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BC3 discontinues 32 programs after academic review
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See brackets for 2026 WPIAL girls soccer tournament: Butler, Freeport, Mars and more matchups
The postseason has arrived. The 2026 WPIAL Girls Soccer Championships kick off Saturday, Oct. 24, with the finals set to be held in two weeks. Districts 9 and 1...
See brackets for 2026 WPIAL boys soccer tournament: Freeport, Mars, Seneca Valley and other matchups
This is what it’s all led up to. The 2026 WPIAL Boys Soccer Championships kick off Thursday, Oct. 22, and Districts 9 and 10 will open their playoffs in short o...
Butler County man accused of threatening to blow up house
A Butler County man has been accused of threatening to blow up a house during an argument Wednesday, Oct. 21. Brian R. McKain, 68, of Center Township, was char...
Police: Tuesday presence on West Brady Street followed attempted traffic stop
The large police presence Tuesday night, Oct. 20, on West Brady Street in Butler resulted from a brief vehicle pursuit where the alleged perpetrator fled to a h...
BC3 discontinues 32 programs after academic review
BC3 discontinues 32 pr...
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See brackets for 2026 WPIAL boys soccer tournament: Freeport, Mars, Seneca Valle...
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Butler County man accused of threatening to blow up house
Butler County man accu...
Police: Tuesday presence on West Brady Street followed attempted traffic stop
Police: Tuesday presen...
Top Headlines
LANCASTER TWP — Children in Butler County have a new indoor play place to sample: Kidtopia on Perry Highway in Lancaster Township, which opened last month. At its monthly...
October 20, 2026 Business
A Butler woman is accused of sending sexually inappropriate photos and engaging in inappropriate acts with a 15 year old while the two were employed at a Cranberry Townsh...
October 21, 2026 Local News
A new law aiming to strengthen Pennsylvania’s consumer protections for telemarketers and robocalls took effect Monday. The new law, Act 47 of 2026, adds restrictions to m...
October 21, 2026 Local News
A seat on Zelienople Borough Council is vacant as Councilman Steve Schoppe recently stepped down from his role. Schoppe’s resignation was “reluctantly and unanimously” ac...
October 21, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK — A borough council meeting on Tuesday was canceled due to lack of a quorum. A majority of council members, or a quorum, must legally be present at the meet...
October 21, 2026 Local News
News
At least one person was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township, according...
October 21, 2026 Local News
PENN TWP — Township residents packed the municipal building on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to express their opposition to a proposed project planned to be constructed in an area ne...
October 21, 2026 Local News
The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday, Oct. 20, voted to request an increase in the rates U.S. Marshals Service pays to house and transport federal inmates being held...
October 21, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is repaving the Route 422 East to Kittanning ramp off Route 8 in Butler and Center townships Friday, Oct. 23. The ramp will be ...
October 20, 2026 Local News
As part of federal efforts to modernize facilities, VA Butler Healthcare received funding for nonrecurring maintenance projects happening at the end of this year. This i...
October 20, 2026 Local News
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Community
Clarinetist Janice Coppola and the KleZletic Klezmer Band will liven Saxonburg Memorial Ch...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
The YMCA is hosting its annual Turkey Trot Nov. 7 in Downtown Butler, with the start and f...
October 21, 2026
PENN TWP — The township is sending a collection of recently-discovered artifacts from Renf...
October 21, 2026
The Jackson Community Foundation will host the Jackson Township Trunk or Treat Saturday, O...
October 20, 2026
The Buttercup Garden Club is looking for more women who enjoy gardening, socializing, loca...
October 20, 2026
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Sports
NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday he has a high comfort level in th...
 
BUTLER TWP — Jacob Prex had to take his lumps from his older siblings. “They would make me...
October 21, 2026
Boys Karns City Soccer: Trevor Rumbaugh, senior Highlight: Scored three goals...
October 21, 2026
North Catholic senior Chris Faber closed his high school career Tuesday by earning a medal...
October 20, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Marquez Valdes-Scantling is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers s...
October 20, 2026
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Editorial
October 21, 2026 Cartoons
The Butler Education Association hosts a tailgate party food drive at a Butler Senior High School football game each year. A member of the union said ...
October 21, 2026 Our Opinion
Just three years after OpenAI said its models were good at grade-school math, the company announced they had solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize...
October 21, 2026 Other Voices
Butler Area School District responded to a threat on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with a modified perimeter lockdown. My understanding of this safety measure ...
October 17, 2026 Letters to the Editor
How dare President Donald Trump say a 250-day deployment for sailors and Marines aboard the USS Lincoln carrier group “is not nearly long enough.” I w...
October 17, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
Good Samaritan Hospice, a mission of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, is hosting a free holiday bereavement workshop from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 14. Th...
October 20, 2026 Business
Steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs, which has a plant in Butler Township, reported its third-quarter earnings results for the period ended Sept. 30. Thir...
October 20, 2026 Local News
Allegheny Health Network’s Department of OB/GYN opened a specialized care clinic for postpartum patients at West Penn Hospital in Allegheny County. Th...
October 20, 2026 Local News
The Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce and Butler County Chamber of Commerce are hosting a meet and greet event with state and local offici...
October 20, 2026 Local News
The United States has accumulated more than $40 trillion in national debt. That’s a number so large it’s difficult to comprehend, let alone imagine pa...
October 20, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
The Yoga House is a new yoga studio in Butler. It will have an open house Sunday, Oct. 25. The open house takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 113 S. McKean St. i...
October 21, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor in TV and film who often played authority figures but was equally skilled at comedy, notably playing a sad-sack prod...
October 20, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
North American movie theaters were flooded with new films this weekend, including a video game reboot, a big budget survival thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation. While...
October 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com. And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
October 15, 2026 Reviews
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
October 15, 2026 Reviews
When you gaze at the Butler night sky, especially in the dark countryside, you can see all kinds of “people and creatures” up there. Right now, there’s a disgraced hunte...
October 15, 2026 Community
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Special Sections
Butler County’s law enforcement Butler County Sheriff Telephone: 724-284-5245 Sheriff: Mike Slupe Pennsylvania State Police — Troop D Address: 200 Barra...
October 21, 2026 Special Sections
For some individuals, an encounter with a police officer can be terrifying or uncomfortable even if they aren’t in trouble with the law. This is why the Cranberry Townsh...
October 21, 2026 Special Sections
It’s not a new trend. Anyone paying attention to things happening with fire departments and EMS agencies will tell you those involved have been raising alarms for years ...
October 21, 2026 Special Sections
This year’s Zelienople Fall Festival brought together the community for an evening of activities Friday. The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and fr...
October 10, 2026 Local News
When neighbors walk past Deb West’s patio home in the Meeder neighborhood in Cranberry Township, her front porch catches their attention. Filled with colorful seasonal fl...
October 07, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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