Westmoreland County News

The Allegheny Valley Chamber of Commerce, Armstrong County Chamber of Commerce and the StrongLand Chamber of Commerce will merge into a single organization known as the Allegheny Kiski Regional Chamber of Commerce.

A federal judge has approved a request to seal the settlement agreement reached by former Northumberland County chief clerk and solicitor Kymberley Best in a lawsuit against the county over her firing.

The gas drilling big rigs have made many people angry, but not the people who are reaping the big bucks that Marcellus Shale is bringing.

It's been a day of storm preps across the region from Westmoreland County to Allegheny County and everywhere in between.

George O'Donnell said when his son Georgie was just hours old, doctors told him and his wife the boy would have too many health problems, and he would be better off living in a group home where trained professionals could care for him.

A man was run over and killed by a lawnmower at a golf course on Tuesday afternoon, according to emergency dispatchers in Westmoreland County.

Comes a time for all parents when the children grow up and move out. Pittsburgh's newest empty nesters are the eagles of Hays, whose lone offspring left the nest Saturday.

A former deputy sheriff from southwestern Pennsylvania has entered a probation-without-verdict program that has resulted in heroin possession charges being dropped against her.

A former Westmoreland County man was arrested Saturday night on drug charges after South Strabane Township police stopped a suspicious car reportedly involved in thefts at Home Depot earlier in the day.

A Johnstown woman faces charges after police said she tried to steal three air conditioners from the Wal-Mart store in Somerset Township.

Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public's help in finding the person responsible for shooting a Shetland pony with a high-powered rifle this week in Westmoreland County.

Police in Westmoreland County are investigating after a family's Shetland pony was shot in the neck and died from its injuries.

S&T Bank, among the largest financial institutions serving Pittsburgh, has appointed John Kline as senior vice president, commercial lending.

Police are searching for a Westmoreland County man after finding his car and cellphone near the Avonmore Bridge between Avonmore and Kiski Township Thursday morning.

June 06--The last of six men accused of setting fires throughout the city of Jeannette pleaded guilty to arson charges on Wednesday.

When the unthinkable happens with little or no warning like a fire or flooding, the American Red Cross will be there to help you, but not your pets.

Police in Westmoreland County are asking for help from the public in the search for a missing 14-year-old girl last seen this morning.

Descendants of Max Kohler, who carved the original Dollar Bank lions, with one of the new lions carved by Nicholas Fairplay.

A collection of Bud Gibbons paintings, on loan from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, is on display during June and July in the Art Gallery at Penn State New Kensington.

The future of a controversial pilot program that combines seven different types of human services funding into one block grant to counties is unclear after a Senate committee voted Tuesday to expand the program, while a House committee voted to curtail it.