Category Archives: Local News

The Homer City Borough council adopted a hazard plan and hired a new part-time police officer at Tuesday night’s meeting. Also, the chief of police spoke of the need for a new vehicle for the fo...

Today is the first day on the job for new State System of Higher Education Chancellor Daniel Greenstein. He replaces Karen Whitney, who has led the State System on an interim basis for the last year a...

There's been a change of attorneys in the criminal case against Charles Cook, the drifter accused of killing 76-year-old Myrtle McGill in 1991 at her home along South 6th Street in Indiana. On Friday,...

With the heat wave continuing across our region, two Indiana County school districts have announced early dismissals for some of their students. Blairsville-Saltsburg has posted early dismissal for al...

The Indiana Area and Blairsville-Saltsburg school district have announced early dismissals for Tuesday. – Indiana Area elementary schools will dismiss after lunch at 1:00 pm due to excessive hea...

INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE Indiana Borough Police are looking for a man who allegedly stole items from a downtown convenience store. Police say they were called out around 10:27 PM last night to the Sheet...

Four fire departments were summoned to Downtown Blairsville for a small fire in an apartment complex on Sunday. The fire was initially reported at an apartment complex on West Market Street at 4:39 PM...

The quarterly price adjustment for electricity is good news for Penelec customers. Their rates are going down. Penelec's residential electricity rates has fallen from 6.22 cents per kilowatt hour to 5...

The State Corrections Department eased its lockdown restrictions for the majority of Pennsylvania's 47,000 inmates over the weekend, allowing them to leave their cells and resume some of their normal ...

Police officers know there is no such thing as a routine day, but a DUI checkpoint in York County over the weekend serves as a sign of just how dangerous a job it is. State troopers from York and Lanc...