Emergency personnel believe they were able to contain a fuel oil leak on Saturday that escaped from a house in Arona that had been burglarized. The house apparently belongs to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Little Sewickley Creek, one of Western Pennsylvania's most precious commodities, which runs about 7.8 miles through seven communities, from Sewickley Heights to the Ohio River in Edgeworth, is highly unusual for Western Pennsylvania because it has managed to avoid industrial pollution that fouled most streams and rivers in the region.
The new year is beginning in a fashion similar to how the old one ended when it comes to boating fatalities in Pennsylvania, and that's not a good thing.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- The limestone streams of central Pennsylvania famously pour from the ground at precisely the cool temperatures favorable to trout. But on a chilly January mountain morning on Spring Creek, the brown trout waited for some warming sunlight to break through the clouds.
The watershed protection project is one of 73 throughout the state intended to improve watersheds by addressing such environmental concerns as stream bank restoration.
