Category Archives: Local News

State Representative Jim Struzzi has introduced a bill that would reform the standards used for the state's Small and Disadvantaged Business Program.   Struzzi said yesterday that the program giv...

IUP's annual remembrance program for the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. and in the skies over Somerset County is scheduled for 8:30 this morning at t...

Indiana Fire Association was called out to the corner of Water Street and Jimmy Avenue at 12:04 PM for a report of lines down. The resulting outage is affecting power in parts of Indiana. Motorists sh...

As the outages that came from a blown transformer in Lucernemines were about to be fixed, more outages came, hitting a wider area. Power went out in Indiana Borough around 11:56 this morning for India...

Indiana Area School District's Superintendent addressed concerns with the phenomenon known as Lunch Shaming in his report to the school board. The issue has been brought up in other school districts a...

No one was hurt in a fire in Cherryhill Township last night that damaged parts of a two-story wood-framed home. Cherryhill Township, Clymer, Commodore and Pine Township fire departments were called ou...

If you're in the northern part of Center Township or live near Homer City, you may be waking up this morning without power. Homer City Fire Department was called out for miscellaneous duty at a locati...

After another racist post on social media hit the IUP community last week, the university has scheduled an event tonight entitled, "A Community Response to Hate at IUP".   The post last week was ...

The United School Board meets tonight, and while the agenda does not list anything related specifically to the football program, it may come up during the public comment portion of the meeting.  ...

Indiana County businesses have often been plagued by counterfeit U.S. currency in the last year, and it happened again in Indiana Borough last week.   Indiana Borough Police say that sometime bet...