Category Archives: Local News

INDEPENDENT REVIEW TO BE CONDUCTED INTO 9-1-1 OUTAGE
State investigators are ruling out a cybersecurity attack as a cause of the 9-1-1 outages that occurred Friday across Pennsylvania. The state's Emergency Management Agency says an independent review w...
Hometown2 Jul 14, 2025

FLOOD POTENTIAL FOR MONDAY
From the US National Weather Service A front will begin to move into the region on Monday and stall. Expect a generally focused area south of Butler where showers and thunderstorms will form off the b...
Renda Media Jul 13, 2025

CURRENT OUTLOOK FOR THE REST OF SUNDAY
From the US National Weather Service Here is the current outlook heading into the late afternoon and early evening.
Renda Media Jul 13, 2025

JUDGE GRANTS EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE DISMISSAL MOTION IN FOLEY APPEAL
Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco last week granted an unopposed motion for a ten-day extension of time for the prosecution to file for dismissal of Kevin Foley's successive petitions for r...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

ON SWELTERING SATURDAY, INDIANA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS SUIT UP
911 services were back to form statewide yesterday after Friday's outage, and they were needed. On a hot Saturday, Indiana County's firefighters were dispatched for several fire calls, including two r...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

CASES AGAINST DEFENDANTS MOVE FORWARD IN NEW FLORENCE AREA MURDER
In Westmoreland County Court, a status conference this week in the Melissa Fox-Beacom homicide trial has been moved back a day to Friday. It had been scheduled Thursday before Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFaz...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

INDIANA AREA COULD NAME NEW BOARD MEMBER ON MONDAY
Only three people have applied for the vacant school director's position on the Indiana Area school board, and a motion before the board Monday would move all three candidates to the next phase of the...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

ROADWORK THIS WEEK IN INDIANA BOROUGH
Indiana Borough anticipates ongoing work this week on a number of streets, including Peoples Natural Gas completing its work on Chestnut Street between North Carpenter Avenue and North 7th Street. Sha...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

DESIGN PROPOSALS SOUGHT FOR PATHWAYS HOMELESS SHELTER
Indiana County is preparing for the next step in the construction of the new Pathway Homeless Shelter. The county is accepting bids from architectural firms to design the facility, which will be locat...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025

GAME COMMISSION CONSIDERING SUNDAY HUNTING CHANGES
The state Game Commission says the newly-signed legislation permitting Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania will result in changes to this year's already-established hunting seasons, so the Board of Game Co...
Hometown1 Jul 13, 2025












