The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s staff recommends huge emergency rate increases for SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s downtown Youngstown customers — 145% for most of them during the six months when the steam heat is most used and 75% during the rest of the year. The report ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Chris Anderson was reelected to his second and what he says is his final four-year term as Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman. Anderson said, “When I ran four years ago, I made it clear I had no ambition to make politics my career. I wanted to build the party ...

Staff report Reporter David Skolnick, who covers politics for The Vindicator and Tribune Chronicle, won first place in the Best Government/Political Reporting category in the 2026 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists contest. The award is just the latest for Skolnick, a veteran reporter ...

ISLAMABAD — The United States and Iran have reached an initial agreement to end their war and open the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to the Gulf region and global economy more than three months since fighting began. Details of the deal were not immediately released and Iran signaled ...

NORTH JACKSON — Gary Gault has never met one of his far-removed relatives, but that didn’t diminish the warmth he felt in seeing the man who lived more than a century before him being honored. “I thought about it, and I’m mostly appreciative of what our forefathers did. I’m just ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stock markets are rallying worldwide Monday, and oil prices are easing after the United States and Iran reached a tentative deal to extend their ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to get the global flow of crude going again. The S&P 500 rose 1.5% on hopes that this ...