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Local News
MIDDLESEX TWP — A conditional use application for the planned Pfeifer Farm wedding venue was reviewed at a public hearing before the Middlesex Township board of superviso...
June 18, 2026 Local News
Butler County commissioners approved an application Wednesday, June 17, for nearly $61 million in federal funds to complete the fifth, final and most expensive segment of...
June 18, 2026 Local News
Commissioners appoint attorney to complete five-year term of late board member
June 17, 2026 Local News
Butler County residents will be facing the fourth significant storm system in the past 12 days Wednesday night into Thursday. According to the National Weather Service of...
June 17, 2026 Local News
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank’s policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year...
June 17, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Shoppers stepped up their spending in May and surpassed expectations as temperatures warmed and gasoline prices leveled off. Retail sales rose 0.9%, up from...
June 17, 2026 Business
Pittsburgh-based Mecka Fitness will open its third location this fall at 700 Thomson Park Drive in Cranberry Township. The 6,250-square-foot location is projected to brin...
June 17, 2026 Business
The VA Butler Healthcare Center will host a weeklong celebration from June 29 to July 2 to celebrate America’s 250th and the Veterans’ Health Administration’s 80th birthd...
June 17, 2026 Local News
Tears streaming down her face and husband’s documentation in hand, Amanda Smail-Carrizalez recalled Wednesday how the man she married 14 years ago was taken into ICE cust...
June 17, 2026 Local News
The American mall was once considered a dying relic of the pre-internet era, battered by e-commerce, shifting consumer habits and the collapse of traditional department s...
June 17, 2026 Business
Other News
WASHINGTON — Cameron Hamilton, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pledged to senators Wednesday to be “fair and reasonable”...
June 17, 2026 National News
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — Tropical Storm Arthur formed off the Texas coast on Wednesday as the first tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic basin , threatening a wide ...
June 17, 2026 National News
Investigators combed through wreckage Wednesday for clues to why a business jet crashed on a Texas highway, killing one person on board after its pilots reported mechanic...
June 17, 2026 National News
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions over the past seven years, said Tuesday that Ohio should abolish the death penalty, ...
June 17, 2026 National News
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday threw their support behind U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open...
June 17, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The interim deal between the United States and Iran is supposed to usher in a two-month period that would address the most divisive issue between the longti...
June 17, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — Most Americans believe civil liberties like the right to vote are under threat, according to a new AP-NORC poll, while also continuing to agree that the righ...
June 17, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione plans to mount a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial this fall, an attempt to justify killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson beca...
June 17, 2026 National News
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him Wednesday before he was sentenced...
June 17, 2026 National News
SPOKANE, Wash. — High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people and destroying some homes, fire officia...
June 17, 2026 National News
Sports
When it came to softball at St. Francis University, Mars graduate and current Butler coach Kara Sroka was as good as it got. A 2009 SFU graduate, Sroka left the Red Flash...
June 18, 2026 Sports
It makes sense that the older you get, the more you should celebrate each birthday. That’s true for races as well as for people. Strawberry Days 5K in Grove City kicks of...
June 18, 2026 Sports
The Butler Iron Bucks shut down the Allegheny A’s in a late Tuesday night 4-0 road win. The victory improves Butler to 6-2 on the season, with a doubleheader coming up Sa...
June 17, 2026 Sports
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 the honors...
June 17, 2026 Sports
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 the honors...
June 17, 2026 Sports
EVANS CITY — Longtime Seneca Valley wrestling coach Joe Montalbano provided a space to young wrestlers for years to train OMP. OMP stood for One More Period, a wrestling ...
June 17, 2026 Sports
Editorial
June 17, 2026 Cartoons
Sometimes, even in these divisive political times, there is a decision made by our elected officials that everyone can praise. That was the case last week when the Butler...
June 17, 2026 Our Opinion
There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government social insurance programs. Last week the...
June 17, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Wonders of Nature on Postcards, from the collection of Laurel Patterson, is on display in the second-floor showcase at Butler Area Public Library through July. The d...
June 17, 2026 Community
Historian Bill May will take a journey back in time to Butler’s “lost amusement park” on Tuesday, June 23. The free presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the First Resp...
June 17, 2026 Community
The Buffalo Township Police Department, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, will hold a public discussion on scams and drug awareness a...
June 17, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Eleanor R. Spohn who passed away eight years ago today, June 18, 2018. Sadly missed by, Joe and Family ...
June 18, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
The Harmony Borough Parks Board’s Summer Concert Series begins Thursday, June 18, with a performance by This, That and the Other Thing. The show will begin at 7 p.m. in t...
June 18, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
NEW YORK — Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. Following his Oscar-winning p...
June 18, 2026 People
For the first time in 12 years, the Cranberry Artists Network will host “A Summer Night with Monet,” a show strictly featuring members’ work in July and August. In other...
June 17, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
‘Party’ takes place June 27
June 17, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
My father is what we call an audiophile: a lover of music who is specific about how they listen to music. We have a huge sound system in my living room with quality speak...
June 17, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
‘Ruthless’ a musical about musicals
June 17, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
June 18, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds — his name is the Lord— and rejoice before him. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, ...
June 18, 2026 Verse of the Day
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 17, 2026 Special Sections
A good Father’s Day gift can be hard to find. Although another tie or Best Dad Ever mug may be good gift ideas, but several Butler County businesses shared their creative...
June 17, 2026 Local News
The best people to ask for advice are those who have done it all before. When it comes to parenting, grandparents fit that description perfectly. For Father’s Day, four g...
June 17, 2026 Special Sections
Americans spent a record $24 billion on Father's Day in 2025, and trends indicate it'll likely increase this year. The average shopper lays out about $199 on greeting car...
June 17, 2026 Special Sections
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