A camper fire prompted emergency responses from five companies Tuesday afternoon, April 7, in Franklin Township, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch.
The call came in around 12:10 p.m. for reports of a camper on fire with others nearby in the area of North Road and Nazarene Lane.
Prospect Volunteer Fire Department, Un...
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a...
An Evans City man is accused of first raping a woman when she was a teenage girl, then continuing the behavior for at least eight years as she became an adult, ...
Knoch’s school board announced at a Jan. 14 meeting they would sign off on a teachers contract, calmly resolving a disagreement over health care language. Month...
Madison Romanovich is the blueprint of what her teammates and future Slippery Rock girls basketball players aspire to be.
“Starting as a freshman, and kind ...
Trump warns a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if a deal with Iran isn't re...
Trump warns a ‘whole c...
Police: Evans City man groomed, raped teen for years
Police: Evans City man...
Knoch teachers’ contract still at stalemate
Knoch teachers’ contra...
No Butler County court cases impacted by second-degree murder ruling
No Butler County court...
Butler County’s girls basketball 2026 all-stars: Madison Romanovich POTY, first ...
A Winfield Township meat distributor is accused of assaulting a woman after an argument in charges filed Monday, April 6.
Daniel Keith McKruit, 66, of McKruit’s Meats, w...
MARS — Borough council announced it has opted for the Rave Alert system from Motorola as its new municipal emergency alert notification system at a council meeting on Mon...
WEST LIBERTY — After the death of former Mayor Betty Kreutz last week, borough council voted to appoint an interim mayor.
Michael Bosch, a lifelong resident of West Liber...
East Butler approved a bid for future tar and chipping work on roads and alleys in the borough at their April 6 meeting.
Out of three bids, Russell Standard’s bid of $96...
Two Beaver County residents are accused of selling drugs out of a Cranberry Township hotel.
David Lee Lyons, 64, of Beaver Falls, and Crystal Dallas, 46, of Koppel, were ...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District’s board approved the termination of Series 2007 bonds in a Monday, April 6, special meeting and will vote to swap it for another ...
The state Department of Transportation is looking for property owners interested in housing fill dump sites from upcoming shoulder grading and ditch cleaning operations. ...
A Butler County man has filed a lawsuit against a woman who he said struck him with her vehicle in August 2024 while he was jogging in Zelienople.
Gregory Price and his w...
The Zelienople Borough Police Department is spreading awareness of the laws surrounding e-bikes as temperatures begin to rise.
According to the state Department of Trans...
Sunday, April 5, marked the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, as Butler County residents flocked to churches for services.
One of the largest service...
I’m going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, sk...
Zelienople keeps proving itself to be a tight-knit community of people who will help one another when a fire strikes a business and apartment and also...
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit.
I...
Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday it is raising checked baggage fees, part of a broader wave of U.S. carriers responding to higher jet fuel prices tie...
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
But the law has spur...
Adams Township-based manufacturer Mars Mineral has hired Elliott Woodward, son of president Clayton Woodward, as a new business manager.
He is the th...
NEW YORK — Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app.
According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. suppo...
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the ce...
The Bach Society will have two spring choral concerts in early May.
Under the direction of Leo R. Sayles, the choral group will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, at Cen...
Sydney Sweeney starring as real-life boxing legend Christy Martin in the movie “Christy” and “Hacks” launching its fifth and final season on HBO are some of the new telev...
NEW YORK — Yup, she wore something blue.
Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,...
Two couples. Too much wine. One loaded question: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?
The revelations that tumble from that truth-or-dare-style drinking game badly te...
There are some things you might expect, even count on, in a Super Mario Galaxy movie. The introduction of the celestial Princess Rosalina? Check. A scene of her reading b...
NEW YORK — Blake Lively’s sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni over the movie “It Ends With Us” were dismissed Thursday by a federal judge who left intact thre...
In like a lion, out like a lamb? March serves as more than a transition month.
It’s also preparation time for the rites of spring: Greener grass, blooming flower beds and...
Verah Vucelich, 3, kicked away from the side of the pool, a small foam backpack strapped to her chest, as her instructor encouraged her from a few feet away.
In adjacent ...
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...
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...
