Kelly Shoemaker of Sutersville, center, enjoys an afternoon ride Monday on the Great Allegheny Passage in West Newton with her mother-in-law, Carol Shoemaker of West Newton, left, and her mother, Chri...

State Sen. Camera Bartolotta toured the facility Monday to help suggest new ideas. Inside the former Donora Elementary Center, the past lingers on every wall. A faded bulletin board still tells studen...

Repairs on part of Seventh Street are expected to continue for several days. A tri-axle truck got stuck in a sinkhole Monday afternoon in Charleroi. The area of Seventh Street and Cherry Alley was blo...

Around 11 p.m. Sunday, Donora and Carroll Township firefighters responded to reports of smoke coming from a residence at 25 McKean Ave. Chief Patsy Vince confirmed a working fire and requested crews f...

The borough’s code enforcement will investigate the complaints. White Oak had a packed meeting room for Monday’s council meeting, with residents complaining about dilapidated properties around the bor...

The fundraising event will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the boat launch area of Cedar Creek Park. For the MVI The Belle Vernon Area Rotary Club is ready for its annual Regatta on the Yough...

The donation will be used to provide scholarships for students pursuing careers in health, technology and industrial arts. For the MVI The Robert Miner Family Foundation recently presented the Westmor...

The county has been spraying a low-risk pesticide in problem areas. By TOM DAVIDSON TribLive A Plum resident’s fever, malaise and digestive trouble since mid-July was confirmed to be the first human c...

The Elks Place property has been an area of flooding over the years. Rostraver Township commissioners unanimously voted Monday to advertise the Elks Place Stream Restoration Project, which could open ...

“Destroying democracy” — the latest theme of the left — can be defined in many different ways. How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-t...

It’s back-to-school time in many parts of the country. Will students be painting coffins in the playgrounds? Will they have field trips to funeral homes for pajama parties? What dark planet have I com...

A man was killed Saturday after a Jeep Wrangler he was driving overturned in Cook Township, according to information released Monday by state police and the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office. Jason...

At left, Leonard Cole, a 76-year-old Vietnam veteran, and Bill Fawcett, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, were the first of many who were honored at Saturday’s Warriors Rock hosted by Gary Racan an...

Thousands of openings are available throughout the local four-county region. Whether you’re in the Allegheny foothills, Westmoreland’s small boroughs or the rural edges of Washington or Fayette County...

The life-saving device is a gift from Bazylak Memorial Fund and the Aliver Foundation. A new AED provided by the Marsha Bazylak Memorial Fund and the Aliver Foundation was unveiled Sunday at McKeespor...

The employees are very aware of the dangers that come with working at the U.S. Steel plant. By JUSTIN VELLUCCI TribLive Brian Doyle remembers the explosion that hurled him to the coke plant’s floor — ...

Their paintings provide a pleasant surprise for the people who find them. Fun and colorful paintings are turning up on several neighborhood rocks in Elizabeth. Eliza Vickers, who is going into seventh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A report that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised will improve the health of America’s children does not call on the government to make signif...

Isaw the future exactly 30 summers ago while on assignment in Iowa. I just didn’t know it. But that future — the mobilization of angry voters, the aggressive rhetoric, the twin senses of resentment an...

COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN TAKE THE DORM experience seriously. You can’t walk into Walmart or Target without hitting a wall of ready-for-campus furnishings and accessories. For many, the must-haves range fr...