Category Archives: Local News

A local early childhood education center has earned top honors from a statewide program. LOLA's Early Care and Education Center was awarded with the star 4 rating from Pennsylvania Keys. The top honor...

Construction crews are ready to get to work on IUP's George P. Miller Stadium, which closes today for the entire summer. The university says there will be no access to the stadium. It's been used this...

Motions hearings are scheduled today for two of the three defendants charged in a robbery at an IUP residence hall last November. 20-year-old Almando Rodriguez of Philadelphia and 19-year-old Luke Era...

It was a celebration yesterday as the groundbreaking was held for a new playground at the Homer Center Elementary School. The $212,000 project will be a triumph of teamwork, with funding coming from a...

The White Township Supervisors will submit a bid for a temporary bridge. At last night's meeting, after a brief executive session, the supervisors approved submitting a sealed bid to Young Township fo...

Last night, the Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board gave preliminary approval to a budget for the next school year that will continue a trend of no tax increases for the district. The 2017-2018 budget'...

As expected, the state House yesterday passed a bill to help struggling ambulance services be reimbursed for their expenses, and the vote was unanimous. The bill sponsored by Steven Barrar of Chester ...

The story of the arrest of an accused drug dealer on Tuesday in Burrell Township offers a picture of how pervasive the heroin/fentanyl epidemic is. Westmoreland County detectives had tracked 21-year-o...

A special meeting was held yesterday concerning the Southwestern PA Region's Transportation Improvement Program. The TIP is a four-year plan that's updated every two years that concerns many different...

Today will be the groundbreaking for a new playground at Homer-Center Elementary School. The playground project has been a long time coming for the district. The new playground will be ADA Compliant, ...