The Pennsylvania Western University Council of Trustees has approved the presidential search committee’s recommendation of ...

The portico to the Washington County Courthouse is viewed ceremonially as the front door to both the city and county, but it’s been closed to the public for more than four years during multiple ...

PennWest California held its spring commencement ceremonies Saturday at the Convocation Center with diplomas conferred on 683 students. Dr. Brenda Fredette, dean of the College of Science, Technology ...

Nancy Walker is “the entire boss of all jobs in Pennsylvania.” That’s how Walker, Pennsylvania’s secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry, was introduced to fifth-graders from the Fort Cherry ...

Waynesburg University held commencement exercises Sunday during its milestone 175th anniversary year on the lawn of Miller Hall, honoring more than 350 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

Norma Ryan wasn’t just from Brownsville. She was Brownsville. Ask anyone who knew her and they’ll tell you Ryan was an unstoppable force when it came to the borough, its history and its people. On ...

Starting with silent movies and Vaudeville’s finest acts in the early 1920’s to professional touring productions to local ...

Jack Burt and a couple of his friends wanted to do something to remember their friend Stephen Breese, who was killed in a car ...

Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com Mickey Burke, Sr. sold a successful car dealership in the 1980s to start his own harness racing stable. He became one of the great trainers in the industry and ...

Edward Olivares hit his first career grand slam and Mitch Keller pitched a five-hitter to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. Olivares’ slam came ...

Caleb Patton and William Callan combined on a four-hitter as Washington clinched its first WPIAL playoff berth since 2015 with an 8-1 win over Beth-Center on Monday night in a Class 2A Section 1 game ...

Fort Cherry’s track and field team enters every meet trailing by nine points. The Rangers don’t have any pole vaulters, which takes away five points for first place, three for second and one for third ...