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On this episode of the Food Podcast presented by Clearview Federal Credit Union, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank takes the show on the road with an episode at Harvest Valley Farms in Gibsonia. On Monday, more than 20 food bank staff members and volunteers took up an offer from Art...

Allegheny Health Network will be conducting free cancer screenings at its facilities in Wexford and Butler. Screening for breast, lung, skin and prostate cancer will be conducted Aug. 21 at the AHN Cancer Institute on Hollywood Drive in Butler. Screenings for breast and lung cancer will take place at AHN’s...

Authorities have identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Homestead late Sunday morning. The county medical examiner’s office identified the victim as Anthony Colizza, 65, of Homestead. Allegheny County Police were notified of the shooting in the 1100 block of West Street shortly before 11 a.m.. First responders found...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a Beaver County man was found dead in the trunk of his car in Moon. Officers were called to the former Texaco station at 8000 University Blvd. around 12:40 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a body found inside a vehicle. Allegheny County police said...

The Hatfield Connector, the final portion of the Central Lawrenceville Neighborway, has been completed in under three months. City officials announced Tuesday that the shared-use pedestrian and bike path closes a gap between 50th and 51st streets. Neighborways are low-traffic streets built for walkers, cyclists and other non-vehicular traffic, according...

Discussion during the first day of a public hearing regarding a potential Amazon distribution center in Churchill revolved mostly around traffic, a concern voiced by many residents for months. Texas-based Hillwood Development has proposed building a 2.6 million-square-foot distribution and logistics facility for Amazon at the former site of the...

A large-scale effort by Carnegie Mellon University to preserve and promote the history of robotics has launched its first online exhibition. The Robotics Project began in 2019 when a team of archivists at Carnegie Mellon were investigating ways of preserving the history of robotics at the university, said Katherine Barbera,...

Calling him a leader and instigator who went to Washington, D.C., ready for a fight, a federal magistrate judge ordered a Shaler substitute teacher who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to be held in custody pending trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said on Tuesday that Robert...

A Port Authority of Allegheny County bus driver was taken to UPMC McKeesport on Tuesday afternoon after being involved in a crash at the city’s Pacific and Rebecca streets, the transit agency said. Port Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said a car ran a stop sign at the intersection and struck...

An infant reported missing Tuesday morning who was last seen the day before was found safe in North Versailles, according to Allegheny County Police. Eight-month-old Royalty Lomax was reported missing early Tuesday. Detectives said in a news release issued around 11 a.m. that she had been found. Authorities did not...

If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. A recent Tribune-Review story about a 1922 Sears mail-order home in McCandless that has most of its original features intact drew scores of letters and comments from Pittsburgh area...

Allegheny County Police are seeking the public’s help in their search for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 65-year-old man in Homestead late Sunday morning. County police were notified of a shooting in the 1100 block of West Street shortly before 11 a.m., according to authorities. First responders...

Penn Hills Mayor Pauline Calabrese on Monday called for the resignation of police Chief Howard Burton over the hiring of a police officer under investigation in the shooting death of Romir Talley in Wilkinsburg. Calabrese said it is time for accountability in the hiring of former Wilkinsburg Officer Robert Gowans...

Another round of flushing and testing is needed before the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County can deem the water supply safe for residents of McKeesport’s Lower 10th Ward, officials said Monday afternoon. Residents in the ward have been without water since early Saturday morning when officials became concerned firefighting foam...

Six historic buildings in Allegheny County have received Historic Preservation Tax Credits as part an effort to help preserve and revitalize the sites. The latest recipients of the tax credits were announced Friday by Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Executive...

A large tree fell onto a car and knocked down some power lines in Ross Monday afternoon. Police said the incident took place around 2 p.m. along Reis Run Road. Duquesne Light crews were called to make repairs to the lines. The road is closed from Rochester Road to Brookmeade...

A shooting Monday morning in Wilkinsburg left one woman dead, according to Allegheny County Police. Police received a 911 call just before 8 a.m. for a shooting on Princeton Boulevard, authorities said. Inside a home on the street, first responders found a 26-year-woman who had been shot. The Allegheny County...

Residents in McKeesport’s Lower 10th Ward could be without water for at least a week, according to the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County. Those living in the ward have been advised not to use tap water since Friday when fire tore through McKeesport Auto Body on Rebecca Street. Fire suppressing...

A man was shot in the leg during a home invasion in Reserve Township Saturday night, police said. Allegheny County dispatchers were notified of a home invasion in the 2700 block of Mount Troy Road shortly before 10:20 p.m. Reports indicated that one person was shot during the incident. First...

On the 52nd anniversary of the day Apollo 11 blasted off and headed for its historic moon landing, Astrobotic has taken a “giant leap” toward its own moon landing. The Pittsburgh-based aerospace company has announced the autonomous rover MoonRanger it partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to create, has passed another...

Western Pennsylvanians who don’t want to see their glass garbage end up in a landfill can bring it to a roving bin scheduled to rotate across Allegheny County’s parks. The county teamed up with the Pennsylvania Resources Council for its 2021 Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program. They plan six-day stops...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County is asking residents in the Lower 10th Ward of McKeesport to not use the tap water after firefighting foam may have been sucked into a fire hydrant as crews battled a blaze at McKeesport Auto Body on Friday night. According to an advisory posted...

Work to repair the deck of a bridge along Wildwood Road in McCandless will result in traffic disruptions next week, PennDOT announced. The project involves concrete deck repairs on Wildwood Road Bridge, which traverses Pine Creek, according to the state transportation agency. Single-lane restrictions will occur at the bridge from...