Category Archives: Local News
SENATE MAY UNDERTAKE STATE SYSTEM REVIEW
The Sate System of Higher Education is in the midst of a self-assessment of its operations, but the state Senate Education Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved its own review on the long-term s...
Mar 31, 2017
CRIME REPORTS: SCAMMER, ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN
ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP An elderly Indiana woman has been bilked out of a significant amount of money by a scammer. The 88-year-old victim, who lives along Hickory Road in Armstrong Township, was talked in...
Mar 31, 2017
MAN CRASHES AFTER SWERVING TO AVOID BUS
A Saltsburg man narrowly avoided hitting a stopped school bus yesterday morning, crashing instead into a roadside gas meter and a utility pole along Route 286. State police say 19-year-old Bo Brunner ...
Mar 31, 2017
UPDATED PLANS DETAIL CHANGES AT TWO AREA LAKES
In a meeting at the Saltsburg River Hall yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers presented a revised master plan for the Loyalhanna Lake and the Conemaugh River Lake, which contains no new major r...
Mar 31, 2017
NO ONE HURT IN VEHICLE FIRE
No one was hurt in a car fire that happened in a parking lot just off Oakland Avenue. The fire was reported at 7:41 by Indiana County 911. When Indiana Fire Association firefighters got to the scene, ...
Mar 30, 2017
REPORT DETAILS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEATHS
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence has issued a report that says 102 people were killed last year in domestic violence incidents in the commonwealth. None of the deaths were reported...
Mar 30, 2017
HIT-AND-RUN VEHICLE HITS TRUCK IN SOUTH MAHONING TOWNSHIP
State police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who clipped a coal truck at the intersection of route 954 and Mahoning Road in South Mahoning Township on Monday afternoon. Police say the tri-axle ...
Mar 30, 2017
GRANT TOWNSHIP SUED BY DEP
On Monday, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced the approval of the conversion of an old natural gas well in Grant Township to an injection well for the disposal of wastewater fr...
Mar 30, 2017
WATER LINE EXTENSIONS COMING TO ARMSTRONG, CONEMAUGH TOWNSHIPS
State Representative Dave Reed and Senator Don White have announced state funding for water line extensions in Indiana County. $370,000 from the Department of Community and Economic Development's smal...
Mar 30, 2017
KAI HRABOVSKY'S BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED WITH COMMUNITY WORKS
Friends and teammates of Kai Hrabovsky joined other Homer City community members Wednesday in a general clean up of In Town Park, including simple repairs, basic landscaping and repainting, to remembe...
Mar 29, 2017
Indiana County Fair
What’s your favorite thing to do at the Indiana County Fair?
Voting Ends: Sep 5, 2026 | 8:00 PM
