Category Archives: Local News

The Westmoreland Community Development Department is preparing to submit a grant application for another round of HUD's Lead Hazard Control and Health Homes funding. Since its inception, this program ...

First time filings for unemployment are decreasing across Pennsylvania. That's according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which says for the week ending August 30th, there were more than 86-hundred fi...

A Westmoreland County man is pleading guilty to trafficking fentanyl and heroin. Back in 2019, now 36-year-old Kevin Watson of Arnold was arrested after leading state police on a high speed chase with...

The Mountain Watershed Association is hosting a cleanup along the Youghiogheny River tomorrow. They are looking for boat owners who would like to volunteer to help remove trash from the water between ...

A state trooper testified that he overdosed after he was exposed to fentanyl during the arrest of a Pittsburgh man last year. The Trib reports that Trooper Joshua Wiskeman testified in the pre-trial h...

Preliminary hearings are scheduled for a retired Allegheny County detective accused of injecting his then-juvenile son with testosterone and provided him with Adderall to enhance his performance on th...

A Hempfield man was convicted Thursday of aggravated assaults against two first responders last October. The Trib reports that 33-year-old Anthony Flowers spat on two EMT's, threatened additional viol...

State police from the Greensburg barracks have released the statistics from the Labor Day enforcement period. Over the three-day holiday weekend, troopers conducted roving DUI patrols and a sobriety c...

The Franklin Township Municipal Services Authority and the client communities are asking the State Department of Environmental Protection for more time to show they have made improvements to the syste...

Tween accessory retailer Claire's is planning some closures weeks after announcing it was filing for bankruptcy for a second time in a seven-year span. The company will shutter 235 Claire's locations,...