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A pair of Beaver County entrepreneurs with a devotion to Aliquippa have opened the city’s first downtown laundromat in at least 30 years.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and other regional leaders on Monday called for the right to pass gun reform laws on a local level if state officials in Harrisburg don’t enact such measures. Preemption laws prohibit cities like Pittsburgh from instituting gun regulations, but some officials are urging state leaders to

Following a string of mass shootings that have shaken the nation this year, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is urging state lawmakers to take action on gun reform.

Residents and politicians honored victims of gun violence and demanded stricter gun laws at Thursdays March For Our Lives rally in Beaver County.

Five years ago, few “would have ever thought that it would become literally impossible to build a pipeline out of this region.” Then came local opposition.

The rise of fracking in Appalachia has fed visions of turning the Ohio River Valley into a petrochemical and plastics hub. But overproduction of plastic, opposition to natural gas pipelines, and public concern about rampant plastic waste are upending those plans.


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The future Third Avenue playground in Aliquippa will be named after the late Eleanor Redd.

Aliquippas code enforcement officer and fire chief will investigate the conditions at Towne Towers after complaints.

Tenants at Aliquippa’s Towne Towers say they’ve lived in squalor for years, demanding property owners address unlivable conditions inside the building.