Rockwood News

Some much-needed help is on the way for the county's new Quemahoning Pipeline system.

A family of four fled their burning home early Friday after a fire started in the living room of their one-story house in Somerset Township, authorities said.

State police liquor control officers have charged a Somerset County club with illegally selling take-out alcoholic beverages and food concession violations.

A fire that destroyed a large barn on Skyline Drive north of Glasgow in Reade Township late Wednesday was caused by an electrical malfunction, a state police fire marshal ruled.

Rockwood School Board Director Dan Cramer, who voted to close Kingwood Elementary School, went down to defeat in Tuesday's primary.

Heavy rain caused flooding on two roads in Somerset County, making them for a time impassable to motorists.

A $100,000 replacement burn building will be available to Somerset County firefighters by August so they can get real-world experience battling blazes.

Bicycles, pedestrians and cars don't mix well. So Somerset County officials are hoping to improve safety at a key entryway to the Great Allegheny Passage trail by allowing hikers and bikers to pass over traffic via a new bridge.

For the last five months, Charlotte Hicks Carrabotta has inched through the grieving process for her son, FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks, who was killed last year while serving a warrant in Indiana Township.

You won't find the Kiski River or the Yough River -- at least the section that runs through Whitsett -- on the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's list of approved trout waters.

Hank Parke raised the idea of a bike trail through southern Somerset County during an after-work discussion in the late 1980s with attorney George Kaufman and Greg Chiappelli, then a county commissioner.

There are a number of camping sites at trailheads along the passage as it leads from the Mon Valley in Allegheny County to communities in Westmoreland, Fayette and Somerset counties and western Maryland.

A western Pennsylvania school board has rejected an offer by the state to pay for a feasibility study that would assess consolidation options.

A man accused of sitting on train tracks in Somerset County last weekend as a train approached faces charges.

A Somerset man who worked as a maintenance man at a local motel has been charged by Borough police with stealing a guest's debit card Feb.

Valerie Svonavec, 15, of Rockwood, won overall Reserve Champion Market Goat with her Boer cross named Cake during the 93rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg.

Somerset property taxes will not increase by more than 5.2 percent in 2009, the school board decided Monday.

School board members took a first look at the 2009 budget numbers Thursday night.

Kids across the county are getting their animals ready, despite the winter weather, for the 2009 Pennsylvania Farm Show Jan.

A Portage man who state police had reported as missing early Sunday turned up in the evening, on his own and unharmed, troopers at the Ebensburg barracks said.