A visiting judge recused himself from the trial of a Butler man charged in the October 2023 death of a 15-year-old boy who was struck while he was riding his bi...
The Karns City Gremlins return a number of players who possess the talent and experience that should keep the team in the running for back-to-back District 9 Cl...
Once again this season, Butler County soccer fields won’t have a shortage of talent, from established standouts to rising stars who haven’t yet made a name for ...
A Penn Township woman who taught at Beaver Falls High School is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a 16-year-old student.
Sarah Jo Massa, 24, is ...
Connoquenessing Township submits revised Act 537 sewer plan to DEP
Connoquenessing Townsh...
Judge recuses himself from Rivera trial
Judge recuses himself ...
Karns City football 2026 preview: What to watch, 3 things to know and schedule
Karns City football 20...
Meet Top 12 players to watch in Butler County during the 2026 PIAA boys soccer s...
Meet Top 12 players to...
Penn Township woman, Big Beaver Falls teacher accused of sending sexually explic...
A Lawrence County motorcyclist is now charged with DUI in a Jackson Township crash that sent himself and another woman to hospitals last month.
Parker Lewis Lumley, 27, o...
As Emily Brittain Elementary School’s playground held its grand opening, the laughs and squeals of children playing could be heard.
Butler Area School District hosted a r...
CHERRY TWP — Moniteau School District’s board of directors appointed Nicole Sadler, a resident of Clay Township and former school board candidate, to fill a vacant seat a...
JACKSON TWP — At an agenda-setting meeting on Monday, Aug. 17, township officials moved a number of items up for vote forward to the board of supervisors meeting on Thurs...
Harmony officials are seeking state support for construction work on some of the borough’s streets.
At its meeting on Aug. 4, council voted to apply for a state Departmen...
For a second time this year, drivers will spot hundreds of radar and yard signs across Cranberry Township reminding them to follow the posted speed limit.
The biannual ca...
Local school districts will receive new funding meant to help strengthen physical security, address safety concerns and provide behavioral health support for students and...
The southbound lane of South Duffy Road near its intersection with Route 68 will close for a few days beginning Monday, Aug. 24.
Dave Meeder, director of public works for...
Math can mean different things to different people. It’s simple sums for children or sophisticated models for hedge fund managers. For mathematicians,...
Eyes across Pennsylvania, and political strategists nationwide, are watching southwestern Butler County.
As voters in the state House’s 12th District ...
Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two.
This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves.
Ju...
Supposedly, with age comes wisdom. At my age, 70s, confusion is replacing it. As were so many Americans, I was raised in a loving family that worked h...
WOBURN, Mass. — At a Massachusetts lab, pebble-sized pellets are transformed into forks and films that won't leave persistent microplastics in the env...
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in Calif...
Chrysler parent Stellantis NV said it's recalling about 848,000 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles in the United States due to radio software that...
Amazon just made it harder for customers to take it to court.
On Friday, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant sent its customers an email informing them...
A jury awarded $29 million to the family of an Irish United Nations worker who died when a Boeing 737 Max fatally crashed in Ethiopia in 2019.
Michael...
There will be more than 100 raffle baskets up for grabs Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Sts. Francis and Clare Parish picnic at St. Wendelin, but the winners of the grand prizes ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Adam Driver will make a long-anticipated entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play super villain Mister Sinister, and “Obsession” breakout sta...
The final season of “Outer Banks” and a new album from Anthony Hopkins (yes, Sir Anthony Hopkins) are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a devic...
At the end of Hayden Panettiere’s memoir, which she published in May, she wrote about learning the principle of “radical acceptance” in her years of treatment programs fo...
Two very different dinosaur movies devoured a modest chunk of the North American box office this weekend, although neither came close to unseating “Spider-Man” from its p...
LOS ANGELES — Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Kathar...
A Cranberry Township grandfather was browsing through Walmart late last fall when he spotted a bin filled with 24-count boxes of Crayola crayons priced at 25 cents each.
...
Across Pennsylvania, momentum is gaining to restrict K-12 students’ cellphone use during the instructional day. Each side of the General Assembly recently passed legislat...
Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy — weighed down by digital devices, musical instruments, sports equipment and more. Some kids c...
For teenagers and middle school-aged students, cellphones can be a key tool for parents to stay connected to their children. Yet, cellphones do not come without drawbacks...
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...
