Category Archives: Local News

There is about a week left before the application period closes for a grant from a local legal firm that will be given to a young entrepreneur. The law firm of Marcus and Mack are sponsoring the first...

The Indiana Area School Board will meet tonight, with an agenda which was already lengthy before the fire at the Eisenhower Elementary School, and which will have even more discussion items now. The A...

The Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education has scheduled a public meeting for this Wednesday to discuss the plan to integrate six universities into two. Three universities in weste...

With workers hard to find, Idlewild & SoakZone and its sister amusement parks, Kennywood and Sandcastle Waterpark, have announced wage increases for most hourly workers. The wages at Idlewild will...

The race for governor of Pennsylvania is beginning to heat up, but only a little. Former congressman Lou Barletta, the GOP's failed U.S. Senate candidate in 2018, this week announced that he has forme...

The Blairsville-Saltsburg School District is moving forward with the district reorganization plan and they are looking to the community for suggestions to re-name the district. For the time being, the...

INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE Police in Indiana Borough have charged a Shelocta man with DUI in connection with a crash on March 25th. Police say that they were called out to a report of a car against a tele...

An IUP Graduate and a woman with Indiana connections has been named a new wealth advisor for First Commonwealth Bank. The bank announced the recent hiring of Laura Leach-Joos as the new wealth advisor...

The Indiana County Drug Task Force is getting ready for their annual drug takeback day to be held in both Indiana and Blairsville tomorrow. Both Diamond Drug in Downtown Indiana and the Rite Aid Pharm...

Several plea and sentencing hearings are scheduled for today in Indiana County Court and while most of them are DUI or drug-related, there are some notable cases on the schedule. 29-year-old Jordan Sh...