(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) Yesterday, Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), who is Co-Chair of the Navy and Marine Corps Caucus and an Iraq War veteran was joined by Senator Angus King (I-ME) to announce the introduction of the Thomas M. Conway Veterans Access to Resources in the Workplace Act. This legislation will help more of America’s veterans get healthcare and benefits that they have earned through their service by requiring a poster of veterans’ resources and benefits in the workplace. The bipartisan, bicameral bill was named in memory of former United Steelworkers International President and Air Force veteran, the late Tom Conway, who dedicated his life fighting for Steelworkers, veterans, and their families. Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) and Co-Chair of the Navy and Marine Corps Caucus, Congressman Nick LaLota (R-NY-01) are also co-sponsors of the bill. According to a release in Washington D.C. yesterday from Deluzio’s office, the Thomas M. Conway Veterans Access to Resources in the Workplace Act would specifically:

• Require the Department of Labor and Department of Veterans Affairs to create a printable notice containing state and federal veterans’ resources for employers to post in the workplace.  
  • The notice will include information on the Veterans Crisis Line, information on how to apply for VA benefits, and state benefits available to veterans. 
• Require both government and non-government employers with over 50 employees to post this information prominently in the workplace.

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tomorrow, weather permitting, single-lane and shoulder restrictions on I-376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Vanport and Chippewa Townships will occur. From 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. tomorrow, sign inspection work conducted by crews from the Mackin Engineering Group, Inc. and the Sofis Company, Inc. requiring a single-lane and shoulder restriction will occur as needed in the following locations:

• I-376 in each direction at the Beaver/Midland (Exits 38/38A/38B) interchange
• Westbound I-376 at the Chippewa (Exit 31) exit
• Southbound Route 51 (Constitution Boulevard) at the I-376 interchange at the Chippewa (Exit 31) exit

(File Photo of the Fort Pitt Tunnel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tomorrow, weather permitting. a lane restriction in the eastbound (inbound) Fort Pitt Tunnel in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. From 10 P.M. to 4 A.M., a single lane restriction will occur in the eastbound (inbound) Fort Pitt Tunnel as PennDOT crews will conduct ceiling inspection work there.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette logo is displayed on the newspaper’s Pittsburgh office Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial losses.

Block Communications Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3. The paper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and says on its website the average paid circulation is 83,000.

A couple dozen union members returned to work at the Post-Gazette in November after a three-year strike.

More than five years ago, the newspaper declared it had reached a bargaining impasse with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and unilaterally imposed terms and conditions of employment on those workers. The paper was later found to have bargained in bad faith by making offers that were not intended to help reach a deal and by declaring an impasse prematurely.

The announcement that Block was shutting it down came on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court declined the PG Publishing Co. Inc.’s emergency appeal to halt an National Labor Relations Board order that forced it to abide by health care coverage policies in an expired union contract.

Andrew Goldstein, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, said the paper’s journalists have a long history of award-winning work.

“Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” Goldstein said. The union said employees were notified in a video on Zoom in which company officials did not speak live.

The Post-Gazette said Block Communications has lost hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades in operating the paper, and the company said it deemed “continued cash losses at this scale no longer sustainable.”

The Block family said in a statement it was “proud of the service the Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century.”

A phone message seeking comment was left Wednesday at Block Communications headquarters in Toledo, Ohio.

The paper traces its roots to 1786, when the Pittsburgh Gazette began as a four-page weekly, and became a leading advocate for the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. It went through a series of mastheads and owners before 1927, when Paul Block obtained the paper and named it the Post-Gazette.

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at 10 a.m. at the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver. One of them was when Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning brought up during the Commissioners’ report of the work session that the Commissioners “have no direct relations or oversight” with Brighton Rehab and Wellness Center, but they “have been working with the state on various issues related to the residents of Brighton Rehab.” Commissioner Manning addressed this because he received a lot of questions over the holidays about the facility that is located off of Dutch Ridge Road, which was sold in the late part of December to New York based Blue Sky Basin. In other business, during the Department Head Report of the work session, Pamela Hupp, the First Deputy Treasurer for Beaver County Treasurer Sandie Egley stated that the taxes for the county will be going out this Friday and taxes will start to be collected this Monday. Beaver County Controller Maria Longo also mentioned during that same section a few things about the quarterly funding report in the county for the end of 2025, which included about $76 million in for revenue. This was also the first work session for the Commissioners in 2026 and the first one since Beaver County Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp announced at the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit meeting yesterday that the Commissioners will be committing $1 million to a project to repair New Horizon School. These are county funds and the county will contribute $250,000 per year over the course of four years. Camp told Beaver County Radio that the money will come from reserve funds and he assured that it will not affect taxpayers.

(File Photo of a Health Insurance Paper)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania is now set to receive over $193 million in 2026 for rural health care through a new federal program, which is designed to blunt the impact of impending Medicaid cuts and support medical services in communities. In 2025, Congress decided to inject $50 billion in the struggling rural health systems of the nation as part of the “big, beautiful” bill. The submission from Pennsylvania requested a total of $1 billion, or $200 million per year.   

(Photo Courtesy of Gavin Thunberg)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) The Hopewelll Fire Department, Station 92 was called because a structure fire occurred in Aliquippa yesterday afternoon just before 3 p.m. at a home on Valley View Drive. A male caller reported that his house was on fire and that smoke could be seen. Smoke was in the basement and further investigation found that there was a furnace issue in relation to this incident. The smoke was vented by firefighters before they returned to service.