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Pa. Supreme Court: Skill games are slot machines
Action on ruling delayed for 120 days
Vote for your Butler Eagle Female Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 2025-26
The Butler Eagle has celebrated its top male and female athletes of the school year each of the past two summers. This time, we are announcing our nominees for ...
Butler County police urge caution, knowing the law when riding e-bikes
With warmer weather finally sticking around in Butler County, police departments across the area are urging those riding electronic bikes to be cognizant of the...
Clay Township home smashed by tree in Sunday storms
Power outages, downed trees and lines plague county
Vote for your Butler Eagle Male Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 2025-26
The Butler Eagle has celebrated its top male and female athletes of the school year each of the past two summers. This time, we are announcing our nominees for ...
Pa. Supreme Court: Skill games are slot machines
Pa. Supreme Court: Ski...
Vote for your Butler Eagle Female Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 2...
Vote for your Butler E...
Butler County police urge caution, knowing the law when riding e-bikes
Butler County police u...
Clay Township home smashed by tree in Sunday storms
Clay Township home sma...
Vote for your Butler Eagle Male Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 202...
Vote for your Butler E...
Top Headlines
Butler County commissioners are supporting this year’s legislative priorities of the state county commissioners association, including seeking increased funding for 911 a...
June 16, 2026 Government
MARS — Borough council set a public hearing date to hear discussion in regards to the potential Mars/Adams Township merger. During its meeting June 15, council passed a m...
June 16, 2026 Local News
State police issued almost 700 citations and more than 300 warnings related to Paul Miller’s Law in its first three days of enforcement with fines, according to a Friday,...
June 15, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — A recent event by the township raised thousands of dollars for a local foundation to fight hunger among students. The Butler Township Board of Commissioners ...
June 16, 2026 Local News
KARNS CITY — While a large scale high school renovation with an eight-figure price tag looms over future budgets, Karns City Area School District is standing pat with its...
June 16, 2026 Local News
News
MARS — Patriotic celebrations will take place across two days this year in Mars for their America250 and July 4 celebration. “Things are shaping up pretty good for (July)...
June 16, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp June 5 — Alexandria C. Trapani, 23, of Butler, was charged with misdemea...
June 16, 2026 Local News
Karns City Area Elementary School is crediting Sonneborn, LLC with providing financial support for the school’s positive behavioral interventions program and promoting it...
June 15, 2026 Education
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is taking no chances with New World screwworm and has issued an official quarantine order to prevent an infestation of the pest...
June 15, 2026 Local News
For some Mars Area School District families, opening their doors to American newcomers have helped build relationships that last a lifetime. Through the American Field Se...
June 15, 2026 Local News
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Community
A community event focused on teaching and promoting water safety is returning to the Cranb...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Community hosts sale to spruce up neighborhood for holiday
June 14, 2026
BUFFALO TWP — Kaylinh Lundell, 6, was listening to the radio in the car one day in Decembe...
June 14, 2026
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Joe Hardisky and Tammy Veloski trekked more than 14 miles through Clea...
June 14, 2026
The Middlesex Township Police Department will play the role of “ice cream man” on Saturday...
June 12, 2026
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Sports
Valencia resident and Pine-Richland graduate Levi Wentz signed a one-year deal with the Pi...
 
The adage “getting there is half the fun,” has philosophical meaning in regards to many of...
June 14, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK — Josh Wilburn and his dad were shouting and jumping up and down on their ...
June 13, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK — Grant Weaver loves the spin move. He’ll offer casual ones to weave his w...
June 13, 2026
The PIAA boys and girls lacrosse tournaments continue Tuesday, and Mars’ boys are hoping t...
June 13, 2026
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Editorial
Not only is it amazing that a 6-year-old girl started an artistic movement to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the fact her init...
June 16, 2026 Our Opinion
June 15, 2026 Cartoons
Saturdays in Greenwich Village require contending with the lines. Starting at 9 a.m., you see blocks-long queues of people waiting for all sorts of t...
June 15, 2026 Other Voices
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour three times. The state Senate has failed to act. Ove...
June 13, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Channeling Dr. Seuss, here is a warning for old and young alike about the dangers of the upcoming holiday. If you look up at the sky For the fireworks...
June 13, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
NEW YORK — Stock markets rallied worldwide Monday, and oil prices eased after the United States and Iran reached a tentative deal to extend their ceas...
June 15, 2026 Business
Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $22 billion, including debt. Roku will continue to be...
June 15, 2026 Business
A first-of-its-kind law in New York could force 3D printers sold for homes and business to come equipped with technology blocking them from making gun...
June 14, 2026 Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Nara Organics recalled its organic baby formula sold nationwide in Target stores and online Saturday after a multistate outbreak of i...
June 14, 2026 Business
The days of your local landscaping company showing up to jobsites without shirts on are long gone. Local business owners and industry experts say it i...
June 13, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Jennings Environmental Education Center will have a look at a part of Revolutionary history that is often overlooked — Wester...
June 10, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
With a great rumor comes great speculation, and Zendaya and fiancé Tom Holland made their first red carpet appearance Monday amid recent chatter they’d already tied the k...
June 16, 2026 People
RIO DE JANEIRO — Officials in Brazil on Monday were inspecting the site of a crash in which six people were killed Sunday, after two helicopters collided midair over a s...
June 15, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” billed as his first popcorn movie in years, launched with $44 million in domestic theaters, according to studio estimates...
June 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night at age 36. “It was instinctual. No one taught me how to ...
June 13, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
“Disclosure Day” invites you into its world with a kick to the face. Or maybe it’s a stomp. Whatever it is, this opening sequence, in a garish professional wrestling ...
June 13, 2026 Reviews
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Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are a list o...
June 15, 2026 Special Sections
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
June 15, 2026 Special Sections
One funeral home offers new location, another offers pet cremations
June 15, 2026 Special Sections
WORTH TWP — Although the parking lots and trails at Cooper’s Lake Event Venue and Campground on Saturday, June 13, were filled with Jeeps, you did not need a Jeep to have...
June 14, 2026 Local News
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
June 12, 2026 Local News
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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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