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Writer and photographer Tim Palmer has a new book of essays and photographs called Watching the River Run: A Photographic ...
WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania — The steep climb in the truck up from the Monongahela River to the entrance of the Mon Valley ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black flies are ...
Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill’s request to discharge treated waste into the Monongahela River was met with opposition during a hearing Thursday at Rostraver Central Fire Department social hall.
30, 2019 3:28 p.m. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission confirmed Monday that an invasive species, the northern snakehead fish, was recently caught in the Monongahela River. It is the first ...
The clanks of an anvil will transport people to the early industrial era Saturday for the 38th annual Hammer-In Festival in ...
The closure of the Pyrex cookware plant in Charleroi brings to an end 132 years of manufacturing at that facility, but the ...
The Jones & Laughlin steel works in the city of Pittsburgh was among the first major steel operations to fall.
The landfill has applied for a permit to discharge treated leachate from its facility into the Monongahela River. According to the DEP, leachate is moisture produced by waste in a landfill and is ...
On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...
Oursler and his staff at the Mon Valley Unemployment Committee have shown over the past 40 years what it means to really care about workers—on the job and off.