HARRISBURG — Democrat Dan Goughnour is the winner of a special election in western Pennsylvania, keeping majority control of the state House in his party's hand...
BUTLER TWP — Significantly more people are looking to the Summit Township center for their health care needs, according to the Jean B. Purvis Community Health C...
Multiple emergency crews responded to a fire at a business on Kittanning Street in Butler on Tuesday morning, March 25.
The fire, reported around 11 a.m., damag...
Slippery Rock University’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Program will feature an Auschwitz survivor and the daughter of another Holocaust survivor.
Art Gelbart ...
Democrat Dan Goughnour wins election in Pennsylvania, keeping party in control o...
Democrat Dan Goughnour...
Jean B. Purvis health center sees spike in service usage
Jean B. Purvis health ...
SRU requests state funding for renovation projects
SRU requests state fun...
Business along Butler’s Kittanning Street damaged in Tuesday fire
Two occupants were uninjured when a vehicle crashed into a guardrail Wednesday morning, March 26, in Middlesex Township.
The two occupants were evaluated at the scene nea...
A former chief radiologist at UPMC Children’s Hospital has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography images, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Pittsburgh and...
A new class at Cranberry Physical Therapy intends to benefit those dealing with the effects of Parkinson’s disease.
Drumfit for Parkinsons is described as a free class th...
Mars Area High School’s student council will host its annual “Spring ‘Eggs’travaganza” from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, at Mars Area High School.
The eve...
Buffalo and Clinton townships plan to form a joint tax collection district for the remainder of 2025.
The creation of the district was necessitated by the absence of Buf...
Unionville Grange will host a spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at 150 North Benbrook Road in Center Township.
The dinner is all-you-can-eat...
Mt. Chestnut Christian Preschool will have an open house for 2025-26 school year enrollment from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16.
The school, at 727 West Old Route 422...
St. Michael Ukrainian Church, at 610 Hansen Ave. in Lyndora, is selling pysanky, Ukrainian decorated Easter eggs, from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 27; Friday, April 11...
EVANS CITY — Scout’s honor. Seneca Valley Senior High School freshman Emma Pichieri is taking her family’s Scouting tradition to new heights.
Membership in the Boy Scouts...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Members of the Slippery Rock Area High School administration on Monday, March 24, presented handbook updates for the 2025-26 school year to the school...
U.S. health agency leadership and policymakers seem intent on undermining trust in mRNA, the technology that saved millions of lives during the COVID ...
I thought they might be angry.
Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada — Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly V...
Say this about President Donald Trump: Even when he has crazy ideas — and his tariff policy certainly seems crazy — he is often trying to address a le...
NEW YORK — Copper prices have hit record highs as an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners threatens to squeeze supplies of ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence continued its sharp 2025 decline as Americans’ views about their financial futures slumped to a 12-year low, dri...
NEW YORK — A brand that was notoriously connected to music piracy before reemerging as a subscription music service has been sold to Infinite Reality ...
Hannah Jones credits paid medical leave with helping her survive an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Her employer provided time off for chemotherapy ...
The spring Harrisville Community Band concert is set for 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Harrisville Volunteer Fire Hall, 313 E. Mercer St.
The band is in its 60th year ...
LOS ANGELES — Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man and Tom Hiddleston’s Loki are all back in the A...
PARIS — Gérard Depardieu won’t just be facing two women who accuse him of sexual assault when he walks into a Paris courtroom on Monday. France's most famous male actor w...
JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then de...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio e...
WASHINGTON — Conan O'Brien was expected to receive the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , where the backstage drama...
Pregnant women whose blood contains higher levels of essential vitamins and minerals — such as B12, copper and manganese – may face a lower risk for high blood pressure t...
With a few months to go before their due date, Tara Maziarz Myers and Ben Myers, of Penn Township, are in the throes of getting ready for their first child through the us...
As millions of baby boomers enter their retirement years, many are trading spacious family homes for more manageable living spaces. Yet today’s seniors aren’t simply down...
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...
