A festival to promote outdoor safety and raise awareness about the Conemaugh River reservoir, bordering Indiana and Westmoreland counties, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Conemaugh ...

After drenching rain soaked the region this week, the Conemaugh River Lake near Saltsburg was 57 feet above normal on Thursday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

• Anglers are enjoying plenty of action at Conemaugh River Lake, bringing in an assortment of catches, including smallmouth bass, yellow perch, walleye and a handful of freshwater drum. Bass are ...

They understood the 2-mile-long, 1-mile-deep lake was at its breaking point. "By 3 in the afternoon, those that had gathered to try to stop the inevitable watched in horror as the dam gave way ...

Across what was once Lake Conemaugh, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club remarkably still stands. So do the elaborate and ornate cottages once owned by industrial America’s famed robber barons.

Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year provides a unique opportunity to learn about a historic flood while enjoying 14 miles of scenic recreation along the Little Conemaugh River. The Path of the ...

It was on another holiday, Memorial Day, 1889, that the faulty dike holding back Lake Conemaugh gave way at the resort, after heavy rains. Cottages overlooking mudflats were the least of the problems.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — As we approach its 135th anniversary, we continue to look back on the events leading up to the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. The remains of the former canal basin in ...

Across what was once Lake Conemaugh, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club remarkably still stands. So do the elaborate and ornate cottages once owned by industrial America's famed robber barons.

Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year provides a unique opportunity to learn about a historic flood while enjoying 14 miles of scenic recreation along the Little Conemaugh River. The Path of the ...

SOUTH FORK, Pennsylvania — One hundred and thirty-two years later, the truth of what happened here in May 1889 is still difficult to put into words. Standing on the very soil where Col. Elias ...