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Expertise or bias? Fitzgerald names three ex-police to oversight board

Stacey Hawthorne was one of four appointed to the Independent Police Review Board by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald. (Photo by Lilly Kubit/PublicSource) Allegheny County’s police...

Updated: Developer skeptical of Hill surcharge proposal as key church calls for affordable housing

"Demolition of Bethel AME Church, Wylie Avenue and Elm Street, Lower Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1957." (Photo by Charles 'Teenie' Harris/Carnegie Museum...

Am I next? If you don’t have a body like mine, that question might not haunt you.

Ashanti McLaurin stands for a portrait on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, at the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) The day before...

Awareness or security? A recent sexual assault at Pitt reveals the complexities of tackling campus sexual violence

People walk down a stairwell in the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Oakland. The tower of classrooms and...

Historic Black church may return to Lower Hill after half century of displacement

"Demolition of Bethel AME Church, Wylie Avenue and Elm Street, Lower Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1957." (Photo by Charles 'Teenie' Harris/Carnegie Museum...

URA sells off land for affordable housing, approves first-time homebuyer plan

Houses in Bloomfield stand before AHN’s West Penn Hospital as photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) OwnPGH will allow homebuyers below...

‘We can’t continue as we are’: Wilkinsburg to vote on starting process that could transform borough government

From left to right, commission candidates Keywanda Ballard-Battle, Kim Kaplan and Jacquet Kehm at a press conference in Wilkinsburg Tuesday. (Photo by Charlie Wolfson/PublicSource) With...

‘How I can make a change’: Youth programs are helping the next generation halt the cycle of gun violence

After-school programs and youth initiatives across Pittsburgh aim to give young people the tools for coping with, and defusing, violence.   by Amelia Winger, PublicSource   Accomplished.    That’s how...

When a Jeep smashed me and my bicycle, it flattened my life’s mission – and then came the traffic ticket

Laura "Lolly" Walsh stands near a sign at the intersection of Ellsworth and Morewood avenues in Shadyside on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. This is...

These teens are fighting to change the rhetoric and reality around youth violence in the Pittsburgh area

(Photos by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource. Photo illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource) by Jourdan Hicks, PublicSource Young people have not been shielded from the spike of gun violence in...

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