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Local News
PORTERSVILLE — Borough Councilman Dave Marcyjanik said Portersville has just begun the process of seeking interested candidates for the borough’s next mayor, who will suc...
May 05, 2026 Government
BUTLER TWP — Township residents will have their trash services covered by their current vendor from 2027 through 2030. Butler Township commissioners voted unanimously Mon...
May 05, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Just four months after creating and advertising for the position, township officials have sworn in their new deputy chief of police. John Herold took the oat...
May 05, 2026 Local News
Proposal includes 5.03 mill real estate tax increase
May 05, 2026 Local News
Balanced budget would see small increases in spending and revenue
May 05, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — The 1 p.m. band rehearsal April 21 was like any ordinary day for Jeff Kroner, head band director at Butler Area School District. His students started the per...
May 05, 2026 Local News
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler April 19 — Paul Thomas Downey, 44, of Cranberry Township, was charged ...
May 05, 2026 Local News
The robotics pioneer who helped unleash the Roomba vacuum is now betting that you might one day replace your beloved dog or cat with a plush robot that follows you around...
May 05, 2026 Business
A Cranberry Township resident, who was once employed as a teacher in Beaver County, is accused of attempting to commit sex acts with a person he thought was an 11-year-ol...
May 04, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced Monday, May 4, a change to traffic patterns for the Route 422 bridge preservation project in Butler and Summit townships will take effect Thursday, May ...
May 04, 2026 Local News
Other News
California is investigating one of the Trump administration's deals to end an offshore wind project. Golden State Wind was a floating offshore wind project proposed off ...
May 04, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A man spotted carrying a gun in the vicinity of the White House by plainclothes officers and agents was shot by law enforcement Monday after he opened fire o...
May 04, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the ma...
May 04, 2026 National News
EDMOND, Okla. — Authorities in Oklahoma were looking for suspects Monday in a weekend shooting at an unsanctioned lakeside party packed with young adults that left at lea...
May 04, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — John Sterling, the longtime New York Yankees radio broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls, has died, the team and radio station WFAN ...
May 04, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats targeting civilian ships as it moved to reopen the Strait of Horm...
May 04, 2026 International News
MANILA, Philippines — Nearly 200,000 people in 124 villages in the northeastern Philippines were affected and over 5,400 fled massive plumes of ash that billowed from May...
May 04, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator, his spokesperson said Mond...
May 04, 2026 National News
Russia’s Defense Ministry declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday and Saturday to mark the 81st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, b...
May 04, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said Monday that two American-flagged merchant ships had successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz and that Navy guided-...
May 04, 2026 International News
Sports
New opponent and a new venue, but the result was the same for boxer Michael Miles. The Butler resident and 2011 Seneca Valley graduate won the Pa. Golden Gloves heavyweig...
May 05, 2026 Sports
SEATTLE — Steven Thompson began playing hockey in 2017, but it wasn’t until he met Joey Gale that he truly felt seen in his new sport. Thompson said he had a few teammate...
May 05, 2026 Sports
Mady Bell and Addyson Caruso both had two hits and two RBIs as Freeport softball downed Greensburg Salem 13-0 in six innings Monday. Lauren Clark also homered for the Yel...
May 04, 2026 Sports
Kevin Trost’s eighth season as head coach of Seneca Valley boys varsity basketball will be his last. He resigned from the position April 27. A Seneca Valley athletic dep...
May 04, 2026 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — For Slippery Rock, charity definitely began at home. The Rockets took advantage of 10 walks, three hit batsmen and an error — being handed 14 runners ...
May 04, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Paul Skenes stood at his locker in a near-silent Pittsburgh clubhouse Thursday after a four-game home sweep at the hands of St. Louis and offered a predictio...
May 04, 2026 Professional
BUTLER TWP — Michelle Jacobson just missed qualifying for the WPIAL Track and Field Championships last year in the shot put with a season high of 32 feet, 8 ½ inches. A r...
May 04, 2026 Sports
They say too much of anything is bad. Flexibility on a sports team is certainly an exception, and Karns City has a heavy dose of it in Addison Burrows and Abigail Dunlap....
May 04, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, May 4 Baseball 4 — Freeport at Southmoreland 4 — Mars at Shaler 4 — Sharon at Slippery Ro...
May 04, 2026 Sports
Editorial
May 04, 2026 Cartoons
High school students can recognize graffiti when they see it. They can also surmise that it is an art form that its makers spend a lot of time honing and working on, no ...
May 04, 2026 Our Opinion
No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business p...
May 04, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Joanne Hagofsky, of Armstrong County, published a children’s book she wrote and illustrated that tells the story of the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly. “T...
May 04, 2026 Community
Mars Area High School will have its 2026 prom from 7 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday, May 8, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry Township. This year’s theme is “Ma...
May 04, 2026 Community
Andrew Effect initiative stocks Butler schools with ‘Dramatic Play Centers’
May 04, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
VENTURA, Calif. — Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused h...
May 05, 2026 People
“The Drama,” a rom-com that goes bad starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and the synth-pop group MUNA releasing their fourth studio album, “Dancing on the Wall,” are s...
May 04, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
May 05, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. — Romans 12:12 ...
May 05, 2026 Verse of the Day
May 04, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Keller Williams Realty is asking everyone, parent or not, to “run like a mother” this Mother’s Day, May 10, for their annual 5K and one-mile walk at Moraine State Park. B...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
Stephen Harding, an instructor at the Butler Art Center and Gallery, has plenty of ideas for unique, affordable crafts for all ages. From bookmarks to painted terracotta ...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
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