The Earth didn’t exactly shake when the New York Yankees announced that they would allow their players to wear beards. However, the change in the half-century-old policy ...
Seneca Valley and Knoch school boards chose to vote against Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School’s 2025-26 budget this year because their members feel the teach...
After years of grinding lower, a widely watched measure of fertility in a country battling significant demographic headwinds notched a small increase. While welcome, ther...
A study published last month in Nature, a science journal, underscores the potential for a new, personalized pancreatic cancer vaccine to keep the disease from coming bac...
The renovation of the catheterization laboratory at Butler Memorial Hospital is nothing but good news for people whose closest health care facility is the hospital.
Accor...
The U.S. Supreme Court has proven its mettle in its first important confrontation with the Trump administration — barely. By a 5-4 vote, the court upheld an order by a fe...
Here’s a crazy stat: Since September, Mexico has reformed its constitution 14 times, changing 70 articles in the country’s charter.
You don’t need to be an expert on Mexi...
As Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, listened in increasing dismay to President Donald Trump’s display of global whataboutism at the Oval Office on Feb. 28, it wa...
Since the Butler Middle School closed following the 2021-22 school year, we've followed the district's progress in finding a new fate for the Butler building.
We've wonde...
Nearly 200 years after it opened its doors, a Saxonburg institution closed its doors for what might be the final time this week.
Hotel Saxonburg, which first opened in 18...
