Category Archives: Local News

The Purchase Line School Board will meet tonight and the final adoption of next year's budget is on the agenda. The district's budget comes to $20,792,851 in revenues and $21,128,407 in expenses. The ...

Authorities are looking for the driver who crashed into a street sign in Homer City Borough on Sunday morning. State police say that the crash was reported at 10:35 AM on North Main Street, as white N...

Three jury trials are set to get underway today with jury selection scheduled for this morning. Court documents show that only three cases will have their jury selection hearings today. One is for 29-...

Some lane shifts are expected to start tonight in the Route 286/422 project area. Line painting was going on late last week for the lane shifts, which are expected to run from 7:00 tonight to 7:00 tom...

The Ray Shetler trial is scheduled to get underway this morning at 9 o'clock in Westmoreland County Court. The trial is listed on today's court schedule after Shetler insisted it be held in a contenti...

Indiana County's firefighters have been busy this weekend. After answering about a dozen calls Friday and early Saturday, Marion Center firefighters were dispatched last night for a brush fire along D...

Road crews will be working on a number of projects in Indiana County this week. There will be traffic restrictions on Oakland Avenue in White Township, where night work is scheduled to begin tomorrow ...

Aside from last night's fire in White Township, Friday was an active day for Indiana County's first responders. Two brush fires were reported on Friday. The first was reported at 7:57 AM on Route 22 E...

The average gas price in the United States and in Pennsylvania continues to decline slightly. The national average is now $4.98 a gallon, a drop of two cents from Friday and a two-cent drop from last ...

Pennsylvania continues to gain back jobs that were lost at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Department of Labor and Industry reports the statewide unemployment rate stands at 4.6 percent fo...