Armco Credit Union is almost ready to move back into its Butler headquarters.
Its headquarters and Butler branch at 101 Hollywood Drive in Pullman Squ...
NEW YORK — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the ge...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his White House have enthusiastically promoted the Freedom Fuel Network, a chain of star-spangled convenience ...
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhe...
Below is the schedule for the upcoming Horse Trading Days in Zelienople:
Thursday, July 16
Around Town
Craft and food vendors, 2 to 8 p.m. at Four Corners Park ...
Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira each brought a bit of one of their hits to the World Cup's first halftime show in a whirlwind performance Sunday that also squ...
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challe...
NEW YORK — Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even...
LONDON — Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died. She was 81.
The Irish character actor di...
Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space tr...
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...
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 a number...
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.
Butler Area Pu...
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.
Butler Transit Aut...
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...
