A fire in a wall Friday afternoon at the Community Supermarket in Lower Burrell caused an evacuation of the store for about a half-hour. Crews responded to the grocery store, at 3220 Leechburg Road, just before 4 p.m. for a smell of something burning, said Brennan Sites, chief of Lower...

Allegheny Township The Light the Season celebration will be from 5:45 to 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at the community building, 136 Community Building Road. There will be free hot dogs, popcorn, cookies and hot chocolate, music, crafts, games and the lighting of the Christmas tree. Santa Claus will be present...

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The future of emergency medical service in East Deer is no longer up in the air after the township commissioners agreed to use Lower Valley Ambulance Service. According to Commissioner’s Chairman Tony Taliani, East Deer was considering two options for EMS services. The other was the proposed paid EMS authority...

Drainage improvement work that will shift traffic on Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum is set to begin Monday, Nov. 24. The work will last until mid-December, according to a release from PennDOT. The shift will take place between Hulton and Logans Ferry roads weekdays between from 8 a.m. and 4...

Springdale residents can now offer up ideas for the future of Veterans Memorial Field in a brief survey released by the borough. The survey is part of an effort by a committee formed by the borough to determine what’s next for the now-vacant property. While the questionnaire — which asks...

East Deer residents are not expected to see a township tax increase in 2026. According to Commissioner’s Chairman Tony Taliani, revenue is projected to be just under $1.7 million and expenditures are expected to fall just over $1.5 million. “We’re very proud there was no tax increase,” Taliani said. “(The...

Oakmont Council has approved a preliminary budget for next year that calls for no increase in property tax. Councilman John Arnold was the lone vote against the budget, which passed 6-1 on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Total revenue is projected to be just over $6 million. The borough is expecting just...

Six Democratic members of Congress who served in the military or intelligence community, including U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio of Fox Chapel, are telling current servicemembers and intelligence officials they have a right — and obligation — to refuse illegal orders. In response, President Donald Trump described the message from Democrats...

Springdale police are eyeing a new member for the department — a police dog. Borough council voted recently to create the Springdale Borough Police Department K-9 Association, a nonprofit which will be used to fund the program. Several departments, including the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office, pay for police dog programs...

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Oftentimes, first responders are in reaction mode when they respond to incidents. They typically arrive at a scene and assess what needs to be done. But an upcoming class will bring together Lower Burrell leaders and officials in an effort to think more proactively when it comes to reducing risks...

An improvement project at Oakmont’s wastewater treatment plant on Ann Street is seeing steady progress. Since 2021, borough officials have been overseeing a project to improve and modernize the plant for the first time since 2008. The project is being managed by a consulting agency, Hatch Engineering. The total cost...

As Santa’s special helper, Joe Lebert anticipates old Saint Nick will receive more than 1,000 letters from children in the Alle-Kiski Valley and beyond this holiday season. Lebert plans to kick off that effort with an event Saturday, Nov. 29 at the Roy A. Hunt Elementary School gymnasium, 1701 Alcoa...

Allegheny Valley will replace more than a dozen faucets at Acmetonia Elementary School over December’s holiday break after several showed unacceptably high lead levels during testing earlier this year. The faucets are part of several classroom hand sinks in the building, all of which have been equipped with signage reading...

Tyneisha Johnson heard piercing cries coming from somewhere near her Tarentum apartment. Johnson, 37, thought the sounds Tuesday morning might be coming from a television, but that wasn’t the case. The noise, including frantic screams and barking, was from a nearby apartment, where police said a man was severely attacked...

Not much is expected to change in West Leechburg’s 2026 budget. With expected expenditures and revenue balanced at $560,260, there aren’t any tax changes expected, said borough Secretary Kayla Visnovsky. That leaves the borough’s millage rate at 29 mills. A homeowner with the median assessed property value of $20,000 would...

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Springdale Volunteer Fire Department will soon have a new fire engine for the first time in more than two decades. The department has ordered a Ferarra Cinder, which Fire Chief Dan Copeland described as a “rescue-style pumper.” Copeland became chief of the department in July after spending more than a...

A new Taco Bell location seems to be on the way in Plum. Developers submitted an application to the borough’s planning commission to build a franchise location of the popular chain at the site of the former Sheetz on Golden Mile Highway. The one-acre site has sat vacant since 2024,...