Butler Area School District administrators now have another option to try to give secondary students the best education possible. During a meeting Monday, the Butler School Board approved a... Read more
It was a big day on Wall Street Monday. Local financial advisor Howie Pentony explains. “We had a lot of enthusiasm. And when we have enthusiasm, markets tend to do pretty well,”... Read more
The Butler Area School District is putting a pause on athletics this week. District officials say they’re currently in between seasons and will not be having any offseason workouts this week... Read more
State police have safely located a missing person from Slippery Rock University. 21-year-old Gregory Jones of New Kensington had been missing since late October. State police say he was foun... Read more
67 new cases of COVID-19 were reported for Butler County Monday. That comes with 126 negative test results, giving the report a 34.7 percent positivity rate. As of Monday morning, Butler Mem... Read more
One man died in a motorcycle accident in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County over the weekend. It happened around 6 p.m. Saturday night on Ellwood Road just over a mile south of Hogue Ro... Read more
A Butler man died in a motorcycle accident yesterday in Armstrong County. State police say it happened just after 5 p.m. on Washington Street in Parker City when 46-year-old John Penrod lost... Read more
Crews are on the scene of a three vehicle crash Monday morning in Center Township. It happened around 11:15 a.m. in the northbound lane of Route 8 North near the southern entrance to the Cle... Read more
There were three new cases of COVID-19 for Butler County Monday. That continues the trend of low daily case counts coming off a weeked report of just six new cases. Statewide numbers continu... Read more
There were just six new cases of COVID-19 reported for Butler County this weekend. The death toll for the county has remained unchanged for more than two weeks, with 418 people having died d... Read more
A longtime business in the City’s Island neighborhood is set to close this week. Koeppen Alignment Services will be closing their doors after nearly 90 years in Butler. Owner Frank Kennedy h... Read more
Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge is leaving the hospital after suffering a stroke earlier this month. Ridge was discharged Sunday afternoon and will now undergo treatment at a rehab fa... Read more
Butler County Community College has announced the names of students who made the President’s List and Dean’s List for the Spring 2021 semester, as well as the names of those who have graduat... Read more