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YMCA to build rental cabins at Armco Park
With a few new amenities, Butler County Family YMCA is hoping to make Armco Park a destination. The YMCA plans to build three rental cabins to give people anoth...
Community Partnership executive director no longer with agency
Sandra Curry, the former executive director of Community Partnership Inc., announced she is no longer with the nonprofit agency through social media Wednesday, ...
A former Karns City soccer player has found new success in women’s pro football with Pittsburgh Passion
CANTON, Ohio — An hour before the start of the Women’s Football Alliance Pro National Championship game Saturday afternoon, two patrons were wearing black-and-g...
Worth Township files complaint seeking $12,000 for property maintenance ordinance violation
Worth Township has filed a civil complaint seeking a $12,000 judgment against a resident alleging he accumulated junk and debris on his property that washed int...
Seneca Valley area athletic teams react to death of 2 youth coaches
The Seneca Valley area athletic community is reacting this week following the deaths of two youth coaches, Cody L. Huffman and T.V. Garrett Griffin, who were ki...
YMCA to build rental cabins at Armco Park
YMCA to build rental c...
Community Partnership executive director no longer with agency
Community Partnership ...
A former Karns City soccer player has found new success in women’s pro football ...
A former Karns City so...
Worth Township files complaint seeking $12,000 for property maintenance ordinanc...
Worth Township files c...
Seneca Valley area athletic teams react to death of 2 youth coaches
Seneca Valley area ath...
Top Headlines
Each year, millions of dollars from SNAP recipients are drained through skimming fraud across the country. After relying on magnetic strip cards for years, officials in ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
A man whose body was found in a trash can in a Butler apartment in June died from combined drug poisoning, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office. Philip Schiede...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Penn State Extension’s Butler County office hosted a field day event for corn and soybean farmers at The Vettori’s farm supply store in Saxonburg on Thursday morning, Jul...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Multiple development plans also to be considered
July 31, 2026 Local News
Matthew Marc Kennedy, 56, of Butler, is facing a second-degree felony strangulation charge and a second-degree misdemeanor assault charge after police said he choked a wo...
July 30, 2026 Local News
News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp July 17 — Matthew George Born, 44, of Valencia, was charged with one mis...
July 31, 2026 Local News
Warren Wiebe, the 70-year-old man who set out on a 24-hour journey on his bike through about 165 miles of the Great Allegheny Passage to raise funds for research of a rar...
July 30, 2026 Local News
A Zelienople woman is accused of assaulting three employees, including spitting on one employee’s face, at Butler Memorial Hospital. Michele Lynn Cannon, 61, was charged ...
July 30, 2026 Local News
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is hosting an open house to attract full-time maintenance and winter-only maintenance workers in Butler County. The open hou...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Cranberry Township and the Cranberry Foundation will unveil new fitness courts in the UPMC Passavant Sportsplex at Graham Park. The facilities will give residents a space...
July 30, 2026 Local News
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Community
Laura J. Doerr Memorial Park in Jefferson Township hosted the first Hard Hats and Home Run...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
July 30, 2026
It’s certainly rare to have a total solar eclipse and one of the best meteor showers in th...
July 30, 2026
Unionville Grange donated $500 to the Disabled American Veterans. Virginia Mangel from Uni...
July 30, 2026
Butler County experts say idea could reduce collisions
July 30, 2026
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Sports
LATROBE — At the time, Broderick Jones thought it was no big deal. Walking off the field i...
 
Sometimes the run is only part of the fun. Two races this weekend reward finishers with po...
July 30, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Another lefty meant another loss for the Pirates in their rubber match agains...
July 29, 2026
Jason Thompson guided Mars varsity baseball to five WPIAL playoff appearances in six years...
July 29, 2026
PITTSBURGH — James McCann singled in the winning run in the 12th inning with his fourth hi...
July 28, 2026
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Editorial
The revitalization of Butler’s Main Street may come from a joint effort from the Butler County Chamber of Commerce and Butler Downtown to pursue Main ...
July 31, 2026 Our Opinion
July 31, 2026 Cartoons
Across Pennsylvania, employers are asking a familiar question: Where are the workers? It is the wrong question, or at least an incomplete one. Yes, ma...
July 31, 2026 Other Voices
July 29, 2026 Cartoons
The City of Butler announced a zero-tolerance policy on electronic bicycles, otherwise known as e-bikes, effective July 23, due to violent crashes wit...
July 29, 2026 Our Opinion
Business
Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or, eventually, even brake pedals as the...
July 30, 2026 Business
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers impacted by increased input costs and natural disasters that deadlines to apply...
July 30, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, although three officials dissented in favor of higher rates as the ce...
July 29, 2026 Business
At Mars Pizza, the most popular order is still the simplest one. Cheese pizza remains the customer favorite, followed closely by pepperoni. But Mike P...
July 29, 2026 Business
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which...
July 28, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Butler County Community College is hosting the fourth annual Pioneer Pursuit on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the college’s main campus in Butler Township. Pioneer Pursuit is a ...
July 30, 2026 Local News
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Arts & Entertainment
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it. Hart plays a successful New ...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
An upcoming re-issue of The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” album features an unreleased song demo from John Lennon. Pre-orders for the newly mixed rendition of the 1965 record ar...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
PRAGUE — With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “The Odyssey” recording impressive sales around the globe, thousands of Europeans have used it as a new and unexpecte...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during this year’s 78th Emmy Awards for his work in advancing research into Parkinson’s disease, wi...
July 30, 2026 People
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Special Sections
Residents of Mars are already quite familiar with the name “Purvis Brothers,” the 95-year-old family-owned fuel distribution company which also owns the small Planet Mart...
July 29, 2026 Special Sections
Although nearly every township or borough in Butler County has a municipal park or recreation complex of some kind, few — if any — can boast of one quite as expansive as ...
July 29, 2026 Local News
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
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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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