Several thousand residents in Butler County are still without power following the winter storm last Thursday. West Penn Power was still reporting over 3,000 outages in the county on Monday a... Read more
Central Electric Cooperative is continuing to restore power to approximately 10,000 customers who were without service as of Sunday morning. Officials say that six outside crews from other P... Read more
Warming centers continue to operate this weekend as residents throughout the county are without power. A current list of warming centers with overnight coverage include: The Butler Middle S... Read more
There are still more than 20,000 West Penn Power customers without power on Suday. “It’s hard to follow the bouncing ball exactly, because we still are getting new outages. Trees are continu... Read more
Western Pennsylvania is not immune to winter storms. Why was Thursday’s event different than others? “Our meteorologist described it as ‘death by a million cuts.’ If this type of storm would... Read more
More than 8,000 Central Electric Cooperative customers in Butler County are still in the dark. That’s more than 85 percent of all of their customers in Butler. CEC’s Ken Maleski says power a... Read more
Some people have turned to a generator to help them heat their homes during this extended power outage. West Penn Power reminds people to always run the generator outside and far away from w... Read more
It’s now been more than 24 hours for some- and longer for others- since they’ve had power. For many, that means no heat. There are still about 30,000 Butler County residents without power, a... Read more
Widespread power outages have plagued residents across Butler County, and many may not see their power return until Sunday evening. Crews- from both West Penn Power and Central Electric- hav... Read more
The widespread power outages affecting thousands of residents in Butler County and beyond is also impacting the Butler Health System. The Crossroads Campus, Benbrook Campus and Chicora locat... Read more