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A Petrolia man has been jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail after being charged with strangling and assault his former girlfriend in her home Thursday morning.
State police c...
September 20, 2024
Crime & Courts
MIDDLESEX TWP — The board of supervisors approved a series of alterations to the township’s zoning ordinance at its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening, Sept. 18.
This c...
September 19, 2024
Government
BUTLER TWP — Butler County Community College’s interim president called the state budget provisions, which include a 6% increase to community college operating funds, dua...
September 19, 2024
Local News
MIDDLESEX TWP — Middlesex Crossing, already home to a dentist’s office, an American Natural convenience store, an Anytime Fitness, and a Butler Brew Works location, is on...
September 19, 2024
Government
The Butler County Democratic Committee will be hosting their annual fundraising dinner at the Butler Country Club on Thursday, Sept. 26.
Guests will include U.S. Sen. Jo...
September 19, 2024
Government
Local News
A Butler woman has rejected an offer to serve between 9 to 20 years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to the June 2020 fatal stabbing of her boyfriend in their ci...
September 18, 2024
Crime & Courts
A 22-year-old Chicora man is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and offering another 14-year-old girl marijuana in exchange for sex.
Kameron C. Myers was charged in one...
September 18, 2024
Crime & Courts
It’s not often hurricanes strike Western Pennsylvania. When they do, residents remember them for a long time.
Sept. 17 marks the 20-year anniversary of the day when Hurr...
September 18, 2024
Local News
The Butler County Farm Bureau is holding its annual fall meeting Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Prospect Volunteer Fire Department hall.
The evening begins with social hour at...
September 18, 2024
Agriculture
Although the powerful remnants of Hurricane Ivan in September 2004 were expected in Butler County, I think the level of flooding produced by the torrential rains caught m...
September 18, 2024
Local News
Sports
Mars claimed its first-ever state championship in girls soccer in 2011, but the feat w...
CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic’s girls volleyball team is accustomed to deep runs in the W...
September 19, 2024
The following are Butler County’s high school football statistical leaders entering Week 5...
September 19, 2024
Here are the standings and upcoming games for each Butler County team in the WPIAL, Distri...
September 19, 2024
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted Wednesday, Sept. 18, to add hi...
September 18, 2024
Community
MARS — The Mars Area Public Library has a trick that can help reluctant and slower readers...
After two years, the borough of Mars has a new town clock on its streets, thanks to a gene...
September 17, 2024
Zelienople will host its first “Mini Makers Market” on Thursday, Sept. 19, as part of the ...
September 17, 2024
The Seneca Valley Senior High 2023-24 Homecoming king and queen will be named at 6:30 p.m....
September 16, 2024
Seats are available on comfortable coach buses that will leave four churches in the early ...
September 16, 2024
Special Sections
BUTLER TWP — The Tesla BioHealing Wellness Hotel & Resort on Route 8 is working to continue the tradition held by the former tenants, Days Inn, of off...
September 04, 2024
Special Sections
The day of your wedding is, to many, one of the most important days of your life.
Couples can spend years planning the event. The dress needs to be o...
September 04, 2024
Special Sections
NEW YORK — Attire, travel, food, liquor, flowers: There’s no end to expenses when it comes to traditional weddings.
Through time, though certainly no...
September 04, 2024
Special Sections
There are really four “Rs” to an elementary school year: reading, ’riting, ’rithmatic — and readying a child for the new semester.
Sarah Milford, a se...
August 07, 2024
Special Sections
It’s only August, but summer is already drawing to a close for county schoolchildren. They’ll be reporting back to class in a little over two weeks.
B...
August 07, 2024
Education
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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