Laurel Mountain News

Residents of the small Dunbar Township community of Monarch gathered at the local fire hall this week to hear some disappointing news -- the volunteer fire department is having financial woes.

Seven Springs Mountain Resort has signed a 10-year lease to operate a dormant state-owned ski area in southwestern Pennsylvania, though it won't reopen this year and possibly not next year either.

Although construction for a new sewage system hasn't begun, residents of Darlington, Waterford and Laurel Mountain Borough continue to voice their concerns about the cost of the project.

FOR THE HONORABLE ROBERT DINWIDDIE ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR & COMMANDER OF VIRGINIA. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN M. CHRISTOPHER GIST BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO COMPANY THE 11th DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1750.

Bring your lunch to eat along the trail. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at the McDonald's along Route 30 near Latrobe.

Mon Valley Community Health Center in Monessen will be the setting for the Valley Art Club's 67th annual juried exhibition.

Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail . Chris Currie's live-and-let-live policy was put to the test last summer.

A freshly cut swath littered with fallen timber slices through 50 acres on the western slope of Laurel Mountain as though it had been leveled by an F5 tornado.

Share + Aug 17, 2009 10:16 pm US/Eastern EBENSBURG, Pa. A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the strangulation death of his mother last fall.

A Cambria County man pleaded guilty today to killing his mother. Frederick Phillips, 52, had been scheduled for trial next month on charges of homicide and aggravated assault for the strangulation death of his mother, Anna Phillips, 85.

A $1.4 million water and sewer project in Jenner Township could begin next year with an infusion of $985,680 in state funds.

Rashad Clemons has learned a thing or two about culture shock. He drove his family cross-country from Los Angeles to live and work in Pittsburgh with the East Liberty-based Coalition for Christian Outreach in 2006.

One cost of erasing Pennsylvania's $3 billion-plus budget deficit could well be the closing of five state parks in the Johnstown region.

The Rendell administration on Wednesday identified nine state parks in Western Pennsylvania that could close if a state budget approved by Senate Republicans becomes law.

The Rendell administration has continued its fight against the state Senate-approved budget plan on two fronts, raising alarms about potential effects on parks and a health insurance program for children.