Saturday mostly dry, with wildfire smoke returning to Pittsburgh area overnight
Sunshine is back in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday afternoon, but wildfire smoke returns overnight.
Union members rally in Downtown Pittsburgh, say a building’s janitorial positions were eliminated
Union members rallied Friday outside the former Alcoa building in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County DA calls for ‘independent oversight’ of pension fund
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala is calling for “independent oversight” of the county’s pension fund.
Woman accused of throwing her mother down steps in Verona
A woman is accused of throwing her mother down a flight of steps Saturday in Verona.
Pittsburgh police searching for missing 13-year-old boy
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police is searching for a missing 13-year-old boy.
Pittsburgh police sergeant pleads guilty to DUI charge in Plum
A Pittsburgh police sergeant has pleaded guilty to his second driving-under-the-influence charge in the past five years. Tariq Jamal-Francis, 45, of Plum, will serve six months’ probation after borough police said they found him asleep at the wheel of an SUV that was sitting at an angle with its driver’s side wheels re
Pirates’ Bounty: Pittsburgh’s Seafood for Your Crew
Ahoy! Looking for tasty seafood for you and your pirate crew? Pittsburgh has a pirates’ bounty of places with all kinds of seafood. Set sail towards these restaurants with your family crew!. J.W. Hall’s Steak & Seafood Inn | Aliquippa. Since its opening in 1981, the family-owned J.W....
Winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $1.5M sold at Western Pennsylvania Giant Eagle
A $1.5 million scratch-off lottery ticket was sold at a Giant Eagle in Western Pennsylvania. The Giant Eagle on Towne Center Drive in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, will earn a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. $1,500,000 Super Star is a $30 game that offers top prizes of $1.5...
Pittsburgh to see roads close this weekend for OpenStreetsPGH
As Pittsburgh faces detours and slow traffic with the I-376 Parkway East closure , another set of roads is set to be temporarily blocked. On July 26, OpenStreetsPGH, hosted by Bike Pittsburgh, will shut down areas in the Strip District and Lawrenceville that typically see busy traffic to allow cyclists, runners and wal
Pittsburgh author tracks comeback of large mammals in the Eastern U.S.
As a writer about the natural world, Andrew Moore has a pretty good idea what animals belong where. But several years back, a news item took him by surprise. Elk, it read, were being reintroduced to southern West Virginia. Wait, Moore thought: Reintroduced? These massive ungulates — mature bulls can...
