An immigrant from Brazil who was taken into custody by federal immigration officials, despite having a daughter in the midst of treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, appears to be headed back to his family in Sewickley.
1st Home Allegheny is getting $3 million to help low- and moderate-income families buy houses.
The program, financed by the county’s Residential Finance Authority, used $2.6 million last year to get 56 buyers into their first homes across 34 municipalities.
The legislation looks to expand services to more children and increase wages for Head Start workers. The 60-year-old, federally-funded program provides health and social and education services for some 800,000 children from birth to 5 years old.
As many as 700,000 people are expected to swarm Downtown and the North Shore for the 2026 NFL Draft this month. But businesses and institutions across Pittsburgh are hoping visitors will venture farther from the main event and spread the wealth across the city.
Three additional town halls will be held online in the coming days:
Arsenal Elementary on April 14
Miller Elementary on April 21
Manchester Elementary on April 28
President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday it wants to fund research on microplastics and pharmaceuticals in public drinking water and examine their potential health impacts. The proposal could help environmental regulators create future drinking water restrictions.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority on Thursday voted to approve a plan that would take a portion of tax revenue from new developments in Downtown, the Strip District and North Shore to pay for public infrastructure improvements in the central business district.
Pittsburgh will get a bonus free summer concert in Point State Park courtesy of Pennsylvania’s official America250 celebration.
Rock band Third Eye Blind and hip-hop artist Nelly were named Thursday as co-headliners for the June 27 concert in Point State Park.
About 70 people testified in front of DEP air quality experts at Penn State Beaver’s auditorium about the future of Shell’s ethane cracker in Monaca. The massive plant, which turns natural gas into plastic, began operations in 2022. Shell received a $1.65B tax credit, the largest in state history.
Starting this fall, Pennsylvania will join 29 other states in requiring students to take a standalone personal finance course before they graduate.
The state’s new academic standards include lessons on financial goal-setting, types of income, developing a budget, saving and investing.
Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously to formally ban police and city staff from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.
Councilors put forward a multi-bill package at the end of March in response to ongoing concerns about ICE operations across the region.
State and local leaders met in the halls of Westinghouse Academy this week to tour the high school’s career and technical education facilities. Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and minority chair of the state’s Senate Education Committee, Sen. Lindsey Williams heard from students enrolled in programs as well.
President Trump is holding a press conference at 1 p.m., his first since the U.S. and Israel launched a war with Iran more than a month ago.
The press conference comes days after Trump formally addressed the nation from the White House last week and said the conflict would end "shortly."
The scorecard looked at state policies covering areas such as whether building codes are uniform across the state, if homeowners associations are allowed to restrict solar adoption, permit fees, and what criteria is used to judge systems.
Many have called Pittsburgh a shot-and-beer kind of town (which is true), but the city offers a number of excellent cocktail bars, breweries and places to grab a drink filled with personality.
Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don’t know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt.
The Whiskey Island salt mine helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, snowier-than-usual winter has driven demand.
Pittsburgh is full of great places to eat. From traditional diners that showcase the city's characters to fine dining establishments, there's no shortage of delicious options around town.
The Allegheny County jail last week began paying people who work while they're incarcerated in the facility, nearly half a decade after county leaders first floated the idea.
Nippon Steel ranked second from the bottom of 18 companies surveyed by SteelWatch, a European-based environmental group that looked at how well these firms are transitioning away from coal.
Councilors put forward the multi-bill package last week in response to ongoing concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations across the region. In a meeting Wednesday morning, one portion of the legislative package received council’s preliminary approval.
As morning traffic whizzed by the U.S. Steel Tower Tuesday morning, a small group of Christians were gathered on the sidewalk reading scripture in honor of Holy Week. But the group stood outside of UPMC’s headquarters to mark another occasion: Trans Day of Visibility.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for NPR and PBS is unlawful and unenforceable. The judge said the First Amendment right to free speech “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.”
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has charged six Pittsburgh-area residents with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, obstructing justice, and conspiring to obstruct justice in relation to an attack on a young Jewish man in Oakland in late September 2024.
Butler County saw the most percentage growth at 0.44% while Fayette and Greene counties saw the greatest declines, losing 0.76% and 0.75%, respectively.
Though Allegheny County saw the largest influx of people moving from abroad — 2,485 — it was not enough to offset the number of people who moved.
Candidates for office in Pennsylvania are using AI tools to generate parody images of their rivals, create campaign materials, and answer questionnaires.
Protesters gathered along Grant Street in front of Pittsburgh’s City-County building Downtown for a third round of the nationwide No Kings protests Saturday. More than 15,000 people were in attendance, according to city officials.
Point Park is leveraging state support to give its students free, healthier meal options.
It's received nearly $70,000 through the commonwealth’s Hunger-Free Campus grant program to expand its food pantry for students and staff, host monthly produce pop-up markets and launch a campus garden.
The latest measure, which was approved on a mostly partisan 104-95 vote, would see the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour rise gradually to $15 an hour in 2029.
It would jump to $11 an hour in 2027, another two dollars in 2028, and then $15 in 2029.
“Do not drive that week,” said Pittsburgh Regional Transit CEO Katharine Kelleman. “Let us get you there.”
Draft organizers on Wednesday unveiled a transportation plan that includes road closures, enhanced transit routes, and information for navigating Downtown and the North Shore on Draft days.
