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A new five-year contract with Jeannette’s sanitation and streets department was approved by council Thursday. The collective bargaining agreement, if also approved by Teamsters Local Union No. 30, will run through the end of 2027. It will be retroactive to January 2023 after the previous pact expired in December 2022,...

After construction bids came in higher than expected for Jeannette’s new fire station, officials are adjusting the scope while time is running out to spend grant money designated for the project. Four bids were opened Wednesday, but only two offered a price for the entire project. The lowest bid to...

Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office vehicles won’t be tracked by GPS until a lawsuit challenging a policy requiring the devises on county vehicles is resolved, a judge ruled. The policy, enacted this summer by the commissioners but not yet put into practice, requires around-the-clock tracking of all county owned and leased...

Mary Beth L. Jenkins will be UPMC Health Plan’s next president and CEO starting Jan. 1, the health care provider announced Friday. She will also serve as president of UPMC Insurance Services Division and executive vice president of UPMC. “Mary Beth’s forward-thinking work within UPMC’s successful integrated health care delivery...

Work is expected to start in November on a small bridge that carries South Sixth Street over Brush Creek in Jeannette. Council on Thursday accepted a bid of just over $882,000 from CH&D Enterprises for the project. City Manager Ethan Keedy said the presumptive lowest bid was deemed to be...

A federal judge on Thursday said third-party presidential candidate Cornel West cannot have his name placed on Pennsylvania’s ballot — despite the court’s concerns over how state election laws treat minor-party candidates. “Common sense tells the court that we are less than one month from a presidential general election,” wrote...

When Pittsburgh police interviewed Keith Foster in 2020 about a rape, a detective told him he wasn’t a suspect. That was a lie. Detective Brian Sellers had already gotten a search warrant for Foster’s DNA. During the interview, Foster claimed he didn’t know the victim or have sex with her....

With October being Fire Prevention Month and as colder weather moves in, Upper Burrell firefighters are urging homeowners to clean their furnaces and chimneys — and make sure their smoke detectors are in working order. Firefighters put out a blaze earlier this week in the Lincoln Beach section of the...

Bushy Run lost dozens of trees in a tornado that whipped through Penn Township this summer, but a community donation may help restore that loss across the 213-acre park. Friends of PTARC — the nonprofit fundraising group associated with the Penn-Trafford Area Recreation Commission — donated $1,000 to support the...

Arnold needs to renovate a malfunctioning sewage pump station on Riverside Drive to the tune of almost half a million dollars. Council is asking Westmoreland County to approve its request to the state Commonwealth Financing Authority for a $479,000 grant from the Local Share program. City Public Works foreman Joe...

The chill in the air means the days of golfing are numbered, but a new simulator at Mt. Odin Golf Course in Greensburg will allow players to work on their game year ‘round. Officials hope the simulator will bring in some revenue for the city-owned course during a time of...

A $30 million sports complex that was to include an indoor field operated by the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer team won’t be built on municipal property in North Huntingdon. The township commissioners Thursday quashed the possibility of another round of talks on lease with developers NHT Investment Partners LLC, formed by...

Greensburg Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School will host an open house on Nov. 3 for prospective students. The open house will start at 1 p.m. Students and their parents will be able to tour the campus and classrooms, connect with members of student clubs and sports teams, meet the faculty...

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Here are some of the latest news items from this morning: Friday, Oct. 11: Landslide in Polish Hill A landslide impacted parts of Brereton Street, just past Haran Street, in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill, early Friday morning. Pittsburgh Police responded to the landslide just before 3 a.m., where officers saw a...

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When he was named Point Park University president last year, Chris Brussalis touted his school’s potential to spark a “Downtown Renaissance 3” with targeted development including a new venue for sports and recreation. On Thursday, Brussalis unveiled a sizable part of that vision for the Golden Triangle. He and the...

The “New Northland” renovation project is in progress. Lots is happening, and Northland Public Library looks different already with temporary walls blocking off the entire lower-level lobby and as parts of the upper level. Major adjustments during construction are: • For the duration of the project, the lower-level main entrance...

Criminal charges were withdrawn Thursday afternoon against three of the four Blackburn Center staffers that police had said obstructed efforts by the state police to enforce an emergency custody order issued this month by a county judge. According to a statement issued by Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli, the...

New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving historically are known as big drinking holidays, with police stepping up DUI enforcement in an effort to curb drunken driving. PennDOT doesn’t consider Halloween a “holiday season,” so it doesn’t specifically track crashes and DUI incidents as it does for Christmas, the Fourth of July...

“Murder Can Be Habit-Forming” is the fall play to be performed at the North Allegheny Intermediate High School auditorium on Cumberland Road. Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 24 and at 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 26. A Senior Citizen’s/GOLD Card performance is at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 23. The...

Westmoreland County voters will begin seeing mail-in ballots arrive at their homes as early as Saturday, election officials said. More than 42,000 mail-in ballots have been sent to voters this week. Those who have yet to apply can do so at the courthouse, which, since Monday, has started same-day voting....

An upcoming 4.1% rate increase for West View Water Authority customers can be attributed to higher operating expenses. The rate, approved by the authority board of directors, is set to rise Jan. 1. The last rate increase was in September 2018. Shambaugh Utility Consulting LLC, the authority’s rate consultant, recently...

A historic former government office building in Downtown Pittsburgh is on track to be turned into affordable housing as part of a $55 million project. The 200 Ross Street site — formerly known as the John P. Robin Civic Building — will be revitalized to include 68 apartments, community space...