 The area is served by the Valley News Dispatch, a daily newspaper serving the Alle-Kiski Valley.Until the mid-1980s, this newspaper maintained a branch sales office in Parks Township, across the river from Vandergrift.It was also served by its own local newspaper, The News-Citizen, which maintained an office on Walnut Street, started as a daily newspaper, before reducing to a weekly publication by the mid-1980s.