Venango County News

Michael Reed is proud to keep his borough home warm with a renewable resource. He said he is happy that his wood-fired outdoor furnace runs cleaner and more efficient than many systems that burn fossil fuel, and that he saves landfill space by burning some wood products that others had planned to throw away.

The Warren-Forest Economic Opportunity Council will soon see the true effect of federal stimulus money on job creation.

Former local resident and world-traveling software developer Chad Zachary Hower left the country with his 10-year-old son amid a custody dispute three years ago.

Most Western Pennsylvania lakes and streams on the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's fall stocking schedule have received their allotment of trout.

A missing Venango County girl was found early Wednesday morning, police said. Police in Oil City had been searching for Mary Cathrine Maleski, 16, since she went missing on Tuesday.

Police have cleared a transient worker from Mexico of charges that he tried to lure a 14-year-old girl into his hotel room in northwestern Pennsylvania.

The maples are starting to sport splotches of red and gold. Within a few weeks, the transformation will be complete, as the leaves on the region's hardwoods say goodbye to their green and show off their brilliant autumnal colors, beckoning natives and visitors alike to come out for a closer view.

A Venango County man will face trial on a charge of stealing a computer from a Vernon Township business.

Patients at UPMC Northwest in Venango County may have been exposed to dangerous viruses.

A reported "small number" of patients who underwent surgery in recent months at UPMC Northwest in Seneca, Venango County, may have been exposed to what the hospital describes as "a health risk." In a statement released yesterday, the hospital said patients who underwent surgical procedures there face "an extremely low risk" of illness resulting ...

Walter F. Roche Jr. can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7894. Some UPMC surgical patients might have been exposed to potentially life-threatening illnesses due to the failure of sterilizing equipment at the hospital system's Seneca Venango County facility.

SENECA, Pa. - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says some patients at one of its hospitals in northwestern Pennsylvania have been exposed to an unspecified "health risk." UPMC says the patients who recently had surgery at UPMC Northwest in Seneca, Venango County face "an extremely low health risk" due to a problem the hospital network is ...

A reported "small number" of patients who underwent surgery in recent months at UPMC Northwest in Seneca, Venango County, may have been exposed to what the hospital describes as "a health risk." In a statement released this week, the hospital said patients who underwent surgical procedures there face "an extremely low risk" of health problems ...

The Center for Education Policy, a leading national education research organization, identified Pennsylvania as the only state to see increased student achievement in elementary, middle and high school between 2002 and 2008.

EXPECT TO HEAR rowdy debate this fall about exactly how and how fast the nation can suppress its appetite for oil.

It's hard to believe a major part of the oil age began only 150 years ago on the other side of the state from here, in what became known as Oilcreek Township, Venango County, when Edwin Drake struck oil Aug.

This photo shows the replica of the pump house and derrick of Drake's well built in 1945 in Titusville, Pa.

A Venango County man who was killed in a two-vehicle crash yesterday has been identified as Benjamin W. Horner, 19, of Franklin.

With the recent discussion of the development of the Marcellus Shale, many have questions regarding the formation.

A female teacher has been fired from a northwestern Pennsylvania school for having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old female student.