FRANKLIN TWP — Long before students and professors make their way to campus at Butler County Community College, Brian Opitz has already been up and at it, fixin...
Stainton Forbes and Andrew Gettinger were the engine of Butler’s boys basketball team over the past two seasons. With the former landing on Slippery Rock Univer...
Teachers at Broad Street Elementary School were treated to pizza and cupcakes for lunch Tuesday, May 5, as a show of gratitude for their hard work during teache...
ADAMS TWP ― Mars Area School District residents will not see their taxes go up for the first time in three years.
The district’s board will move forward with a...
WEST MIFFLIN — Winning a WPIAL team track championship is not easy.
It certainly didn’t figure to be for Butler’s boys Tuesday, but the Golden Tornado combined ...
Chamber honors longtime BC3 employee Opitz
Chamber honors longtim...
Butler basketball star Stainton Forbes chooses to continue career at Slippery Ro...
Butler basketball star...
Butler teacher surprised on anniversary of kidney donation
Butler teacher surpris...
Mars Area approves budget with no millage increase
Mars Area approves bud...
In claiming 12th WPIAL team track and field title, Butler boys’ ‘firepower’ come...
A GoFundMe has been set up for a 96-year-old woman and her adult son who lost their home in a fire Tuesday morning, May 5, in Summit Township.
Crews battled a trailer fir...
A Callery man is accused of having multiple controlled substances and more than $100,000 in his home.
Robert Girling Ryberg Jr., 76, was charged Saturday, May 2, by Butle...
Trick-or-treat will come a little early this year for residents of Evans City.
Borough council has decided to move the tradition to the 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. window on Hallow...
A representative of Verizon said prior service disruptions that affected customers should be fixed.
“The fiber cuts that impacted wireless service for some customers in W...
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...
BUTLER TWP — Township residents will have their trash services covered by their current vendor from 2027 through 2030.
Butler Township commissioners voted unanimously Mon...
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...
Although it sometimes seems like the news is all politics all the time, residents of Butler County should not ignore the upcoming May 19 primary elect...
Few dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this ...
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...
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 tha...
Butler County-based Concordia Lutheran Ministries, a senior residential services provider, has completed its acquisition of six former SpiriTrust Luth...
Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell Monday as Ryan Cohen’s GameStop pursues an about $56 billion takeover of the company, seeing it as ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturda...
SEATTLE — The collapse of the U.S.-based Spirit Airlines may mark the end of an era for travelers with a certain financial sensibility.
But if you’v...
“Deception and Murder at Rosebud” — a murder mystery production that is written, produced and performed by members of the Passavant Community in Zelienople — offers both ...
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...
“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...
Twenty years after the original, the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Driven largely by women, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” ...
There are some early cues that the new animated “Animal Farm” is not your grandmother’s “Animal Farm.” Like when one critter asks, “What's up?” and another says, “Totally...
Fashion trends are notoriously fickle but some things, like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, never go out of style.
So you can see why making “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” t...
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...
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 ...
An 18-hole round of golf works up an appetite.
Some of Butler County’s golf courses are known for more than just the quality of their greens, too, and offer different foo...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
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 ...
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...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
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...
