Jake’s Rocks has become known in recent years as an amazing area to mountain bike, and rightfully so with its 30 plus miles of mountain bike trails, but there are plenty of reasons to visit this rock ...

Imagine 11,000 basketballs shooting out of a doorway — that’s the visual scale of 11,000 cubic feet of water flowing through ...

The town serves as a gateway to the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania’s only national forest, which encompasses over ...

Neill Andritz keeps a close eye on water levels and speeds on the Kiski River to see if it’s safe for his business, The River ...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County intends to cross the Youghiogheny River. The agency’s board on Wednesday ...

These include certain permits related to air quality, earth disturbance, dam construction and water obstruction ... into a stream with a bunch of pollutants.” News from WESA Allegheny County finances ...

Pennsylvania's Sunday hunting ban soon could become a thing of the past. House Bill 1431, which would fully repeal the ban, passed the state Senate this week by a 34-16 vote. Introduced by Rep. Mandy ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward in 2025 with plans to enhance inland waterway transportation through three main ...

Tom Tatum is the outdoors columnist for MediaNews Group. You can reach him at [email protected].

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Hollidaysburg couple Margaret and Michael Strueber recently hosted Sylvan Eidolon D’Nyx, the recently crowned winner of the U.S. Mondioring Level 1 Championship. A five-year-old Belgian Malinois, Nyx, ...

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