Pittsburgh PA

(The Center Square) - The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, chaired by Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, is celebrating a reduction in gun violence and firearm deaths across the state. The drop, the agency says, can be partially attributed to diversionary programs like those funded through the state’s Violence...

Activists pitched tents and distributed food outside Second Avenue Commons shelter last night to support unhoused people camping there ahead of a publicized clearing. The demonstration led by Our Streets Collective followed a Housing Advisory Board [HAB] meeting July 29, where outreach workers expressed frustration...

11 Investigates has learned that Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an order reinstating former Pittsburgh police officer Keith Edmonds with full back pay.

After two years of renovation, a Pittsburgh trolley celebrating the black & gold has been restored to its original beauty and will be rolled out for everyone to see.

Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership, a nonprofit community development organization, wants to more than double the residential population in the city over the next decade. In a quarterly address this week, the organization said it plans to to raise residential numbers Downtown from 7,000 to more than 15,000 by...

Eighteen employees were laid off this week from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, officials said. In an email from Martial Hebert, the dean of the school, stated that staff positions in several departments, academic support function and administrative positions had been eliminated, “including...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to nine to eighteen years in jail for trafficking in Beaver and Allegheny counties. Dennis Alexander, 29, has previously pled guilty to receiving stolen property, one count of being prohibited from possessing a firearm, and...

Despite coming from two completely different worlds, we discovered one shared goal: to make Pittsburgh safer for everyone. The post Paralyzed by police, I raged — but now I urge others to wear the badge appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source . PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the...

A local lawmaker was honored this week for her efforts to improve Pennsylvania’s waterways.

In two weeks, students from the Upper Saint Clair School District will head back to class, and this year, there are new rules when it comes to cell phones and other electronics.