See more photos from the event in our online photo gallery at  https://photogallery.monvalleyindependent.com/Daily-Photos/2026-10-31 The Mon Valley Business Alliance heard from several local leaders a...

This fall, Pennsylvania American Water marks the 35th anniversary of its low-income assistance program – H2O Help to Others. Since launching in 1991 as the first water utility assistance program of it...

As much as there are immutable truths in investing and money matters — costs matter and getting started earlier is best, for example — many of the precepts we hold true as investors depend on the data...

People who dispense advice to others—financial advisers and pundits who make their opinions known—spend a lot of time and energy criticizing certain financial decisions that frankly, I can’t get too w...

Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver...

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers U.S. consumers aren’t just frustrated with high prices. They’re angry and confused about the increasingly hightech ways that restaurant chai...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans spent more than $160 billion last year using buy now, pay later plans, according to research published by Federal Reserve economists. Experts say they’re increasingly seeing ...

Travelers could be stuck paying high airfares even if oil and jet fuel prices fall, major U.S. airlines and industry analysts say. The price of jet fuel shot up after the Iran war began and retreated ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is aiming to assuage customers’ fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Walma...

MILAN (AP) — An American company building the new U.S. Consulate in Milan has agreed to pay millions to compensate foreign workers who earned less than $2 an hour. The nearly 31-million-euro settlemen...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Carbon credit financing is helping to drive Africa’s clean cooking transition by making cleaner stoves affordable for millions of low-income households. As governments introduce ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid renewed fighting and militar...

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, KAITLYN HUAMANI and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test r...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. gas prices jumped back to $4 a gallon on average Monday, as Washington’s latest fighting with Iran renews strain on the flow of fuel worldwide. According to motor club AAA, the na...

NEW YORK (AP) — At the grocery store, Jamie Corum sets a two-minute timer for her 10-yearold daughter to look around. Then she resets it to 10 minutes so her daughter can choose one thing to buy, maki...

In the world of financial planning, we often treat retirement accounts as static buckets. But for the savvy investor, an IRA has a life cycle that must evolve as they do. From a teen’s first summer jo...

FEATURE IMPACT Nearly 60% of small business owners seek financing each year, acc ording to the Federal Reserve’s 2025 Small Business Credit Survey, but on ly about 2 in 5 secure the full amount they r...