Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...

Foreign-born residents comprise only about 1% of the population in Cambria, Somerset and Bedford counties. That rate, among a combined 250,000 people, is well behind the state average of 7.4% and the ...

So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood ... At 3 p.m. on May 31, 1889, flood waters broke through the South Fork Dam, towering twelve miles away and 300 ft.

On Memorial Day 1889, a storm pushed Pennsylvania’s South Fork Dam past the breaking point. What followed was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Homelessness is on a continuous rise in Pennsylvania, according to the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development, but one organization is working to ...

THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD 1926 re-creates one of the greatest disasters of the late 19th Century in the USA. In May of 1889 over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania died as a result of the dam ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — The annual spring craft and vendor show was held this weekend at the Masonic Temple in Johnstown, along with a special fundraiser to benefit Nardecchia Spay and Neuter.

On Saturday at 11:21 a.m. an updated flood watch was released by the National Weather Service in effect until Sunday at 8 a.m. for Westmoreland Ridges and Fayette Ridges as well as Allegheny ...

The warning had been issued for Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. "The heavy rain has ended, and flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. However, ponding of water may remain in ...

AND SOME OF US. A LOT OF US TOMORROW EVENING. FOR NOW, RAIN STARTING TO BUILD BACK IN ON RADAR. NORTH OF THE CITY. SPECIFICALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF ABOUT I-80. A COUPLE OF WET SNOWFLAKES MAY BE ...