Western PA Local News category, Page 10
Westmoreland airport authority votes to extend paid parking lot, reduce price to $4
Paid parking at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport will be expanded starting next month. The Westmoreland County Airport Authority on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to more than double the size of the paid overnight parking lot in front of the main terminal building and cut the daily rate by more...
Corey O’Connor’s 1st 100 days as Pittsburgh mayor marked by crises, curves, coups
During his first 100 days as Pittsburgh’s mayor, Corey O’Connor has grappled with crises and celebrated successes. He’s uncovered a roughly $30 million hole in the budget, declared a state of emergency during the first major snowstorm of his term and dealt with a sealed search warrant served on the...
Finding love at 13,500 feet: Shaler couple meets, builds relationship through skydivingVideo
Justin Mastermonico was just looking for someone to fall with him. But he found someone who fell for him, too. It was 2020. The world was shut down because of the covid-19 pandemic. Sitting at home and doing nothing, Mastermonico put a post on his Facebook page saying he had...
$15K gift from Garden Club of Allegheny County to help grow native plant center at Beechwood Farms
The Audubon Center for Native Plants at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve is growing. A $15,000 grant from the Garden Club of Allegheny County will support expansion of the center, housed at the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania headquarters on Dorseyville Road in Fox Chapel. Funding will play a key role...
Military veterans find lifeline through Pittsburgh Warriors hockey team
Editor’s note: The following story was submitted for the Shaler Area Student Section, a collaboration between TribLive and The Oracle, the student newspaper of Shaler Area High School. Go to a concert and just about every artist has opening acts that are trying to grow their name. The same thing...
Blawnox volunteer serves as a tireless advocate for borough
Diane Casile-Gross is all about Blawnox. The “first lady” of Blawnox is married to longtime public servant Mayor Anthony Gross, but to most she’s simply a friendly, tireless volunteer involved in a flurry of ongoing programs and events to make the borough shine. Casile-Gross grew up in Aspinwall but has...
Ligonier Township supervisors failed to approve request; Country Market to look at other options
Ligonier Township officials Tuesday failed to approve Waterford Volunteer Fire Department’s request to have its 26-acre property rezoned from an agricultural to a commercial designation so it could expand its fire hall and also host the popular Ligonier Country Market. The rejection came by default — it never made it...
How the rich shrink their tax burden
With the IRS expecting 164 million individual income tax returns this year, there’s a common conception that rich people pay less tax in the U.S. than what many would consider fair. It’s a sentiment that shows up in polling on Americans’ attitudes about the federal tax system and animates a...
Insulting, blasphemous, disgrace: Western Pennsylvania Catholics weigh in on public discourse between Trump, Pope Leo XIV
West Deer resident Sam Mayhan has only ever voted for one person for president: Donald Trump. But the 28-year-old Catholic is now “pretty perturbed,” finding himself torn between his political allegiance and his faith following the president’s recent social media attacks on Pope Leo XIV. “I don’t think the pope...
Pitt to offer online Infant Mental Health certificate
A new University of Pittsburgh academic program aims to address the mental health, growth and development needs of infants and toddlers amid a shortage of qualified, working professionals. Pitt has launched a new, online graduate certificate in Infant Mental Health. The 12-credit program kicks off this fall, said Robert Gallen,...
Westmoreland County finalizes plans for May primary
Nearly a dozen polling locations will move for next month’s primary election in Westmoreland County. The county commissioners met Tuesday as the county’s election board to finalize plans for the May 19 primary. Despite ongoing lobbying complemented by a rally last week outside the courthouse, no action was taken on...
Research Expo at Penn State New Ken shows students resilient as ever
Solar energy is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sources — but it has some limitations, reports Penn State New Kensington student Kaleb Schaffer. Schaffer, and three of his peers, have explored how solar power systems can sustain themselves given factors like extreme weather, temperature changes and materials degrading over...
Shaler unveils advanced AEDs available for public use in township’s 10 parksVideo
Highly advanced devices that are very simple to use to save lives are now available to the public throughout Shaler. The township partnered with Shaler Hampton EMS to place a dozen automated external defibrillators in 10 parks. “One day, one of these devices will be used, and when it is...
Greensburg another step closer on easements for Northmont flood control project
An easement agreement was approved Monday with one of two Hempfield property owners who have been in negotiations with Greensburg officials related to a flood control project in the Northmont neighborhood. Greensburg council on Monday OK’d the agreement, which calls for a $26,000 payment to John Maline, owner of property...
Former Gettysburg mayor’s arrest in Texas captured on body camVideo
Authorities in Texas have released body camera footage of former Gettysburg Mayor Chad-Alan Carr’s April 8 arrest in Texas on child sex charges. The footage was released by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, which was serving a warrant on behalf of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office after new...
Man gets up to 30 years in prison for killing homeless woman under Carnegie bridge
Barbara McKenna lived and died on the streets of Carnegie, beaten to death by a fellow homeless person who knew her as “Aunt Babs.” On the morning of Aug. 18, 2024, Joseph Beraducci attacked McKenna, who at 64 was more than twice his age, after they had been drinking together....
North Allegheny 4th grader sets the stage for success
Lorelai Hedgepeth may be a typical fourth grader while walking the halls of North Allegheny’s Hosack Elementary School. But it’s outside of school where she takes a more untypical path. At 9 years old, Lorelai is enough of an on-stage regular that she already has a pretty impressive performance dossier,...
Bud Light to offer free beer while fans’ teams are on the clock at NFL Draft
Football fans will have a chance to get ahead of their favorite team’s cringe-inducingly bad draft decisions or celebrate team-building foresight at the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh — provided they’re into downing a Bud Light draft. According to a Tuesday press release from Anheuser-Busch, during the NFL Draft from...
806-unit development approved in Collier
An 806-unit development between Fort Pitt and Scotts Run roads in Collier was approved by township commissioners despite public pushback and concerns. The Collier Ridge development was approved by commissioners in a 3-1 vote, with one abstention, on March 23. The development will be on 154 acres of the total...
Jeannette receives land that would allow expansion of public works department
The Westmoreland County Land Bank is donating a property to Jeannette that could be used for future expansion of its public works garage. City council last week approved the donation of the land on North Fourth Street that shares a border with the public works property. The land bank acquired...
Vandergrift woman forms medieval-themed event in Monroeville to mix fantasy and reality
Aleesha Kelly of Vandergrift likes things that are mysterious. She harnesses that curiosity for the different and unknown through curating immersive, themed events under her business Mystic Market, a Magickal Menagerie. She has helped organize events like the Vandergrift Artsfest and the Witching Hours Night Market. Now, she has turned...
Long-awaited cleanup work begins at Parks Township nuclear dump
More than 20 years after federal legislation added a Parks Township nuclear waste dump to a list of sites needing remediation, excavation work is finally underway on what’s expected to be a yearslong cleanup process. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began its excavation at the site — formally known...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces sale to nonprofit media group
An eleventh-hour buyer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette emerged Tuesday, two weeks before its planned shutdown, but the prospective owners signaled that the surviving operation will be smaller and staff cuts could be expected. The buyer — nonprofit Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, owner of The Baltimore Banner — said it...
Glassport sandwich shop opens location in Penn Township
A Glassport sandwich shop has expanded to a second location in Penn Township. Glads Deli opened in March along Route 130 at Crossroads Plaza. The building formerly housed a Subway. Owner Jason Billingsley ran Affordable Bathrooms and Kitchens by JB from 2000 to 2023 before getting into the restaurant industry....
Buffalo Township police to get upgraded Tasers and new body and vehicle cameras
Buffalo Township supervisors have approved a program to upgrade equipment for the police department. The board voted unanimously to approve a five-year contract with Axon, an Arizona-based public safety equipment manufacturer. Police Chief Timothy Derringer said Axon will be updating the department’s Tasers, the nonlethal weapons that emit an electric...
