Category Archives: Local News

Four Indiana County school boards are scheduled to meet this week. The Indiana Area and Purchase Line school boards will both meet tomorrow. Indiana Area will vote on the 2025-26 school calendar. Othe...

There is another status conference scheduled this week for Ronald Weiss, the Tunnelton man awaiting retrial for the March, 1978 murder of 16-year-old Barbara Bruzda. Indiana County President Judge Tho...

The State Game Commission has graduated its 36th class of new game wardens, and two of them are from Indiana County. Zachary Killeen of Shelocta has been assigned to Westmoreland County. He was also h...

Please exercise caution and stay indoors if you can, as much of Indiana County is experiencing freezing rain during the 5 pm hour and it's expected to continue into the late evening hours. The purple ...

From PennDOT and the US National Weather Service Ahead of anticipated winter weather across the state Saturday into Sunday, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the PA Turnpike ...

Severe winter weather is about to hit Indiana County once again. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory that will go into effect for most of Indiana County at 1:00 this afte...

A Homer City man was arrested in Jefferson County on Thursday after setting up a sexual encounter with someone he thought was a teenager. Police in Brookville arrested 27-year-old Todd Yarnell, Jr. at...

A Johnstown man pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday for violating federal narcotics laws in an investigation that took place across Western Pennsylvania. 57-year-old Daniel Culmer entered the ...

The search for a missing Westmoreland County man and the first brush fire of 2025 were among the calls for Indiana County's first responders on Friday. Blairsville, Tunnelton and Saltsburg fire depart...

Two Indiana County banks are in the top 100 on Forbes' "Best Banks in America" list. Both First Commonwealth Bank and S&T Bank ranked on the annual list, with S&T ranked 46th and First Commonw...