ON MONDAY, PENN STATE’S board of trustees sold the naming rights to its most prized piece of real estate for $50 million. The gridiron of grass inside Beaver Stadium is becoming West Shore Home Field....

Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Monessen met Feb. 16 in the Epiphany Church Hall at Epiphany of Our Lord Church in Monessen. The members met before the 10:30 a.m. Mass and Regent Debbie Genem...

Lacey Siess’ child care students in the McKeesport Tiger Tots preschool program made Dr. Seuss Week an unforgettable one. Tiger Tots had a blast celebrating with wacky dress-up days, creative crafts, ...

Monessen High School softball player Joey Hurst got a good luck hug from her cousin, Savannah Wilkerson, 2, of North Charleroi before Monday’s scrimmage at Charleroi Area High School. Jenn Codeluppi /...

The musical comedy features roller skating, tap dancing and much more. Belle Vernon Area High School students will become stars during this year’s annual spring musical of the “Drowsy Chaperone.” From...

A Charleroi woman heard the feline meowing from under the hood of a car. It’s not too often firefighters are called to rescue a cat from a tree, let alone a car engine, but first responders in Charler...

The department will seek donations and hold fundraisers to help offset the estimated costs. White Oak Officer Jerry Athans proposed bringing back the police department’s K-9 program after more than 20...

The popular event will return June 13 and will continue on Fridays through Sept. 5. The annual Monongahela Farmers Market will make its return to Chess Park this summer with weekly themes, a lineup of...

A plan to create digital billboards in the borough was also discussed. Charleroi council will consider options for technology upgrades inside council chambers and potentially advertising throughout th...

Jerry Radebaugh was appointed to the board and Joe Dalfonso was retained. At a March 6 meeting, the Westmoreland County commissioners appointed two members to the Westmoreland County Housing Authority...

A McKeesport man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Monday. Richard L. Edwards Jr., 49, pleaded guilty to one c...

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has threatened it before. It has dangled the string and tried to make us jump. It has coyly set deadlines only to pull back at the last minute. It’s happening! It is! Ha, ha, no...

Fable one: Trump is appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II dea...

“Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee.” These days, political parody is next to impossible, because politics is so absurd. Case in point: The above quote is from a post from someone on the right side...

Monongahela Area Revitalization Corp. President George Eckert, at left, is shown presenting a check from the Monongahela Farmers Market to Mark Smith, CEO of the Mon Valley Academy for the Arts, for m...

Port Vue police responded to a report of shots fired early Monday morning. Around 7:15 a.m. police were called to the 300 block of San Jose Drive for a report of numerous shots. By the time police arr...

Nobody was injured during a fire Monday morning in McKeesport, according to fire officials. McKeesport firefighters were called to a duplex on Oxford Drive after reports of a fire. They observed a fir...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more so...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. As promised, the second Trump administration has quickly rolled out a slew of policies a...

Charleroi Area High School students staged the musical ‘Hadestown: Teen Edition’ this weekend. Senior Lairah DiPietrantonio as Persephone is shown with the “Fates” during a scene from Saturday’s prese...