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Local News
The state Department of Transportation is looking for property owners interested in housing fill dump sites from upcoming shoulder grading and ditch cleaning operations. ...
April 06, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung ...
April 06, 2026 Business
A Butler County man has filed a lawsuit against a woman who he said struck him with her vehicle in August 2024 while he was jogging in Zelienople. Gregory Price and his w...
April 06, 2026 Crime & Courts
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the central bank’s 2% targ...
April 06, 2026 National News
Two Beaver County residents are accused of selling drugs out of a Cranberry Township hotel. David Lee Lyons, 64, of Beaver Falls, and Crystal Dallas, 46, of Koppel, were ...
April 06, 2026 Local News
The Zelienople Borough Police Department is spreading awareness of the laws surrounding e-bikes as temperatures begin to rise. According to the state Department of Trans...
April 06, 2026 Local News
Sunday, April 5, marked the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, as Butler County residents flocked to churches for services. One of the largest service...
April 06, 2026 Local News
Real Estate Transactions These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Jan. 12 to 16: Adams Township Far View Farms Development to NVR at 3063 T...
April 06, 2026 Real Estate Transactions
Children got a chance to add a little challenge to their Easter egg hunts this year. Fairview Township hosted a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt for children up to fifth grade S...
April 06, 2026 Local News
Other News
HAVANA — Two U.S lawmakers called for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island....
April 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal convic...
April 06, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — There are many ways to win an I Love My Librarian Award. You might be a fighter against book bans, like Valerie Byrd Fort at the University of South Carolina;...
April 06, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones...
April 06, 2026 International News
TEHRAN, Iran — President Donald Trump on Monday expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges as his ultimatum to make a deal ticked closer, af...
April 06, 2026 International News
Sports
Making history became a theme this season for Knoch boys basketball senior Teegan Finucan. Shortly after he broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career, which...
April 06, 2026 Sports
Jence Rhoads expanded her family’s basketball legacy growing up A 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate, Rhoads became an all-state basketball player for the Rockets an...
April 06, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, April 6 Baseball 4 — Wilmington at Slippery Rock Girls Flag Football 3:30 — New Cast...
April 06, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The NFL draft coming to Pittsburgh later this month is a big deal for the city. The league’s signature offseason event will span three days and is expected t...
April 06, 2026 Professional
Editorial
Zelienople keeps proving itself to be a tight-knit community of people who will help one another when a fire strikes a business and apartment and also plan holiday festiv...
April 06, 2026 Our Opinion
April 06, 2026 Cartoons
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit. In February, Banglade...
April 06, 2026 Other Voices
Community
New and experienced home gardeners can prepare for the growing season by attending an upcoming workshop led by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners. “Spring into Gardeni...
April 06, 2026 Community
Experience the North Country Trail at two April events organized by the Butler County chapter of the North Country Trail Association. There will be a meeting Wednesday, A...
April 06, 2026 Community
MIDDLESEX TWP — For John Porter, certain work days remind him to tell the people in his life he cares about them before it’s too late. He has found — in just a year of wo...
April 06, 2026 Community
The South Butler Community Library is holding a bingo game fundraiser event at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at Bastin Distillery on North Isabella Street in Saxonburg For ...
April 06, 2026 Community
Maddox Grupp, of Cranberry Township Boy Scout Troop 403, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout on March 30, 2026. For his Eagle Scout project, Maddox worked with Mike Manipol...
April 06, 2026 Community
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Yup, she wore something blue. Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,...
April 06, 2026 People
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