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Read the latest news from today along with all of the articles published yesterday to the website in preparation for the current print edition of the Butler Eagle.
Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Butler County’s budding entrepreneurs took center stage Tuesday, April 28, as the Butler County Chamber of Commerce hosted its take on a longstanding real...
April 29, 2026 Business
Butler Transit Authority is set to have a balanced operational budget for fiscal year 2026-27, including a raise for employees. The authority’s board of directors voted u...
April 29, 2026 Local News
ADAMS TWP — In the 12th legislative district, Ethan Nicholas and Scott Timko both portray themselves as solidly conservative and proud Republicans, though they hold some ...
April 29, 2026 Local News
State police shared alert on resident’s statements
April 28, 2026 Local News
Two years into his English literature degree at the University of Pittsburgh, sophomore Luke Johnson has noticed something in his liberal arts courses: Students in his cl...
April 28, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Brian M. Bailey, the sitting mayor of Portersville, died of natural causes on Sunday morning, April 19, at the age of 67. Prior to his death, Bailey had served as mayor f...
April 28, 2026 Local News
SEVEN FIELDS — A husband and wife died in an apparent murder-suicide early Tuesday, April 28, in the area of Graywyck Drive, according to state police. Ryan Hosso, 26, c...
April 28, 2026 Local News
Earlier this year, the Saxonburg Area Authority received a grant of $489,558 through the Pennsylvania Small Water and Sewer Program. The funds will be used to upgrade a l...
April 28, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Sam Keefer, a junior at Seneca Valley High School and a lifelong resident of Zelienople, took his oath of office as junior council member at Monday’s borough...
April 28, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK ― Slippery Rock Area School District’s board unanimously approved installation of a platform and railings leading to the only roof access at Slippery Rock A...
April 28, 2026 Local News
Other News
PITTSBURGH — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been quietly expanding its presence in the Pittsburgh area after leasing space in a five-story office in the western ...
April 29, 2026 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly in April despite growing anxiety over soaring energy prices brought on by the war in Iran. The Conference Board said ...
April 28, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel of its third-largest producer and further...
April 28, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Tuesday that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday that feature a ...
April 28, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials are evaluating how to proceed with some high-profile public events featuring President Donald Trump after the attack at the...
April 28, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has boarded another commercial vessel during blockade of Iran's ports, but unlike in previous cases, the ship was ultimately allowed to car...
April 28, 2026 International News
WARSAW, Poland — Prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been released from jail in Belarus in a swap with Poland that saw a total of 10 people freed as the authoritari...
April 28, 2026 International News
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's high court ruled Tuesday that spreadsheets of raw data associated with every ballot are public records, providing access to the “cast vote rec...
April 28, 2026 Pennsylvania News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began. NASA’s Artemis II capsule returned to Fl...
April 28, 2026 National News
Please fasten your seat belt, make sure your tray table is in an upright and locked position, and prepare for delivery. A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlan...
April 28, 2026 National News
Sports
Ava Kamenski won two individual events (100-meter hurdles, 300 hurdles) and was part of two relay victories, helping Karns City’s girls track and field team to its fourth...
April 28, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — Brendan Eicher is on a hot streak that he hopes can continue through the rest of the season. Butler’s junior distance runner ran a 4:16.38 in the boys 1,600-...
April 28, 2026 Sports
JACKSON TWP — Ryan Rebholz allowed just two hits and shut Norwin out over 5.2 innings on the mound during last year’s WPIAL Class 6A Baseball Championship game. He entere...
April 28, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — Seneca Valley’s Mason Fisher drilled Kyle Casteel’s first pitch of the game into the right-center field gap for a double Tuesday night at Pullman Park. Caste...
April 28, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Sometimes little things are the evidence of a bigger event. That was the case earlier this month when the Moraine Preservation Fund activated its osprey cam. The camera ...
April 28, 2026 Our Opinion
April 28, 2026 Cartoons
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evo...
April 28, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Bryan Vavro talks show business in Pittsburgh
April 28, 2026 Community
Karns City Area Jr./Sr. High School will have its prom on Friday, May 1, at Butler Country Club. The students will celebrate to the Hollywood-inspired theme, “Golden Age ...
April 28, 2026 Community
Greater Federation of Women’s Club Intermediate League of Butler will meet on Monday, May 11, at Christ Community Methodist Church, 205 N. Duffy Road, Butler Township. M...
April 28, 2026 Community
Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams toured the St. Barnabas campus April 29, 2010, spreading joy while proving that friendship, not laughter, really is the best medicine. Adams, the...
April 28, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Robin Jewart who passed way one year ago today. One Year Without You The calendar turns, yet the air still holds your voice - soft as the...
April 29, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Michael B. Jordan voicing a tiny woodland creature who switches bodies with a majestic bird in the animated movie “Swapped” and Kacey Musgraves’ seventh studio album, “Dr...
April 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Taylor Swift has filed to trademark two voice clips and an image of her in concert in an apparent attempt to shore up her identity against AI incursions. Her company, TAS...
April 28, 2026 People
Other
Jesus said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, b...
April 29, 2026 Verse of the Day
With high school graduations on the horizon, for many students, it’s time for them and their families to look ahead to the next level of their education journey. From st...
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
Changes introduced under ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
Perfect homework and blank stares lead to changes
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
As college enrollment among 18-year-olds continues to decline, higher education institutions in the county are being pushed to rethink how they operate. Slippery Rock Un...
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
File the FAFSA • File on Oct. 1, the day the Federal Application for Student Aid opens. The sooner you file, the longer you have to plan. Some programs fund on a first-co...
April 28, 2026 Special Sections
April 28, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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