On your way to Sheffield, at the railroad crossing, you pass a sign pointing right toward downtown. Route 666 West. If you stay on it, the road carries you past names that have been here longer than most people realize. Horton Avenue, Dunham Street and Pratt Street. All are names tied to some ...

Officials at the Kinzua Dam announced a significant increase in water releases scheduled for Monday, warning that the change could lead to rising river levels downstream over the next several days. According to Kinzua Dam resource manager Doug Helman, outflows will begin Monday, with gate ...

It’s time to break out the paint brushes and easel. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is accepting works for its 2027 Working Together for Wildlife Art Contest, with entries due by July 31. The 2027 featured category is Pennsylvania shorebirds. Qualifying submissions must include at least ...

Bill McFarland, after discovering a family treasure, set out on a quest to preserve pieces of history that were left to his grandmother. What was the treasure? Two trunks of projection equipment, magic lantern slides, and 10 reels of highly combustible black and white silent nitrate film from ...

Shortly after the story about the lack of clean water at Mason's Mobile Home Park appeared in Wednesday's Times Observer, businesses started reaching out, seeing what they could do to help. A bottled water pickup station was very quickly established at Napoli Pizza in North Warren. Lance ...

A state House member is trying another avenue to get his colleagues to approve an additional $30 million in state funding for volunteer fire companies. In February, Gov. Josh Shapiro included a new $30 million investment — nearly doubling annual funding for fire departments — in ...