Cambria County News

Conemaugh Health System in Johnstown has been acquired by for-profit Duke LifePoint Healthcare, ending partnership efforts by Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Highmark Inc. with the Cambria County provider.

A Huntingdon County man was killed IN AN ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. State police saY 61 YEAR OLD Randall Brown of Mapleton Depot DIED when a branch fell from a tree he was working on.

Cambria County Commissioner Mark Wissinger said he's been getting several calls - all the same questions: What's going on at the county's new Economic Development Authority? How far along is the proposed foreign trade zone? Although the authority still has no executive director - nor has it drawn up a budget - the board's regular meeting at the ... (more)

SOMEBODY IS TARGETING DUCKS AT SPRING DAM PARK IN ROARING SPRING. GAME COMMISSION WILDLIFE CONSERVATION OFFICER ALBERT ZELLNER TELLS THE ALTOONA MIRROR THAT AT LEAST 3 DUCKS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND SEVERAL MORE ARE EXPECTED TO DIE AFTER BEING HIT BY SHARPENED WOODEN STICKS, STEEL BLOWGUN DARTS, OR 28 INCH ARROWS.

State Rep. Gary Haluska is retiring and will avoid running against another incumbent in western Pennsylvania's redrawn 72nd House District.

Significant drops in senior citizen bus riders in other areas have prompted Luzerne County Transportation Authority Executive Director Stanley Strelish to question if the state has singled out his system for scrutiny and punishment.

New Bethlehem Police Chief Scott Ryan told exploreClarion.com that the search continues for Michael J. Wholaver Jr., 26, of Westover.

It's in memory of the people who lost their lives in the crash of Flight 93 on September 11th.

Former Penn State football assistant coach Jay Paterno spoke not one "Sandusky" as he made his debut debate along with candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor.

Feb. 28--JOHNSTOWN -- Tax reform discussion draft proposals released by former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp could, if eventually enacted, significantly change the way businesses can deduct advertising expenses.

Northern and western Centre County, northern Clinton County, and Clearfield and Cambria counties were under a wind chill advisory issued by the National Weather Service.

Gerald Lowmaster, the father of the alleged leader of a major drug organization headquartered in Carrolltown, Cambria County, was sentenced Thursday to 46 months in a federal prison.

A federal judge in Johnstown has delayed the execution of convicted child killer Stephen Rex Edmiston.

Last year, State Senator John Wozniak said he was considering running for Lieutenant Governor.

State police and the Federal Communications Commission have had it with the static - and other nonsense - being broadcast by whoever has stolen two-way radios from two southwestern Pennsylvania volunteer fire departments.

The brutal winter has prompted pothole complaints across the state, but they're so bad in one western Pennsylvania town that the county transit agency is rerouting buses around one especially bad section of road.

AN 11 YEAR OLD CAMBRIA COUNTY BOY DIED AT PITTSBURGH'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL THIS WEEKEND FOLLOWING A FEBRUARY 18TH ACCIDENT.

A misdemeanor charge has been filed against the man police said accidently shot and killed a friend during a hunting trip in December.

The estate of a Northern Cambria man is suing Cambria County over his murder 19 months ago in the county prison in Ebensburg.

A Blair County judge has dismissed three aggravated assault charges against a death row inmate accused of sucker-punching his Cambria County attorney in court last spring.