Next year's spending program will be just a $52,000 overall increase. The city will use a tax anticipation note of $650,000 from PNC Bank at a rate of 2.39 percent to get by until tax revenue starts arriving. Full Story »
Building on a successful first year, the StrongLand Chamber Foundation again will sponsor a program for high school students covering the "ins and outs" of establishing a business. Full Story »
Fox Chapel officials pledged $1 million on Tuesday from the borough's Land Fund reserves toward the next chapter of the Lauri Ann West Memorial Library. Full Story »
Special education in the school district will be the focus of a study by a consulting group. Full Story »
What's so great about a real Christmas tree? For Gary and Antoinette Cockroft of Leechburg, it's the adventure of finding the perfect one. Full Story »
With little fanfare, Bob Pallone replaced Wayne Perry as school board president on Monday. Full Story »
Council is holding off on adopting a tentative budget for next year as long as possible so it can raise taxes as little as possible. Full Story »
Three sponsors involved with producing the spring musical have quit, and the school board wants to know why. Full Story »
Borough residents can fight a rash of burglaries by calling police as soon as they discover the incident occurred, said police Chief David DiSanti Sr. Full Story »
Business owner Greg Joller knows there will be growing pains while Route 286 is widened, but he says the benefits will be worth the inconvenience. Full Story »
Township residents will likely see a seventh consecutive year with no property tax rate increase. Full Story »
As planners plot the route of a 270-mile bike and walking trail from Pittsburgh to Erie, community activists in Natrona want their town on the map. Full Story »
The residence of a late reputed Pittsburgh region Mafia leader might become part of a protected agricultural security area. Full Story »
Sixty-eight years ago, Steve Jager, then a young U.S. serviceman based in Hawaii, was awakened when the building where he slept began to shake. Full Story »
Charges have been filed against the driver of a truck that ran off Route 780 and crashed into a house. Full Story »
The debate about "Is it a grocery store or is it a restaurant?" will rekindle this week when the Liquor Control Board holds a hearing on a liquor license for the Giant Eagle along Tarentum Bridge Road. Full Story »
A San Diego-based company that uses an electron beam to sterilize medical equipment plans to tap into a growing regional, medical-device manufacturing base by investing $9 million in building a facility at Victory Road Business Park. Full Story »
Seven Aspinwall vehicles were forcibly broken into early Friday morning in the area of the 400 block of Center Avenue and 100 block of Fifth Street, Police Chief John Sabol said. Full Story »
It will be up to the new Saxonburg mayor and council to decide whether the borough will get another police dog after the sudden death of the dog that had been on duty for about seven years. Full Story »
Alle-Kiski Valley residents who are Comcast standard cable customers could lose about 40 channels in the next year if they don't choose a free upgrade to their service. Full Story »
Administrators promised to report to the community later this month on how tutoring can be improved, in response to complaints about the lack of academic support for athletes and other students. Full Story »
Residents called for the resignations of New Kensington-Arnold School board members Wayne Perry and Pat Petit when other board members questioned why buses were ordered through the athletic department for the Ar-Ken Rens youth football league. Full Story »
Two 18-year-old Brackenridge men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a 12-year-old boy. The boy was robbed Wednesday evening while walking home from the Exxon gas station at the foot of the Tarentum Bridge. Full Story »
Derian Keefer, 58, was killed Wednesday when the Ford F-350 flatbed truck he was driving on Route 910 in Indiana Township crashed. Full Story »
Police and an ambulance crew were called to residence in the 500 block of Allegheny Avenue shortly before midnight Thursday for a man who sustained multiple stab wounds. Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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