The Butler Area School Board will not petition the state in order to raise taxes above the state index for the upcoming school year. The board was in unanimous agreement Monday night in favo... Read more
A former Cranberry Township man charged with killing a University of Pittsburgh student last year will stand trial. A judge made that decision on Friday. 21-year-old Matthew Darby, a Seneca... Read more
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s current congressional maps are unconstitutional. The decision comes following a years-long argument that the maps were drawn to b... Read more
Fog was a concern Monday morning, particularly dense in areas in northern Butler County. But, firefighters don’t believe fog was the cause of a crash just north of the county line in Venango... Read more
There have been several local breweries popping up around Butler County in the last few years and the Butler County Tourism Bureau wants to make sure you don’t miss any. The bureau has devel... Read more
Icy roads are likely to blame for two crashes Sunday morning in Connoquenessing. Both crashes happened on Whitestown Road within an hour of each other. According to State Police, the first c... Read more
VA Butler Healthcare’s new chief executive has been on the job for only a couple weeks. However, she says Butler has made a big impression on her. “I love it. I love everybody who I have met... Read more
UPDATE (2PM Monday): It appears as though a nearly three day shutdown of the federal government has ended after an agreement in the U.S. Senate. A stopgap spending measure received the nece... Read more
It’s a wet, but unseasonably warm, Monday in western Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service (NWS) expects rain showers off and on throughout the day with cloudy skies. There is a lot of... Read more
A one vehicle crash in Connoquenessing Township has shut down a portion of a local road. Calls came into the Butler County 911 Center just after 9:30am for a car that crashed into a tree on... Read more
