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Senior centers in Fayette, Greene and Washington counties will be receiving grants from the state to make renovations and upgrades to their facilities. All told, more than $3 million is going out to 422 senior community centers across the commonwealth. That includes $2 million in competitive ...

A representative for unionized employees at UPMC Washington said job cuts announced this week by the health system break a promise to invest in the community that was made when UPMC took over the hospital two years ago. UPMC announced Tuesday that it was laying off 200 employees and ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series about the people who make up our community, in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. Of all the towns in all the world, they live in Washington. ÎÞëÊÓÆµœMy familyÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s from the Dominican Republic, but I was born and raised in Boston, ...

‘The Horseshoe Man’

They call him "The Horseshoe Man." On a nice day, there he is, at the corner of East South and South Market streets with his safety goggles on, sparks flying as he labors lovingly over a work of art crafted from used horseshoes. Welding is in his blood: his father, a Lebanese immigrant, was ...

Washington City Council approved a one-year test of Flock Safety license plate reader cameras last week, increasing the public surveillance capacities of local law enforcement. According to Mayor JoJo Burgess, the city police department was approached by the Atlanta-based technology company ...

Allegheny Health Network will build a new AHN Canonsburg at Southpointe II business park in Cecil Township. AHN and Highmark Health announced they are moving ahead with plans to replace the current AHN Canonsburg Hospital, established in 1904 along Medical Boulevard, with a ...