The Butler Area School Board has approved a proposed final budget for next school year that does not include a tax increase, but one could be added before the final vote next month. The late... Read more

VA Butler Healthcare will have a new interim director starting next week. Alan Petrazzi will take over for Patricia O’Kane, who was appointed to the job in January when previous director Dav... Read more

The Butler School District will offer full-day kindergarten beginning this fall. The school board voted unanimously to approve the move at Monday’s meeting. Butler’s superintendent proposed... Read more

Firefighters from eight departments battled a house fire on Monday in Karns City that ended up destroying at least half of a duplex. The fire started about 12:30 p.m. at a home on Main Stree... Read more

The woman accused of killing her boyfriend by dragging him behind her van during a domestic dispute was in court Friday. Investigators said 28-year-old Jessica Royall of Cranberry Township w... Read more

The deadline for applying for and submitting absentee ballots for the May 15 primary election is tomorrow. Jonathan Marks- commissioner of the bureau of commissions, elections and legislatio... Read more

Thousands of runners participated in the 2018 Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon on Sunday. It was the 10th anniversary of the event. Fikadu Girma Teferi, 24, of Ethiopia was the firs... Read more

A riding lawn mower is thought to have started a fire that destroyed a garage in Center Township over the weekend. Assistant Chief of the Unionville Volunteer Fire Department Mike Pflugh sai... Read more

A northern Butler County man was badly burned on Saturday by an explosion in his driveway. Emergency responders were sent to 58-year-old Thomas Pringle’s home on Hilliard Road in Washington... Read more