Southwest News

Hundreds of local children have missed school because of H1N1 flu this fall, but school officials say that's no reason to disrupt learning.

The wage gap between women and men in Pennsylvania narrowed to about 20 percent during the past 12 years, with women still earning less than men in comparable jobs, a government report released Monday shows.

Heather Arnet, executive director of the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

The Zamias Co. of Johnstown, a major shopping center developer whose properties include Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer, has entered the apartment field for the first time with the purchase of Samuel Land Co., co-owner of five local apartment buildings.

Transportation planners laid out a wish list for state lawmakers Thursday, saying it would take billions of dollars to get all of Southwest Pennsylvania's roads and bridges back in good shape.

Southwest Pennsylvania's 13 counties recorded a slight increase in technology-related jobs and companies from 2005 to 2007, according to a report issued Wednesday.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - It usually takes 20 to 30 minutes to drive to Carnegie Mellon University from the former LTV site in Hazelwood.

A group of churches that split from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will appeal an Allegheny County judge's ruling that allowed the diocese to retain control of more than $15 million in assets, officials said Thursday.

Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and Allegheny County Airport Authority officials today announced that American Eagle, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, will add three daily nonstop flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Chicago O'Hare Airport beginning on April 6, 2010.

Several dozen residents from Youngwood, New Stanton and Hunker heard a presentation Tuesday from Smithton police Chief Glenn Kopp about the possibility of the department providing the communities with part-time law enforcement.

Pittsburgh on Tuesday was named the second-best place among the country's largest cities to launch a new business by Fortune magazine.

After years of relying solely on state police coverage, several Westmoreland County municipalities are exploring options for joining regional departments to provide a part-time law enforcement presence.

Police in western Pennsylvania are trying to figure out why an 18-year-old Arizona man was hogtied naked with duct tape in a rented house for four days before escaping last week.

Life in the fishbowl can be tough for the wives of preachers. Undefined expectations, along with the demands of family, church and community, can be overwhelming, experts say.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The following advisory is being issued by Pittsburgh G-20 Partnership: BRIEFERS: Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh Dennis Yablonsky, CEO, Allegheny Conference on Community Development TOPIC: In three weeks, the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit will take place in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Southwest has unveiled a new service, EarlyBird Check-In , which automatically reserves a boarding position prior to general check-in. This means passengers can board before the general boarding call but after the Business Select passengers and Rapid Rewards A-List customers .

Nancy Lee Cochran, who lives and works Downtown, has rejected the pleas of relatives to flee during the G-20. Instead, she wrote a prayer guide for the economic summit and is sending it to 3,000 area churches.

Citizens from around the county are expected to gather at the John Murtha Amphitheater in Kittanning's Riverfront Park on Sept.

Three local high school students attended the seventh annual Southwest Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center July 13-17. The week long academy, held at the University of Pittsburgh, is a program designed to expose high school students interested in a health career to various aspects of medicine, and related fields.

Lance: To federal buffoonery. Westmoreland's airport authority is working to attract a new airline to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport since the airfield's daily commuter service ceased operations last month.