Crews are on the scene of a crash this morning in Summit Township. The accident happened on Chicora Road at the top of Lick Hill, near the intersection with Linwood Drive. Dispatchers say tw... Read more

Turnpike officials are asking drivers to be aware of a possible dog on the loose in Cranberry Township. A brown dog with an orange collar was found running loose Monday morning on the Turnpi... Read more

Senator Bob Casey has introduced new legislation to “crack down” on price gouging. According to data compiled by Senator Casey’s “Greedflation series” from July 2020 through July 2022 inflat... Read more

Penn State Extension is offering an online program later this week about the impact of climate change on ecosystems. A 75 minute webinar titled “Harnessing Photosynthesis for a Carbon Negati... Read more

Local residents are invited out to an activity at Moraine State Park this week to enjoy the beauty of nature. On Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. park staff will lead visitors on a winte... Read more

The merger of Mars and NexTier Bank is now official. The closing happened last Friday and NexTier Bank spent this past weekend updating online and mobile banking for former Mars Bank custome... Read more

Many Butler Township residents continue to take advantage of the recycling of electronics and hazardous household waste. Butler Township Manager Tom Knights provided Township Commissioners w... Read more

A Seneca Valley student recently received racist text messages from teammates and now that child’s mother is speaking out. According to Amanda Latham, when her child could not attend an opti... Read more

The merger of Mars and NexTier Bank is now official. The closing happened last Friday and NexTier Bank spent this past weekend updating online and mobile banking for former Mars Bank custome... Read more

Gas prices have continued to increase both locally as well as across the western Pennsylvania region as a whole during the past week. According to AAA’s weekly gas price report, the average... Read more

The State’s Department of Environmental Protection says that after a year of sampling, there have been no traces of contamination in Western PA from the East Palestine train derailment. The... Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Pittsburgh Tuesday. She will be visiting the Larimer neighborhood to tout the Biden Administration’s clean water initiative. Harris is expected to arr... Read more

The South Butler Community Library is inviting parents and guardians to an important event planned for later this week. The Saxonburg Police Department will be providing child fingerprinting... Read more

State Police in Kittanning are looking for a missing teen that was last seen in Braddock. 15-year-old Londen Paris Nicole Clark is black, 5’4’, 100 pounds, has black hair, brown eyes, a slig... Read more

While vanity plates offer a chance for drivers to express themselves, not all of them will be given a stamp of approval by the Department of Transportation. New data from the department says... Read more

A longtime local restaurant was significantly damaged in an overnight fire. The call came into the Butler County 911 Center just after 2 a.m. Sunday for a fire at W. Rick’s Taproom and Grill... Read more

The founder of a longtime local funeral home has died. Ross Martin passed away last week at Concordia. Martin was a Butler native who founded began his career in mortuary science in the 1950... Read more

It’s Presidents’ Day, which means a number of offices are closed today. All Butler County, state, and federal offices and courts are closed in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. Banks... Read more

After a cyberattack on Pennsylvania’s state court agency, the court is saying they did not pay nor receive a ransom. The Associated Press is reporting that after a cyber-attack on the Common... Read more

County election officials are on the look for a polling location for a relatively new precinct. As part of the expansion of the number of precincts in the county, a third polling site was br... Read more