Rick Shrum

“If you told me a year ago that I'd be doing this, I wouldn't have believed you,” she said, smiling. There was a lot of research ahead, tons of preparation and a formidable amount of uncertainty.

It is a sparkling project, to be sure. The North Strabane-based company, the nation's largest privately held building materials supplier, has announced it is sponsoring the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree for the third year in a row.

The decision to expand is benefiting many Southwestern Pennsylvania businesses – and this region – according to a recent report from the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. The report, “The Impact of Regional Business Expansion: Why ‘Growing Our Own’ Matters,” was produced by the conference’s Strategy and Research team. Allegheny Conference, a Pittsburgh-based civic leadership […]

An active activist, Bower-Bjornson is a Southwestern Pennsylvania field organizer with Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that was founded before the Environmental Protection Agency, before Earth Day and before the modern Clean Air Act.

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Coal, an energy source that once heated numerous homes across Western Pennsylvania, remains abundant underground. But it continues to lose prominence on the energy grid. Solar and wind power have surpassed coal as sources of electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. EIA said this has occurred not only in the United States, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had drilled the site in Mount Pleasant Township […]

Known formally as West Virginia University Health System, the Morgantown-based health-care provider has signed a lease for all four stories of the structure. The Fountainhead sits at the entrance to the mixed-use park, at 555 Southpointe Blvd.

A hardy donation from the Hardy family is being used to enhance hospitality education at West Virginia University – and to, perhaps, ultimately boost the hospitality industry as well.

Pennsylvania farmers, youth and the animals they are raising are preparing to put on a show. The 109th Pennsylvania Farm Show will kick off Friday at the Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. The annual event will run Jan. 4 to 11 at the complex, located at 2300 N. Cameron St. Visitpa touts […]