Category Archives: Local News
SAINT PATRICKS DAY PARADE TODAY
Indiana will celebrate St. Patrick's Day today from 11 am to noon with the 2025 Downtown Indiana St. Patrick's Day Parade along Philadelphia Street. The parade will run between 5th and 9th Streets, gi...
Mar 15, 2025
STRUCTURE FIRE DESTROYS BANKS TOWNSHIP HOME
A structure fire destroyed a home on Hemlock Lake Road yesterday morning in Banks Township. Around 9:24 am, Glen Campbell, Commodore, Rossiter, Big Run and Mahaffey Fire departments, Citizens and Indi...
Mar 15, 2025
PENNSYLVANIA STARTS INVASIVE PLANT REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
Pennsylvania homeowners will have a chance to fight invasive species of plants that may be growing on their property. Non-native trees and shrubs, like callery pear, tree-of-heaven, and Japanese barbe...
Mar 15, 2025
PA CYBER SCHOOLS TO SEE REFORM
Last year, Pennsylvania invested significant funding in public education, including over a billion dollars in new K-12 funding for the third consecutive year. This includes many Pennsylvania cyber cha...
Mar 15, 2025 Yuri Samoilov / CC
INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE REPORT TWO INCIDENTS
An Indiana man was charged with retail theft this past Thursday around 3:18 am. Indiana Borough Police responded to a report of a man trespassing in a convenience store in the 300 block of Philadelphi...
Mar 15, 2025
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT SEES SLIGHT UPTICK IN JANUARY
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate went up slightly in January. The Department of Labor and Industry reports Pennsylvania's rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.8 percent over the month of Jan...
Mar 14, 2025
FIRST COMMONWEALTH BANK ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
First Commonwealth Bank announced some changes to its Board of Directors on Friday. Todd Brice, former CEO of the Indiana-based S&T Bancorp and current Business Development Officer with The Reschi...
Mar 14, 2025
BRUSH FIRE IN CONEMAUGH TOWNSHIP AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR FIREFIGHTERS
A brush fire in Conemaugh Township Thursday afternoon left two-and-a-half acres of land burned up and one firefighter injured. Tunnelton, Saltsburg, Iselin, Coal Run, Blairsville, Blacklick, Bell Town...
Mar 14, 2025
HEAVY RAINS EXPECTED TO HIT PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE WEEKEND
As much of the central and southern US experiences severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, some of that system could be moving into Western Pennsylvania. According to AccuWeather, the most dangerous part ...
Mar 14, 2025
SCHAWL GRADUATES FROM FBI NATIONAL ACADEMY
Indiana Borough Police Chief Justin Schawl was one of 244 law enforcement officers who graduated from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, this week.Schawl had been at the academy since Jan...
Mar 14, 2025
Voter ID
Pennsylvania is one of fifteen states that does not require any form of identification in order to vote. Meanwhile, eight states require photo ID in order to vote with no exceptions. What should Pennsylvania do?
Voting Ends: Feb 24, 2026 | 12:00 PM
