Category Archives: Local News

With a week to go before the presidential election, today marks the final deadline for mail-in ballots. Voters have until the end of business today to apply for the mail-in ballot. They can find out m...

On Monday night, the Indiana School Board approved an agreement for a new phone system that will save the district a lot of money. The new system with Full Service Network will replace all district la...

The Marion Center School Board approved three contracts from Shadco, LLC. at their meeting Monday night. One of the proposals allows Shadco to bore a tunnel from McCreery Elementary to the flag pole f...

PennDOT has scheduled a closure for Huff Road in West Wheatfield Township next week so crews can perform railroad crossing work. The closure will run from November 7 at 6 a.m. until 6:30 the following...

The River Valley School District has announced it will receive $3 million from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant program. The grant will give the district $600,000 a year over the next...

Three more brush fires were reported in Indiana County on Sunday. Indiana County 911 said the first of the three fires was reported at 6:02 PM on Iselin Road in Young Township. Iselin and Coal Run fir...

The Marion Center School board is scheduled to hold its voting meeting tonight, and a few projects concerning parking lots and camera lines are on the agenda. The board will look to approve a contract...

Two sentencing hearings are scheduled for Indiana County's Court of Common Pleas today. One of them is for 37-year-old Joshua Michael Burgess of Indiana, who pleaded guilty to two counts of theft by u...

A former corrections officer with SCI-Pine Grove is due in Indiana County's District Court for a preliminary hearing where she is charged with sexually assaulting a prisoner. Court documents say 30-ye...

Firefighters were dispatched for two brush fires on Saturday, one in Cherryhill Township and one in Washington Township. Clymer firefighters fought a fire along Allen Bridge Road and Elderton and Cree...