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Central Electric Cooperative is encouraging residents to conserve energy Monday, July 8 during peak hours of electricity demand to help stabilize future power costs.
The ...
July 08, 2024
Local News
Heat, sunshine contribute to higher ozone levels
July 08, 2024
Local News
The Big Butler Fair concluded Saturday, July 6, marking the end of the annual festival that draws in thousands of visitors from around the county and beyond the state’s b...
July 07, 2024
Local News
County leaders speak on sustainability amid population growth
July 06, 2024
Local News
The state Department of Transportation is planning maintenance work in the county this week.
The work includes shoulder cutting on Route 8 in Slippery Rock and Mercer tow...
July 05, 2024
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U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, will host a telephone town hall regarding important benefits and issues for military veterans, active-duty service members and their familie...
July 05, 2024
Local News
Butler Memorial Hospital was again recognized as a primary stroke center by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care.
To achieve that designation, hospitals must demo...
July 05, 2024
Health
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, has co-sponsored two pieces of legislation — the Uproot Rioting International Students Engaged in Radical Subversion Act, which would deport...
July 05, 2024
Government
U.S. Mike Kelly, R-16th, joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduce the Securing America’s Titanium Manufacturing Act, a bill to temporarily waive the 15% tariff...
July 05, 2024
Local News
MARS — The Fourth of July is a day for people to celebrate the USA, but for the people who are part of the holiday’s entertainment, it’s also a time to make other people ...
July 04, 2024
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Sports
Dakari Payne's focus entering his sophomore season on Seneca Valley's track and field ...
Playing professional baseball was never a pipe dream for JJ Wetherholt.
“I thought I could...
July 03, 2024
The 2024 PIAA football season is 53 days away.
That means a little more than a month unti...
July 02, 2024
There’s a certain skill in authoring stories.
Maybe even more so in spinning them out of ...
July 01, 2024
Community
The familiar sight of towering oak trees lining the streets of neighborhoods and along pub...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mo...
July 06, 2024
The annual Big Butler Fair queen and her court were crowned at a pageant held June 12 at t...
July 05, 2024
What’s more American than a fireworks displays on the Fourth of July? But for some, these ...
July 03, 2024
CRANBERRY TWP — In the two years Gail Nagie has been a resident of Atria at Cranberry Wood...
July 02, 2024
Special Sections
Pets come in all shapes and sizes. For most Americans, however, the choice comes down to two: canine or feline.
According to the American Veterinary M...
June 25, 2024
Special Sections
Cranberry Veterinary Hospital has two black domestic shorthair office cats, named Bella and Raven. Bella, who is about 15 years old, has lived at the ...
June 24, 2024
Local News
The common insects found in Butler County yards, gardens and flower beds strike most people as creepy. They’ve got too many legs or waving antenna, or...
June 18, 2024
Special Sections
It’s springtime, and the residents of an older home, possibly with standing water or gutter issues, notice a number of long, straight winged bugs in a...
June 18, 2024
Special Sections
Summer time and the living is easy, just not for Butler County gardeners dealing with exploding populations of insect pests munching on their flower a...
June 18, 2024
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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
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