(File Photo: Source for Photo: Yuengling Black and Tan cans are stacked in the warehouse of the D.G. Yuengling & Son Brewery Mill Creek plant on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Lindsey Shuey/Republican-Herald via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lehigh, PA) State Representative Ana T. Tiburcio, (D-Lehigh), recently introduced a bill in Harrisburg to make it easier for small Pennsylvania craft breweries to get up and running. She is co-sponsoring the bill with Reps. Rob Matzie, (D-Beaver), Steve Samuelson, (D-Northampton) and Dan Deasy, (D-Allegheny). The malt beverage tax credit program allows breweries that invest in their facility or equipment to claim a tax credit that is equal to the amount of capital expenditures they incurred, up to a maximum of $200,000. These tax credits can currently be carried forward for just three years and credits may not be sold to other Pennsylvania breweries. This legislation from Tiburcio would extend the carry forward period of the malt beverage tax credit to five years and let tax credit recipients sell their credits to other Pennsylvania breweries. That bill will be referred to the House Liquor Control Committee for consideration.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hershey, PA) Forty-three-year-old Carrie Sortor and sixty-one-year-old Stephen Wilson, both of Lititz, Pennsylvania, were charged on Sunday by Derry Township Police with one count each of a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of children after police expressed that their seventeen-month-old child went through a wooden barrier perimeter fence and put a hand in a metal fence of the wolf enclosure at ZooAmerica in Hershey on Saturday. The area was restricted and police stated in a news release that evidence showed they both walked about twenty-five to thirty feet away from the child to a seating area with benches and appeared to be paying attention to their cellphones. The child suffered minor injuries in the incident because according to a statement from the zoo, a wolf approached “and made contact with the child’s hand,” and the wolf’s response “is consistent with natural animal behavior, and was not a sign of aggression.”

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release today that fifty-seven-year-old Monique Brada of Cranberry Township was not charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Allegheny County on March 20th, 2026. Brada was driving on I-79 North in Marshall Township when a rock rolled onto the road from a rocky bank which was along the north-bound travel lanes. She did not stop in time before hitting it with her vehicle at 6:28 p.m. There were no reported injuries.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Posted on Facebook on April 6th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Fayette County, PA) Laurel Caverns in Fayette County was unveiled yesterday as Pennsylvania’s newest state park. The unique trait about this park is that it is the state’s first underground state park. It boasts 4 miles of cave passages, as well as over 400 acres aboveground. The park also adjoins thousands of acres of Forbes State Forest and State Game Lands 138, and its nearby other Laurel Highlands attractions like Ohiopyle and Nemacolin. It will open on Wednesday, April 22nd.

(File Photo of a City of Aliquippa Police Department Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) The Aliquippa Police Department was dispatched at approximately 7:18 p.m. yesterday to the area of the 300 block of Superior Avenue, Valley Terrace C Building, for a report of shots fired. When officers arrived, they conducted a thorough canvass of the area. Multiple shell casings were located in front of the Valley Terrace B Building during the investigation. No injuries have been reported in connection with this incident. The investigation into it is still ongoing and anyone with information related to it should call the Aliquippa Police Department at 724-378-8000. 

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Curtis Walsh, Beaver County Radio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The largest part of the barge that broke free from a construction site on the Beaver River is still stuck on the dam near the Eastvale Bridge in Beaver Falls. A smaller piece broke free yesterday morning and is now stuck on top of the dam near the Beaver Falls – New Brighton Bridge, on the New Brighton side of the river. The barge initially got stuck on Thursday and according to the PA Turnpike, one of its contractors, Fay S&B, has been developing a plan for how to remove the barges from the river.  The Turnpike noted that the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority is in charge of the dam structure and will assess any potential damage after the barges are removed.  

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Gavin Thunberg)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver Falls, PA) The City of Beaver Falls Fire Department was dispatched to Geneva College just before midnight yesterday after security reported smoke from a building and a fire in one of the laboratories of said building. Heavy smoke was reported by the arriving units. The fire was extinguished very quickly and departments returned about an hour later 

(File Photo Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are 22 cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at $4.171 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gas exceeded $4/gallon this past week for the first time since August of 2022. That average of $4.11 is 12 cents more than last week and 80 cents more than a month ago. Crude oil prices have also been surging and they have surpassed $100/barrel, as the conflict in the Middle East continues and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. The report states that the average amount for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania at this time a year ago was around $3.63 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of regular gas here in Beaver County is $4.19. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are the average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various Pennsylvania areas:

$4.180      Altoona
$4.190      Beaver
$4.097      Bradford
$4.041      Brookville
$4.185      Butler
$4.189      Clarion
$4.153      DuBois
$4.161      Erie
$4.180      Greensburg
$4.198      Indiana
$4.199      Jeannette
$4.186      Kittanning
$4.202      Latrobe
$4.215      Meadville
$4.197      Mercer
$4.157      New Castle
$4.167      New Kensington
$4.185      Oil City
$4.168      Pittsburgh
$4.124      Sharon
$4.168      Uniontown
$4.217      Warren
$4.173      Washington

(File Photo of the Primanti Bros. Location in Monaca)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Primanti Bros. has now closed two of its Pittsburgh-area locations permanently, citing a “shift in consumer behavior” over the past few years. A Primanti Bros. spokesperson confirmed to WTAE about the closures yesterday. However, those locations will become new restaurants. The Monroeville location will be opening as a Thorn Hill Tap-House and the North Versailles location will become Smash Pub, a sister restaurant to The Smash Shack on Pittsburgh’s North Side.