A Butler County man has been accused of threatening to blow up a house during an argument Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Brian R. McKain, 68, of Center Township, was char...
The large police presence Tuesday night, Oct. 20, on West Brady Street in Butler resulted from a brief vehicle pursuit where the alleged perpetrator fled to a h...
For some individuals, an encounter with a police officer can be terrifying or uncomfortable even if they aren’t in trouble with the law.
This is why the Cranbe...
LANCASTER TWP — Children in Butler County have a new indoor play place to sample: Kidtopia on Perry Highway in Lancaster Township, which opened last month.
At its monthly...
A Butler woman is accused of sending sexually inappropriate photos and engaging in inappropriate acts with a 15 year old while the two were employed at a Cranberry Townsh...
A new law aiming to strengthen Pennsylvania’s consumer protections for telemarketers and robocalls took effect Monday.
The new law, Act 47 of 2026, adds restrictions to m...
A seat on Zelienople Borough Council is vacant as Councilman Steve Schoppe recently stepped down from his role.
Schoppe’s resignation was “reluctantly and unanimously” ac...
SLIPPERY ROCK — A borough council meeting on Tuesday was canceled due to lack of a quorum. A majority of council members, or a quorum, must legally be present at the meet...
At least one person was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township, according...
PENN TWP — Township residents packed the municipal building on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to express their opposition to a proposed project planned to be constructed in an area ne...
The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday, Oct. 20, voted to request an increase in the rates U.S. Marshals Service pays to house and transport federal inmates being held...
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is repaving the Route 422 East to Kittanning ramp off Route 8 in Butler and Center townships Friday, Oct. 23.
The ramp will be ...
As part of federal efforts to modernize facilities, VA Butler Healthcare received funding for nonrecurring maintenance projects happening at the end of this year.
This i...
The Butler Education Association hosts a tailgate party food drive at a Butler Senior High School football game each year. A member of the union said ...
Just three years after OpenAI said its models were good at grade-school math, the company announced they had solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize...
Butler Area School District responded to a threat on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with a modified perimeter lockdown. My understanding of this safety measure ...
How dare President Donald Trump say a 250-day deployment for sailors and Marines aboard the USS Lincoln carrier group “is not nearly long enough.” I w...
Good Samaritan Hospice, a mission of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, is hosting a free holiday bereavement workshop from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 14.
Th...
Steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs, which has a plant in Butler Township, reported its third-quarter earnings results for the period ended Sept. 30.
Thir...
Allegheny Health Network’s Department of OB/GYN opened a specialized care clinic for postpartum patients at West Penn Hospital in Allegheny County.
Th...
The Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce and Butler County Chamber of Commerce are hosting a meet and greet event with state and local offici...
The United States has accumulated more than $40 trillion in national debt. That’s a number so large it’s difficult to comprehend, let alone imagine pa...
The Yoga House is a new yoga studio in Butler. It will have an open house Sunday, Oct. 25.
The open house takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 113 S. McKean Stree...
NEW YORK — Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor in TV and film who often played authority figures but was equally skilled at comedy, notably playing a sad-sack prod...
North American movie theaters were flooded with new films this weekend, including a video game reboot, a big budget survival thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation.
While...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com.
And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
When you gaze at the Butler night sky, especially in the dark countryside, you can see all kinds of “people and creatures” up there.
Right now, there’s a disgraced hunte...
It’s not a new trend.
Anyone paying attention to things happening with fire departments and EMS agencies will tell you those involved have been raising alarms for years ...
This year’s Zelienople Fall Festival brought together the community for an evening of activities Friday.
The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and fr...
When neighbors walk past Deb West’s patio home in the Meeder neighborhood in Cranberry Township, her front porch catches their attention.
Filled with colorful seasonal fl...
Kathy Garrison has been cancer free for decades now, but her experiences during and after treatment had stuck with her.
One especially impactful struggle for her was in ...
CENTER TWP — When it comes to cancer, Cheryl Schaefer is all about the fight.
Schaefer, 68, of Center Township, has fought uterine, breast and thyroid cancer over the yea...
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...
