The Mars Area School Board does not anticipate the need to raise taxes in order to meet their 2019-20 school year budget. This year’s general fund budget of $52.2 million is about $2.3 milli... Read more
Butler County Community College is getting ready to graduate its largest class of the century. BC3’s Class of 2019 will include 599 graduates, including 32 student-veterans. The oldest gradu... Read more
The South Butler School Board has approved a preliminary budget for the 2019-20 school year with no tax increase, but no tax decrease either. During a school board meeting Wednesday night, o... Read more
A Butler County couple is now facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly abandoning six cats in woods behind their home in Cabot. Kevin Delehanty of Cranberry Township and his girlfriend Ta... Read more
Funeral services will be held Wednesday for a Butler native and her husband who died in a small plane crash last week in central Pennsylvania. Valerie Bernardo, 54, and Joseph Bernardo, 55,... Read more
Work for next year’s census will begin soon and workers are needed to help with getting the most accurate count possible. A representative from the U.S. Census Bureau spoke to Butler City Co... Read more
A project to improve the sidewalks at the Tier Parking Garage in downtown Butler is moving forward. A contract for just over $28,000 from the parking budget has been awarded by Butler City C... Read more
A local legislator has introduced a bill that would make sexual extortion against the law. State Representative Tedd Nesbit (R-Butler, Mercer) says House Bill 1402 would make it illegal to c... Read more
Two Butler County residents are among the latest graduating cadet class from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Sean Gercken and Douglas Orloski Jr. are among the 104 new troopers who re... Read more
The City of Butler is once again considering the possibility of selling or leasing their parking to a third party company. Butler City Council voted unanimously during a meeting Tuesday to h... Read more