KARNS CITY — Residents in the Karns City Area School district voiced their discontent with the school board’s handling of the former Sugarcreek Elementary schoo...
BUTLER TWP — Over 100 students from four school districts learned about identifying and fact-checking misinformation they might encounter on social media sites ...
Following are the swimmers from Butler County area high schools, and their seeds and times, who qualified for the PIAA Swimming Championships, which will be hel...
A private investigator who has offered a $100,000 reward for information regarding the disappearance of Cherrie Mahan is asking for the public’s help in locatin...
Karns City residents raise concern about books, items left behind in elementary ...
Karns City residents r...
Gas prices: ‘drastic and uncommon’
Gas prices: ‘drastic a...
Students learn to identify, debunk online misinformation
Students learn to iden...
PIAA swimming championships 2026: See who qualified from Freeport, Knoch, Mars, ...
PIAA swimming champion...
Private investigator urges public to help with new leads in Cherrie Mahan invest...
BUTLER TWP — With the chance to lock in a much cheaper electricity rate, Butler Area School District is considering establishing solar power on its premises.
District off...
ADAMS TWP — Township supervisors approved the purchase of an Autel Robotics Alpha L35T drone, plus accompanying pilot training, for the township’s police department durin...
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley’s school board approved its share of funding for the Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School and Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV budget...
SLIPPERY ROCK — First responders in the borough stayed busy Saturday, March 7, as Slippery Rock University students celebrated St. Patrick’s Day early during an annual tr...
A Michigan man was sentenced to probation Monday, March 9, in Butler County Common Pleas Court and ordered to register with Pennsylvania State Police as a Megan’s Law off...
A Shippenville man is accused of telling a Slippery Rock University police officer he would “shoot her between her eyes.”
Xavier Scott Van Tassel, 20, was charged Saturd...
Butler Township police are requesting assistance in identifying a hit-and-run driver associated with a Friday afternoon, March 6, crash at Butler Commons.
The crash occu...
Dollar General will continue to expand its presence in Butler County with a new store in Clay Township.
The township’s board of supervisors approved plans at its meeting ...
A Butler man is accused of attempting to burglarize a residence in the 300 block of West Brady Street.
Bruce Lee Stennett, 37, was charged Thursday, March 5, by Butler p...
Patricia Burkhart, Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania’s chief executive officer, announced she is retiring after 23 years in the role. Burkhart will step down in June.
Bur...
People representing businesses and organizations in the Butler area attended an informational session on the evening of March 3, where leaders of the ...
In November, I halted a rehearsal and walked out.
My choir was preparing for our winter concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center. Thousands would attend t...
When changing the clocks this weekend, check the batteries in the smoke detector, too.
That’s the recommendation of the American Red Cross, which has ...
NEW YORK — As the price of crude oil surpassed $110 a barrel Monday, reaching heights not seen since 2022, consumers were feeling the effects of the I...
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is suing to stop the Trump administration from enforcing what it calls an “unlawful campaign of retaliation”...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday it has tentatively settled its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation E...
Tammy Young, chief financial officer of Concordia Community Support Services, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania ...
CHICAGO — Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and ship...
Moraine State Park has a full schedule of special events lined up for the month of March.
March 14, 12:30 p.m.: In honor of Women’s History Month, history buffs are i...
Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston for nearly 20 years based on a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died.
DeCarlo’s chi...
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna’s gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday.
No...
Disney and Pixar’s environmental adventure “Hoppers” topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, a...
NEW YORK — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s al...
At Passavant Community in Zelienople, the beauty of kindness arrives on four wheels. Once a month, a pushcart filled with fresh-cut flowers donated by Trader Joe’s makes...
Cranking up the volume in your car may sound harmless and fun, but it could lead to hearing problems in your older years -- and possibly even increase your risk of dement...
WASHINGTON — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than...
BUTLER TWP — The dance floor may be new for the group of seniors who get together every Monday to line dance together, but the steps remain the same.
The senior line danc...
BROOKLYN, Ill. — Sr. Julia Huiskamp, all 4 feet and 10 inches of her, oversees everything at the Thomas Terry Community Center: the food pantry, the child care, the fundr...
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...
