Nearly 3,000 Butler County residents remain without power as of 3:30 p.m. Friday following Thursday night’s strong storms. The first severe thunderstorm hit the downtown Butler area shortly... Read more
The Mars Area School District is pushing back the first day students will be in class. At a special meeting on Thursday, the board voted to make Tuesday, September 8th the first day of schoo... Read more
State police are asking for help after someone stole a gun and ammo from a Summit Township apartment. Police say it happened yesterday around 6 p.m. in the 300 block of Mitchell Hill Road. I... Read more
The City of Butler has entered into an agreement with a company to provide a comprehensive evaluation of all the sidewalks in the city to identify ones that violate the city’s regulations. A... Read more
About 100 students at Westminster College are being asked to quarantine after a potential exposure to COVID-19. The school made the announcement Friday afternoon, saying that the quarantine... Read more
There were three new cases of COVID-19 for Butler County reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday. There were also 120 negative test results reported, giving the most re... Read more
Police are looking for the people responsible for stealing political signs in neighboring Mercer County. According to Grove City Police, a resident in the 400 block of Liberty Street informe... Read more
–By Bill Foley, BC3 Coordinator of News and Media Content They crawled in dirt, were carried on backs or pushed in wheelbarrows toward the clinics distributing free canes, crutches, wa... Read more
One person suffered minor injuries after their car crashed into a building Monday morning in Butler Township. It happened around 10:45 a.m. at the Benbrook Medical Center II building on Tech... Read more
Over 50 percent of people in Pennsylvania now have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. According to Department of Health data that means over 5.4 million Pennsylvanians have... Read more
The Connoquenessing Watershed Alliance will be holding an information meeting tomorrow. The group will be meeting at Stick City Brewing in Mars to discuss their upcoming summer projects at A... Read more
There were 78 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death for Butler County over the weekend. That now brings the death toll to 406 for the county according to the Department of Health. L... Read more
The battle between Governor Tom Wolf and Senate Republicans continues to escalate over the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Wolf withdrew his nominees to seven cabinet positions last week... Read more