Several closures should be noted due to New Year’s Day today. Government offices at the local, county, state and federal level will be closed. This includes district courts and the Butler C... Read more
A winter weather advisory has been issued for tomorrow morning. The National Weather Service has put the advisory in effect from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. Freezing rain is expected, which cou... Read more
There were 170 new cases of COVID-19 and nine additional deaths for Butler County on Thursday. That now brings the county’s death toll to 195 since the beginning of the pandemic. There were... Read more
A child died in a house fire Thursday afternoon in the City of Butler. The fire broke out just before noon at a home on Knox Avenue on the city’s west end. Crews from Butler City quickly arr... Read more
Butler Health System’s chief medical officer says the vaccination of frontline healthcare workers has gone well so far. Dr. David Rottinghaus says that the delivery and distribution of the v... Read more
State police are asking people stay safe as they ring in the New Year. Even though places like bars and restaurants are closed, police are still expecting more people on the roads. “With COV... Read more
PennDOT Driver License and Photo Centers will be closing early for New Year’s Eve. All centers across the state will be closing at 12:15 p.m. and will be closed all day Friday. You can still... Read more
The state Department of Health is revealing their new tool to track vaccinations across Pennsylvania. Governor Tom Wolf spoke about the new vaccine dashboard yesterday. “Right now we are pri... Read more
The final round of county coronavirus relief funding for municipalities has been approved. 32 townships and boroughs are scheduled to receive their second CARES Act payments soon, after gett... Read more
December has become the deadliest month for the Butler Memorial Hospital due to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. As we close out December, our records indicate 37 people have died from COV... Read more