Allegheny and Westmoreland counties on Tuesday saw the most additional covid cases in about a month, according to state and local health departments. Source:…
Posts published in “Pennsylvania”
Covid numbers hitting lows not seen since early November
By lowber on March 8, 2021
Pennsylvania’s latest covid-19 data, released Monday by the state’s Department of Health, carries on the trend of lower numbers — in new cases, hospitalizations and…
Pennsylvania casinos saw revenue drop by $759 million in 2020, state reports
By lowber on January 22, 2021
Pennsylvania casinos saw total revenues decrease by $759 million in 2020, a year plagued by the coronavirus pandemic that forced the properties to shutter for…
As covid crisis deepens, opioid crisis continues in the background
By lowber on January 21, 2021
As President Joe Biden settles into office amid the coronavirus pandemic, nonprofits and organizations battling drug addiction are urging the new administration not to lose…
Pandemic exposes weakness in Pa. counties without health departments, like Westmoreland
By lowber on January 16, 2021
When Kim Ward was sworn in as a Westmoreland County commissioner in 2008, one of her first questions was: Who oversees the county’s health department?…
Westmoreland County Democrats flock to the GOP in week of D.C. riot, bucking Pa. trend
By lowber on January 15, 2021
Nowhere else in Pennsylvania saw more Democratic voters switch their party allegiances to Republican than in Westmoreland County during the first week of January. …
New look, taste for Westmoreland-born Old Overholt, the country’s oldest whiskey brand
By lowber on December 19, 2020
After 210 years of continuous production, America’s oldest whiskey brand — Westmoreland County-born Old Overholt — is undergoing a transformation. Source: The Tribune-Review
When will election results be known for Westmoreland, Allegheny, Pennsylvania?
By lowber on November 1, 2020
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recalled when he won office in 2014 and reelection four years later, media reports unofficially declared him the victor within minutes…
Along Mariner East pipelines, secrecy and a patchwork of emergency plans leave many at risk and in the dark
By lowber on October 18, 2020
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/the Patriot-News and other news organizations across Pennsylvania. Sign up…
Joe Biden Express rolls into Western Pennsylvania for whistle stop train tour
By lowber on September 30, 2020
An Amtrak passenger train carrying Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his campaign contingent rolled from Ohio into Western Pennsylvania on Wednesday, a day after…