Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas will be at Slippery Rock University on Thursday. SRU students were polled earlier this semester on potential campus speakers and they selected Douglas as... Read more

Pennsylvania’s Republican House Speaker Mike Turzai will run for governor. 58-year-old Turzai told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he will seek the Republican nomination in May’s primar... Read more

The Butler Transit Authority has begun to enter into park and ride agreements in anticipation of starting a service to Pittsburgh. According to Executive Director John Paul, verbal agreement... Read more

Butler City Council is expected to postpone advertising to fill the position of fire chief until the new city administration takes offices in January. At Tuesday night’s Butler City Council... Read more

A Butler County man is accused of dragging an off-duty police officer with his car. Lee Rapsinski, 20, of Penn Township is in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail on felony assault and o... Read more

A Kittanning woman is in jail on charges she intentionally set a house on fire. Rebicca McElroy, 32, is in the Armstrong County Jail. The fire started Saturday afternoon at a home on Hard Ta... Read more

Winter road maintenance will look a little more “colorful” this year. PennDOT got local students involved in their first-ever “Paint The Plow” contest where student artists literally decorat... Read more

The Butler Area School District will borrow nearly $10 million to facilitate several capital projects. Several school board members pointed out the lack of a viable alternative as they voted... Read more

More water testing is needed at Butler Area School District’s Summit Township Elementary School before district administrators can begin planning to return students to the facility. The Butl... Read more