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NFL Draft 2026: Live coverage from Day 1 in Pittsburgh, Butler County
The 2026 NFL Draft is underway. The Butler County community is waiting for the Steelers’ turn to arrive. Some fans have traveled to Pittsburgh. Others are cele...
SRU unveils Haverlack College of Business
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University on Thursday unveiled the Haverlack College of Business. The college was made possible by a $5 million gift — the larges...
Butler Memorial Hospital techs vote to authorize possible strike
Nine months after beginning negotiations for their first union contract, 92% of Butler Memorial Hospital’s techs voted to authorize a potential strike Thursday ...
Penn Theater brings NFL Draft experience to Butler’s Main Street
While hundreds of thousands converged upon Pittsburgh’s city center for the first night of the NFL draft, a Butler County football icon brought a piece of the d...
Football fans board Butler Transit Authority bus headed to NFL draft
JACKSON TWP — A sea of football jerseys flooded the Route 528 Park and Ride on Thursday morning, April 23, as fans boarded Butler Transit Authority buses to the...
NFL Draft 2026: Live coverage from Day 1 in Pittsburgh, Butler County
NFL Draft 2026: Live c...
SRU unveils Haverlack College of Business
SRU unveils Haverlack ...
Butler Memorial Hospital techs vote to authorize possible strike
Butler Memorial Hospit...
Penn Theater brings NFL Draft experience to Butler’s Main Street
Penn Theater brings NF...
Football fans board Butler Transit Authority bus headed to NFL draft
Football fans board Bu...
Top Headlines
The City of Butler is slated to approve a new way to combat blight and direct development in its neighborhoods next month. Butler City Council voted unanimously at a meet...
April 24, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Sunny skies, varied activities and excited fans made Thursday, April 23, a perfect day to celebrate the unofficial start of the next NFL season. Football fan...
April 23, 2026 Local News
While hundreds of thousands converged upon Pittsburgh’s city center for the first night of the NFL draft, a Butler County football icon brought a piece of the draft exper...
April 23, 2026 Professional
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, has released his list of 2027 fiscal year Community Project Funding grant program requests for projects within the 16th Congressional Distri...
April 24, 2026 Local News
A Butler County man took his spin at Wheel of Fortune on Thursday evening, April 23, and found himself outplaying the competition. Drew Rummel, of Sarver, managed to take...
April 23, 2026
News
CRANBERRY TWP — Steelers black and gold took over Ehrman Crest Elementary School as middle and elementary school students supported their favorite teams during NFL draft ...
April 23, 2026 Local News
Unionville Road will close Monday, April 27, from Route 8 to Brown Road. The road is being closed so that Center Township can replace a culvert. ...
April 23, 2026 Local News
A new grant benefiting Butler Area School District, among others, is meant to help reduce gun violence and increase after-school initiatives for at-risk youth across the ...
April 23, 2026 Local News
Community Meals Ministries will have its annual gala and art show this weekend, April 25 and 26. The gala will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, at St. Michael the Archangel...
April 23, 2026 Local News
The Associated Artists of Butler County’s annual High School Art Exhibit is having its opening night reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Butler Art Center, 34...
April 23, 2026 Local News
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Community
Butler Senior High School will crown its prom king and queen the evening of Friday, May 1,...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Four Seneca Valley students recently won awards at the Family, Career and Community Leader...
April 23, 2026
We’re approaching another full moon this week on Friday to kick off May, but that’s just t...
April 23, 2026
BUTLER TWP — Pete DeSantis whittles wood with a knife for hours on end, but it doesn’t bot...
April 23, 2026
Credits long-distance girlfriend with survival
April 23, 2026
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Sports
BUTLER TWP — When Dakari Payne first leaped onto the WPIAL track and field scene, he was m...
 
Brock Dittman scattered six hits harmlessly, and the offense racked up 12 hits and 11 stea...
April 23, 2026
Butler will host WPIAL Track and Field Team Championships boys and girls semifinals at 3 p...
April 23, 2026
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders hope they have finally landed their franchise quar...
April 23, 2026
KARNS CITY — After every game, Karns City senior baseball player Joey O’Donnell called his...
April 23, 2026
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Editorial
April 22, 2026 Cartoons
Jimmy Carter was president, the country was still riding the wave of the U.S. men’s hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice,” the original Pac-Man was gearing u...
April 22, 2026 Our Opinion
April 24 is Arbor Day, when Americans will gather to plant trees on city streets, in parks and within other open spaces. But this year, as wildfires, ...
April 22, 2026 Other Voices
April 21, 2026 Cartoons
Hats off to Miss Butler County Annie Rieg for using her public appearances to push for more organ and tissue donations. At a recent appearance at Butl...
April 21, 2026 Our Opinion
Business
If you've missed rooting around in a cereal box for a toy, you're in luck. WK Kellogg Co. said Thursday it's including toys with some of its breakfast...
April 23, 2026 Business
Independence Health System will welcome 16 new residents to its family medicine residency programs in Butler, Clarion and Latrobe on July 1. Those joi...
April 23, 2026 Business
LAS VEGA — The German company that owns Lufthansa Airlines and other European carriers said Tuesday that it would cut 20,000 short-haul flights throu...
April 23, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the socia...
April 23, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits inched up last week but remains within the historically healthy range of recent ...
April 23, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Birders will guide a search of Moraine State Park for early season migrants from sparrows, warblers, tanagers, thrushes, kinglets, gulls, terns, loons, grebes, cormorants...
April 23, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Dave Mason — the co-founder of the psychedelic British band Traffic, songwriter behind classic rock hits “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe,” and Rock & Ro...
April 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz are sparking engagement rumors, with the actress-director spotted multiple times rocking a massive diamond on her left ring finger. The pop s...
April 22, 2026 People
NEW YORK — Alan Osmond, the eldest member of the chart-topping family act The Osmonds, died Monday after decades with multiple sclerosis. He was 76. According to a family...
April 21, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Actor Patrick Muldoon, known for a host of series and films from “Melrose Place” and “Days of Our Lives,” to “Starship Troopers,” died Sunday. He was 57. Muldoon’s manage...
April 20, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Cher, who once said she longed to be a grandmother, has reportedly gotten her wish after learning last year that her troubled son, Elijah Blue Allman, secretly became a f...
April 20, 2026 People
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Special Sections
While spring marks the return of warmer weather in Western Pennsylvania, it also brings back the unmistakable sights and sounds of roadwork — including fresh surface tre...
April 21, 2026 Special Sections
While the weather is becoming milder as Butler County enters spring, winter can leave a lasting impact on vehicles. Nate Miller, owner of Randy and Bob’s Auto Body, said ...
April 20, 2026 Special Sections
Butler County has an unusually high number of golf courses. That’s a good thing, said Experience Butler County president Amy Pack. There is something for all kinds of gol...
April 19, 2026 Sports
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
April 14, 2026 Special Sections
Vendors and exhibitors scheduled to appear at this year’s Butler County Home Show include: Agway Water Treatment of Western PA Alex Restoration & Masonry Repairs ARK Base...
April 08, 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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