Oil City News

"OIL CITY - The National Guard has been called in to assist in cleaning up parts of Venango County where flash floods Tuesday caused more than $62 million damage and presumably claimed the life of a 20-year-old Oil City man," the Erie Morning News reported on June 11, 1981.

State police said an Oil City woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a pickup truck in Venango County late Tuesday afternoon.

Today, June 2, 2013 at approximately 8:30 pm, Arianna Boal, 1 1/2 year old daughter of Jeff Boal, and Amanda Wagner fell down a flight of concrete steps outside her home in Oil City, Pa's siverly neighborhood.

A test well drilled in Greenfield Township this spring will help Oil City drillers determine if they can make money extracting and selling natural gas from the Utica Shale and other rock formations deep beneath Erie County.

South Fayette Township's new parks and recreation director Butch Truitt said he has a “commitment to bring everything up to the standards it should be.” Truitt, who was hired this year at the end of March, has been at his new job for just more than a month and so far he says things are going “great.” Prior to coming to ... (more)

Fire crews extinguished a blaze tonight that damaged the B & B Glass Center at 4327 Route 257, Venango County, police said.