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Mars set to vote on 2025-26 final budget, millage increase
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area School District residents should know next Tuesday if their taxes will go up by another mill. The millage proposal will be voted on at ne...
Harmony man sentenced to prison in sexual assault that divided Jehovah’s Witnesses family
A Harmony man was sentenced to spend 14 to 34 years in prison for a crime that’s divided a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He remains adamant he is innocent. At...
Washington’s Trail 1753 receives new audio tour signs
A decade after it launched, an audio tour retracing George Washington’s historic 1753 journey through Butler County has been given a fresh look. Over that perio...
Evans City man charged in Zelienople assault
An Evans City man is accused of assaulting a man in a Zelienople alley in late May, according to police. Austin M. Sammons, 29, was charged with felony aggravat...
SV spending on district repairs this summer
Seneca Valley School District plans to spend several hundred thousand dollars on repairs and improvements around the district this summer. The district will spe...
Mars set to vote on 2025-26 final budget, millage increase
Mars set to vote on 20...
Harmony man sentenced to prison in sexual assault that divided Jehovah’s Witness...
Harmony man sentenced ...
Washington’s Trail 1753 receives new audio tour signs
Washington’s Trail 175...
Evans City man charged in Zelienople assault
Evans City man charged...
SV spending on district repairs this summer
SV spending on distric...
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Several Butler County EMS agencies were among the beneficiaries of an equipment and education grant awarded to Allegheny Health Network’s Wexford Hospital. The $182,500 g...
June 03, 2025 Local News
Butler ESU Team 400 will conduct training Tuesday evening, June 3, in Zelienople, according to the Zelienople Police Department. The training will be conducted between 5...
June 03, 2025 Local News
More than $27.6 million in unclaimed property is owed to Butler County residents, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced. The Treasury Department is encouraging p...
June 03, 2025 Local News
Cranberry Township’s annual Slow Down Campaign will run from Friday, June 6 to June 20 to promote road safety for pedestrians and drivers. The initiative, inspired by the...
June 03, 2025 Local News
A Jackson Township bakery will close its doors at the end of the month. After 14 years of whipping up award-winning sweet treats and designing made-to-order wedding cakes...
June 03, 2025 Local News
Local News
MARS — Borough council voted during their meeting on Monday night, June 2, to apply for a $50,000 Local Use Fund grant which it is hoping to use on paving projects. Accor...
June 03, 2025 Local News
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley’s school board is expected to pass an almost $180 million budget for the 2025-26 academic year next week. However, it will have slightly less ...
June 02, 2025 Local News
A tractor trailer reportedly rolled over Monday morning, June 2, on Interstate 79 in Allegheny County. Crews were dispatched around 7:50 a.m. to the incident on the Penn...
June 02, 2025 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Despite the unseasonably frigid air Saturday, May 31, plenty of warmth radiated from the crowd at North Boundary Park where students, families and communi...
June 02, 2025 Local News
EVANS CITY — Stars, stripes and small-town spirit were on display when members of the Harmony-Evans City Veterans of Foreign Wars post 499 hosted its third annual Family ...
June 01, 2025 Local News
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Sports
ADAMS TWP — Cohen Pollock had a fine sophomore season for Lower Dauphin’s boys lacrosse te...
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On the road against District 3 runner-up Central York, the Seneca Valley boys volleyball t...
June 03, 2025
The 2025 PIAA baseball championship quarterfinals will be held Thursday, and Seneca Valley...
June 03, 2025
Seneca Valley graduate Matt Vogt has qualified for the U.S. Open at Oakmont. A former all-...
June 03, 2025
The WPIAL recently released its All-District honorees for Class 3A boys volleyball and a n...
May 31, 2025
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Community
Dylan Weitzell, a senior at Mars Area High School, received an appointment to the Merchant...
 
Staff members of pools in Butler County prepared for the opening of the season by performi...
May 24, 2025
As summer returns, live music will be available at area parks and other venues. Here are a...
May 20, 2025
Alameda Park Soccer Shots — A youth soccer class takes place every Friday throughout t...
May 20, 2025
Camp Alameda Butler’s Alameda Park hosts Camp Alameda on weekdays from June 9 through Aug...
May 20, 2025
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Special Sections
Anticipation has been building in Mars for the 2025 Mars New Year, an event held every other year to coincide with the solar cycle of the planet. Plan...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
In Mars, the stars won’t be the only things lighting up the night sky. Hundreds of drones soon will rise in formation, turning the sky into a canvas o...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
Those who attended the previous Mars New Year celebration in 2023 may remember its official comic book, “Journey to Mars,” which told the tale of four...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
As NASA eyes its return to the moon and future missions to Mars, one of its most recognizable figures is returning too, this time, to the town of Mars...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
The public will have the opportunity to take part in the Mars New Year Festival like never before with an experience across the stars, spoken in music...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
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 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
The state of broadband across a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania, including Butler County, will be the topic of an event Thursday in Cran...
February 11, 2023 Local News
Part-time wedding photographer Margie Mackrell needs hours to upload wedding photos at her Muddy Creek Township home, an assignment that, by contrast,...
February 09, 2023 Local News

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