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12 top stories from Butler County in 2025
As 2025 winds to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back at an eventful year in Butler County and what some of the biggest and most important stories of the...
The biggest business news from Butler County in 2025
Butler County is home to businesses of all sizes, across many industries which help shape the communities they are in. In 2025, Butler County saw businesses com...
Cranberry Elks receives donation from national foundation
Elks Cranberry Lodge 2249 received a Gratitude Grant from the Elks National Foundation in December. The lodge applied for the grant to support the mission of Gl...
Valencia Presbyterian holds Christmas Eve service
Valencia Presbyterian Church held a traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service Wednesday evening, Dec. 24. The event welcomed the community for scripture re...
Evans City officials preparing to tackle multiple stormwater, infrastructure projects
Evans City officials are planning multiple stormwater projects aimed at stabilizing aging infrastructure throughout the borough. However, for a municipality wit...
12 top stories from Butler County in 2025
12 top stories from Bu...
The biggest business news from Butler County in 2025
The biggest business n...
Cranberry Elks receives donation from national foundation
Cranberry Elks receive...
Valencia Presbyterian holds Christmas Eve service
Valencia Presbyterian ...
Evans City officials preparing to tackle multiple stormwater, infrastructure pro...
Evans City officials p...
The Latest
While the adage goes “no news is good news,” the Butler Eagle did report plenty of stories that could widely be considered good news in 2025. Over the span of 2025, the ...
December 26, 2025 Local News
The Butler Eagle team looked at the numbers and learned which stories were most read on the website over the past year. These “most read” pieces reflect the reporting tha...
December 26, 2025 Local News
Butler County’s white Christmas will arrive late this year, leading PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to prepare for winter weather beginning Friday, Dec. ...
December 25, 2025 Local News
Harmony will ring in the New Year ahead of the rest of Butler County when the borough hosts its annual Silvester celebration on New Year’s Eve. The event will run from ab...
December 24, 2025 Local News
Butler County Commissioners changed public emergency alert providers after a nationwide cybersecurity incident impacted the vendor that operated the former system. The co...
December 24, 2025 Government
Local News
VALENCIA — The borough has taken a major step toward covering a potential budget shortfall for emergency services. According to borough Councilwoman Shanon McKenna, St. B...
December 23, 2025 Local News
Adams Township supervisors at a special meeting Monday morning, Dec. 22, unanimously adopted the municipality’s 2026 budget, a plan that once again holds the line on loca...
December 23, 2025 Local News
An Amazon delivery driver claims in a federal lawsuit she fell and injured her shoulder after a Zelienople police officer pulled her out of her delivery van during the ho...
December 23, 2025 Crime & Courts
A man’s life was saved in Forward Township after a group of bystanders jumped to action and pulled him out of a burning car Monday, Dec. 22. Butler County dispatchers fir...
December 22, 2025 Local News
Those in Western Pennsylvania who are looking forward to a “White Christmas” will have to turn to the movie, as Mother Nature has different plans in store this year. Fore...
December 22, 2025 Local News
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Sports
When it comes to sports, children from the Bower family of Cranberry Township are thinking...
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Braden Morin devotes much of his time to hockey, and the Seneca Valley junior is reapi...
December 18, 2025
WARRENDALE — Seneca Valley hockey is used to putting opponents on the ropes, but the table...
December 15, 2025
This past girls soccer season isn’t one Freeport will soon forget. “I knew we had a good t...
December 11, 2025
Seneca Valley boys soccer featured a number of players switching positions this season...
December 10, 2025
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Community
Rotary Club of Cranberry Township — Sunrise recently honored students from Rowan Elementar...
 
This holiday season, the Butler Eagle has gathered the wishes and dreams of Butler County’...
December 17, 2025
Early exposure to or participation in gambling during childhood is correlated with the dev...
December 16, 2025
PENN TWP — Before the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count began in 1900, bird ...
December 16, 2025
The Christmas season has local bakers up to their ears in flour, sugar, icing and eggs, bu...
December 12, 2025
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Special Sections
This holiday season, some shoppers are looking beyond traditional wrapped gifts — the kind that sometimes end up forgotten in the back of the closet —...
December 11, 2025 Special Sections
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town. One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in ...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
It’s the time of year when Grupp’s Christmas Trees is open for the holiday season. The owners said the family-run farm takes pride in providing a mem...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
Below is a list of Butler County locations participating in the national “Wreaths Across America” event on Saturday, Dec. 13. Sponsorships for wreaths...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business
The state of broadband across a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania, including Butler County, will be the topic of an event Thursday in Cran...
February 11, 2023 Local News
Part-time wedding photographer Margie Mackrell needs hours to upload wedding photos at her Muddy Creek Township home, an assignment that, by contrast,...
February 09, 2023 Local News

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