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‘The ball is rolling now.’ Braddock and West End teens share violence intervention initiatives they’ll roll out this summer.

Maraya Hutchinson presents her Block Party project idea at a West End POWER event in the Chartiers City neighborhood. (Photo by Clare Sheedy/PublicSource) The initiatives...

How a Pittsburgh family made sure that being unhoused wouldn’t mean losing out on school

Aerie'Onna Johnson, 10, and her mother, Ashlee Johnson, sit together on Monday, April 10, 2023, at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Allegheny in Central Northside....

Section 8 sold short: Pittsburgh housing authority’s mishandling of vouchers repels landlords, imperils tenants

Left: Kendall Pelling, left, Rising Tide Partners’s executive director, and Dee Levy, one of the organization’s Section 8 clients, stand outside of Levy’s Hazelwood...

Allegheny exec candidates promise to shed more light on county government

(Photo illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource) A PublicSource survey of candidates showed nearly unanimous agreement on reforms to boost transparency in the county’s multibillion dollar administration. by...

Student loan forgiveness faces an uncertain future. What does that mean for Pittsburghers?

Paloma Del Toro, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, sits for a portrait in Baker Hall on March 23, 2023. Del Toro started at...

Pitt’s chancellor-elect talks police relations, unionization and controversial speakers on campus after vote

Chancellor-Elect Joan Gamble. (Courtesy of Aimee Obidzinski/University of Pittsburgh) Joan Gabel, president and chief executive of the University of Minnesota system and Twin Cities campus,...

Complaints against Pittsburgh police dropped in 2022, and this year could set a long-term tone

Police shut down Fifth Avenue for hours outside of Central Catholic High School after false alarms of active shooter events there and at nearby...

PPS school board candidates take united stand on most topics at pre-primary forum

  Five candidates discussed school closures, staffing issues and charter schools. by Lajja Mistry, PublicSource Three to four of the nine seats on the Pittsburgh Public Schools...

Teen girls work to address their mental health crisis, and tell Pittsburgh: ‘Our voices matter.’

From left, Westinghouse Academy students Amber Taylor, 18, of Wilkinsburg, Miyah Hall, 16, of Lincoln-Lemington, Sanai Banks, 16, of North Homewood, and La’Niya Brown,...

School active shooter alerts in Pittsburgh and elsewhere a hoax, but the anxiety is real

Oakland Catholic students are escorted from St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland following reports of an active-shooter event at two area high schools. Police confirmed...

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