Butler Memorial Hospital and the union representing 235 medical technicians exchanged proposals in their contract negotiations Monday, May 11, as the union’s pl...
Attorney says meeting in violation of Sunshine Act
HARRISVILLE — While business seemed to be as usual during the borough council meeting Monday, May 11, the cha...
Freeport baseball has had the kind of season that has the Yellowjackets' faithful anxious to see what the team is capable of in the playoffs.
The 2026 campa...
Knoch baseball coach John Negley described Hunter Lang as “a quiet kid. He doesn’t have much to say.”
True to that reputation, Lang let his pitching do the talk...
CHERRY TWP — Taxpayers in the Moniteau School District may have to pay slightly more to send their children to school next year.
The nine-member school board ap...
Hospital, union exchange contract proposals after union threatens strike
Hospital, union exchan...
Residents, nonresidents rally in support of Harrisville councilwoman
Residents, nonresident...
The 2 aces leading nearly perfect Freeport baseball into WPIAL Class 3A playoffs
The 2 aces leading nea...
WPIAL baseball: Knoch’s Hunter Lang slams door on Blackhawk in playoff opener
WPIAL baseball: Knoch’...
Moniteau proposes 2026-27 budget with 4-mill tax hike
SLIPPERY ROCK – The Slippery Rock Area school board unveiled a preliminary 2026-27 budget with a deficit of around $430,000 at a Monday, May 11, meeting.
The preliminary...
A New Kensington man is accused of a fraudulent check scheme that affected multiple auto retailers in Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties, according to charges fi...
Just over a month before proms, wedding season and Mother’s Day — a busy time of the year for a florist — Misty Evans found herself without a physical location and cooler...
JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley school board voted 5-3 to update the district’s graduation requirements in compliance with Pennsylvania law during its meeting Monday, May...
An 18-year-old woman had a fraudulent tax return filed using her name and Social Security number in Bradys Bend Township in Armstrong County, state police in Kittanning s...
A Pittsburgh man is accused of failing to return a vehicle rented from a woman in Cranberry Township.
Steven Michael Jaras, 40, was charged Friday, May 8, by Cranberry T...
A Butler man is accused of assaulting a nurse at Independence Health System’s Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler Township, and threatening people with a knife at Terrace ...
A trail of suspected crack cocaine from a bedroom with a 10-year-old girl in it to the bathroom in a Butler home led police to file charges against a Williamsport man.
T...
‘Run Like a Mother’ provides Mother’s Day activity at Moraine park
MUDDY CREEK TWP — While some mothers spent the early morning of Mother’s Day getting breakfast in bed, ...
More than 1,600 students of Slippery Rock University’s Class of Spring 2026 were honored over four commencement ceremonies on May 8 and 9.
Twenty of the graduates were me...
Not all victories are won on the playing field. Sometimes the winners can be found on the sidelines.
The Mars Area High School mascot, the Fightin’ Pl...
The sharp rise in gasoline prices caused by the Iran war has led to bipartisan calls, and in some cases action, to reduce U.S. gas taxes. At least thr...
I find it incredible that my tax dollars for education are being used to teach kids how to make graffiti. They cannot keep the kids engaged with worth...
PHILADELPHIA — The inside job began sometime after midnight at the factory in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood where the work never stopped.
The trad...
HONG KONG — China’s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from hig...
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian Gulf, eating into the very buffer that...
The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by...
Butler-based NexTier Bank and Ohio-based Riverside Bank of Dublin have entered into a definitive merger agreement, creating a financial organization w...
First United Methodist Church, 1802 N. Main Street Extension in Center Township, will hold its annual rummage sale May 15 and 16.
The sale will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 ...
Comedian Martin Short, still in the early stages of processing his daughter Katherine’s death in February, revealed some of the “nightmare” his family has endured since s...
LONDON — The Beatles are headed back to one of the band's most famous sites with a new fan experience in London.
Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by the Fab Four, an...
In a box office battle of the sequels, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” had the slight edge over “Mortal Kombat II” in North American theaters this weekend. According to studio ...
Maybe out of fear of putting filmgoers to sleep, the sheep has not been much of a mainstay at the movies.
There’s Charles Burnett’s lyrical classic “Killer of Sheep.” You...
Billie Eilish is levitating. Or so it seems. When the pop star first emerges on screen in the mouthful “Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D),” ...
Not all par-5s are unbeatable monsters. Some can give a golfer an opportunity to shake off a bad bogey the hole before or build momentum with an layup of a birdie opportu...
It’s been a series of Western Pennsylvania false springs of late, but golf weather is increasing in regularity in the Butler area.
And that means one thing: time to get o...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
