DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throw...
Knoch boys, Karns City girls, Slippery Rock girls and North Catholic girls will play host in the first round of the PIAA Basketball Championships.
The PIAA rele...
SAXONBURG — Despite being officially billed as a “winter festival,” Saxonburg’s Saturday festival saw temperatures of 55 degrees with a sunny sky and thousands ...
CLARION — Three teams have tried to take down this iteration of the Karns City girls basketball dynasty.
All have failed.
The Gremlins, led by seniors Naomi Ven...
Butler’s Santino Sloboda won his third straight PIAA Class 3A Boys Individual Wrestling West Regional tournament title Saturday at Canon-McMillan High School.
T...
Iran confirms supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in joint U.S. Israeli...
Iran confirms supreme ...
2026 PIAA boys and girls basketball brackets released: See where Karns City, Kno...
2026 PIAA boys and gir...
Saxonburg Winter Festival brings community warmth
Saxonburg Winter Festi...
Karns City girls basketball completes District 9 championship four-peat with rou...
Karns City girls baske...
PIAA wrestling regionals: Butler’s Sloboda and Stoner, Slippery Rock’s Turbervil...
As Cranberry Township wraps up a slate of upgrades and new amenities, officials are already setting their sights on the next wave of investments.
A step toward those new ...
Butler County Community College will have a new service provider to operate its preschool program starting this fall.
Lifesteps — a nonprofit organization that assists c...
JACKSON TWP — A new investment in southern Butler County aims to cut wait times and accelerate prescription delivery for local patients.
Allegheny Health Network official...
The City of Butler is close to launching a major update to its online services once some final hurdles are resolved.
Councilman Troy Douthett said at a city council meeti...
ZELIENOPLE — Guests at Woods Lane & Co. got to enjoy a bite of the Mediterranean with no flights needed on Thursday, Feb. 26.
A Taste of the Mediterranean workshop, taugh...
I’ve lost track of the times my friends and family members have questioned my decisions to go into the news business.
They’ve advocated that I apply for other roles, the ...
A Cranberry Township man has been charged with aggravated assault of an unborn child.
Cranberry Township police charged Salvador Perez, 41, with felony aggravated assaul...
A judge on Friday authorized Slippery Rock Mayor Jondavid Longo’s attorney to file an amended complaint in a lawsuit against attorney Jennifer Gilliland Vanasdale.
The s...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
Feb. 12 — Kellie Lynn Horne, 41, of Butler, was charged with one misdemean...
With blighted and vacant property identified as a major issue for the City of Butler, officials discussed the possibility of establishing a land bank to combat it.
Mayor ...
Tax season can be an unsettling time for some folks. But this year, the new Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC) law, which I proudly helped to craft last...
In a letter published Feb. 7, (“Trump making good on campaign promise,” Page A4) Carl Jones claims that U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s hein...
How soon will the government pass a law to ban our youth from social media apps and the spam merchants of smut and gore? Social media is everywhere. P...
The MAGA followers loved saying “Sleepy Joe.” But I'm not hearing a peep from them about how the current occupant of the White House is seemingly slee...
Students from nine Pittsburgh area school districts gathered at the Westinghouse Global Headquarters in Cranberry Township on Friday to compete in the...
The FirstEnergy Foundation, the charity arm of utility company FirstEnergy, plans to provide a $10,000 grant to Butler County Community College.
The f...
Independence Health System has added Virginia Singla to the cardiology team at Butler Memorial Hospital, where she will provide specialized care in ca...
NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery has determined that Paramount’s latest takeover offer is superior to the streaming and studio agreement it struck wi...
Early in “Scream 7,” in one of those blasts of the franchise's signature, self-mocking irony, Neve Campbell is taunted for sitting out “Scream VI.”
“It's not the same wi...
LOS ANGELES — Benson Lu’s life revolves around Pokémon.
The 26-year-old has played the mobile game Pokémon Go every day for a decade, watches the animated show every wee...
If Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s “Man on the Run” is ...
The big show astronomically in March is another total lunar eclipse, more popularly known as a blood moon, the last one we’ll have for a while. It’ll happen this coming T...
NEW YORK — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n' roll and led to a seco...
At Passavant Community in Zelienople, the beauty of kindness arrives on four wheels. Once a month, a pushcart filled with fresh-cut flowers donated by Trader Joe’s makes...
Cranking up the volume in your car may sound harmless and fun, but it could lead to hearing problems in your older years -- and possibly even increase your risk of dement...
WASHINGTON — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than...
BUTLER TWP — The dance floor may be new for the group of seniors who get together every Monday to line dance together, but the steps remain the same.
The senior line danc...
BROOKLYN, Ill. — Sr. Julia Huiskamp, all 4 feet and 10 inches of her, oversees everything at the Thomas Terry Community Center: the food pantry, the child care, the fundr...
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...
