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Fire destroys Butler’s former Bantam Jeep building
More than 50 firefighters from 11 fire stations worked for hours early Sunday, Nov. 2, to battle a three-alarm blaze that destroyed the former Bantam Jeep build...
Two dead in Saturday crash in Buffalo Township
Two people are dead after a crash Saturday afternoon, Nov. 1, on South Pike Road in Buffalo Township, according to the county coroner. Butler County Coroner Wil...
Starting Thanksgiving with a trot
Annual YMCA event kicks off November holiday season
PIAA soccer, volleyball brackets: Matchups, sites, times announced for Butler County teams
Freeport and Karns City girls soccer will host first-round matchups, and Seneca Valley’s soccer teams have a doubleheader in Erie. That’s how the PIAA socce...
Legislation to legalize marijuana stalled in Pa., but efforts ongoing
Butler County state officials speak out on issue
Fire destroys Butler’s former Bantam Jeep building
Fire destroys Butler’s...
Two dead in Saturday crash in Buffalo Township
Two dead in Saturday c...
Starting Thanksgiving with a trot
Starting Thanksgiving ...
PIAA soccer, volleyball brackets: Matchups, sites, times announced for Butler Co...
PIAA soccer, volleybal...
Legislation to legalize marijuana stalled in Pa., but efforts ongoing
Legislation to legaliz...
Top Headlines
Read about Butler County’s contested races in the November 2025 election below. County races School boards City of Butler Boroughs Townships Misc ...
September 30, 2025 Local News
SAXONBURG — Children and adults learned how to keep their hearts healthy and heard about equipment used to provide emergency life saving care for the heart on Saturday, N...
November 01, 2025 Local News
Seneca Valley’s school board acknowledged receipt of more than 220 letters between its two meetings in October, with many of those criticizing the $165 million plan to tr...
October 31, 2025 Local News
PROSPECT — From Ghostface from “Scream” to Rumi from “KPop Demon Hunters,” characters new and old came to life to haunt Prospect’s streets on Friday evening, Oct. 31. In ...
October 31, 2025
Felony charges against a man accused of stalking Slippery Rock Borough Mayor Jondavid Longo have been reduced, but misdemeanor charges still remain. Todd James Hogue, 36,...
November 01, 2025 Local News
News
An Evans City woman was charged after police said they found psilocybin mushrooms and mushroom-growing supplies while a 1-year-old boy was in the residence upon a welfare...
November 01, 2025 Local News
A Butler man was sentenced to 36 months probation for stealing two catalytic converters from a body shop in Oakland Township in 2023. Adam M. Spinner, 36, had previously ...
November 01, 2025 Local News
Some streets in Butler will have restricted parking or will close for Butler YMCA’s Turkey Trot on Saturday morning, Nov. 1. West Penn Street from North Washington Street...
November 01, 2025 Local News
Two nursing schools in Butler County are working to fill a critical gap in health care staffing by training hundreds of new nurses each year and partnering directly with ...
November 01, 2025 Local News
While most people carve pumpkins for Halloween, Mars Area Elementary School students got to launch them too. As part of their Halloween festivities Friday, Oct. 31, Mars ...
October 31, 2025 Local News
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Community
The Cranberry Sunrise Rotary Club recently honored students from Rowan Elementary School a...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Gospel Life Church will host a free grief seminar to help people handle the holiday season...
November 01, 2025
Even when not hosting events on or around Butler’s Main Street, Butler Downtown aims to br...
November 01, 2025
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland is partnering with the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aqu...
October 30, 2025
Soroptimist International of Butler County is accepting applications for its 2026 Live You...
October 29, 2025
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Sports
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Larson denied Denny Hamlin his first career championship when a lat...
 
A popular area lake benefited from cleanup efforts conducted by volunteers last month, one...
November 02, 2025
SLIPPERY ROCK — JayJay Jordan started it. Michael Henwood finished it. Slippery Rock Unive...
November 01, 2025
Everything seemed to come together this season for Brendan Eicher. The Butler junior set a...
November 01, 2025
PITTSBURGH — Burrell didn’t want to let Camryn Woods connect for the goal that would sink ...
November 01, 2025
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Editorial
November 01, 2025 Cartoons
As a third-generation Butler Memorial Hospital employee who has followed in the humble footsteps of my mother and grandmother, I’m honored to serve as...
November 01, 2025 Other Voices
Compromise is a word forgotten by both federal and state legislators. Citizens should contact them to encourage them to compromise. That is how gover...
November 01, 2025 Letters to the Editor
The planning committee for the Souper Bowl fundraiser wishes to thank the Butler community for its incredible support of our inaugural event on Oct. 1...
November 01, 2025 Letters to the Editor
President Donald Trump is working with Hamas and Israel, talking with Japan and China because he likes authoritarians. He spends his time out of the c...
November 01, 2025 Letters to the Editor
Business
A family-run produce and specialty foods business is taking steps to bring more local produce directly to the Butler community through plans for a new...
November 01, 2025 Business
Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has commenced an underwritten public offering of 75 million of its common shares, at a value $0.125 per share. ...
November 01, 2025 Business
Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities around the country were again causing delays at airports on Friday as the government sh...
October 31, 2025 Business
BANGKOK — U.S. President Donald Trump said he had an “amazing” meeting Thursday with China’s top leader Xi Jinping that produced very important decisi...
October 30, 2025 International News
NEW YORK — The United States is running out of pennies. President Donald Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is starting to...
October 30, 2025 Business
Weekend Entertainment
As part of Native American Heritage Month this November, the Fort Pitt Museum will host “Native Allegheny, Past and Present” on Saturday, Nov. 8. The special program is o...
November 01, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His movies have perhaps in...
November 01, 2025 Reviews
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox has been living with “Back to the Future” for a long time. “I’ll be on the street and some kid will go, ‘There’s Marty McFly!’” Fox says. “No, ...
November 01, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
The best news for stargazers in November is that Butler nights are much longer, and you can start your stargazing well before 7 p.m. For sure, it is cooler though, but on...
November 01, 2025 Starwatch
Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his creations are things...
November 01, 2025 Reviews
NEW YORK — Sherry Jenkins is a Halloween person by default. She lives in Blairstown, N.J., a rural town where much of the original “Friday the 13th” horror movie was film...
October 31, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
Summary: Learn how Jackson Township is working to keep its recreational options in tip-top shape amid population growth. Don't miss out on “Tracking our Progress” — a...
October 22, 2025 Special Sections
Becoming a third class county could net a convention center for Butler County
October 21, 2025 Progress
Winter weather is inevitable, but Butler County residents can travel prepared this winter. Rick Fennel Rustproofing office manager Leah Felmlee said drivers can take ste...
October 15, 2025 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
October 14, 2025 Special Sections
‘Stubborn’ administrator convinced to seek 2nd mammogram within 3 months after anomaly found
October 07, 2025 Local News
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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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