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Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation plans to offer voluntary buyouts to two of its reporters and programming changes could be forthcoming along with staffing adjustments. PCBC owns WESA-FM, the local NPR affiliate, and WYEP. The employees are represented by SAG-AFTRA, a national union for broadcasters. In a letter sent to members,...

Pittsburgh City Council is considering a proposed $45 million, 10-year contract for city police to buy and upgrade body and vehicle cameras, Tasers and related equipment and software. The proposed contract would be with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Axon Enterprise. Pittsburgh police now use Axon for their body-worn cameras and tasers, but...

UPMC is partnering with a Florida pharmaceutical company to build a manufacturing center in Oakland to create novel medicines that could be a new way to treat cancer and other diseases. The Pittsburgh health care system is collaborating with PharmaLogic Holdings Corp. to develop radiopharmaceuticals, an emerging field in health...

Summer officially began Wednesday, and the Carnegie Science Center brought back a little snow to the forecast. Families showed up to celebrate the annual Snowball Day at the Carnegie Science Center. Some had saved their snowballs to launch into the Ohio River with large slingshot devices. This past winter was...

Pittsburgh city government employees are now eligible to receive free bike-share memberships. City Council on Wednesday approved a proposal to offer employees the memberships through Bike Share Pittsburgh’s POGOH, which offers traditional and electric-assist bikes in many —but not all — areas of the city. Councilman Bobby Wilson, D-North Side,...

Pittsburgh City Council members expressed concerns Wednesday over a proposal that would put city taxpayers on the hook for $62.5 million in bond repayments to support Urban Redevelopment Authority affordable housing programs. Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration and the URA have provided few specifics on how the money would be spent,...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, June 21: Two-sport star to be honored by Pittsburgh A former star Pitt basketball player who went on to play in the NFL will be honored Saturday by the City of Pittsburgh with a celebration and the naming...

College students trying to understand what precise combination of courses they need to graduate generally take it on faith that if they follow a campus adviser’s instructions, they will get their degree. But what if the adviser gets it wrong? What if they needed more courses than they were told...

After the Taylor Swift pandemonium last weekend, more music lovers are going to extreme lengths to see their favorite performers on the North Shore. Fans were lined up outside of Stage AE early Tuesday morning in hopes of scoring a spot close to the stage to watch boygenius Tuesday evening....

A new federal grant is hoping to create a new future for Pittsburgh, one that contrasts with the region’s past as a “smoky city” caused by pollution from the heyday of the steel industry. U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, announced last week that Carnegie Mellon University has received a $3...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Tuesday identified the man whose body was pulled out of the Allegheny River as Charles Palermo. Palermo, 67, whose hometown is unknown, was pulled from the river near Washington’s Landing in Troy Hill on Monday morning. He was pronounced dead at 7:07 a.m.,...

Ally Cunha has “no clue” where she’ll stay after Tuesday night. For the last several weeks, the 18-year-old has been sleeping at the Smithfield United Church of Christ shelter. The shelter was scheduled to close on Tuesday. “It’s difficult, but we’ll figure it out,” she said as she sat outside...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, June 20: Pittsburgh police nab suspect in homicide A Pittsburgh man is jailed in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood in April 2021, police said. Riyad Christian, 24, was arrested in...

The Western Pennsylvania Juneteenth celebration was held Monday at Point State Park. Juneteenth is a federal holiday recognizing the emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States. It became a national holiday in 2021. Juneteenth marks the final abolition of slavery, which happened in Galveston, Texas, two months...

For Antwon Rose’s mother, Juneteenth brings sadness instead of celebration. Rose, a Black teenager and Woodland Hills High School student just weeks shy of his 18th birthday, was shot and killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer on June 19, 2018, five years ago today. June 19 is also Juneteenth,...

The Juneteenth celebration in Pittsburgh will conclude with fireworks Monday night after weeks of questions surrounding security at Point State Park for the fireworks show, officials said. “We expect the fireworks to happen tonight. Everything should be in place,” said Wesley Robinson, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation...

A youth anti-violence program in Pittsburgh Public Schools has received more than $2 million in state funding to expand. The Safe Passages program, operated by Pittsburgh-based Operation Better Block, was launched as a pilot at Perry Traditional Academy in the city’s North Side. The grant money from the Pennsylvania Commission...

The University of Pittsburgh and 1Hood Media, collaborated to host “This Thing We Call Hip-Hop,” an event celebrating Juneteenth and the 50th anniversary of the emergence of the popular music genre. The Friday event included music, trivia, and a panel discussion with Pittsburgh native artists including Fedd The God and...

On Friday, after hearing three weeks of testimony and deliberating for less than five hours, the jury in the federal case of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting found the defendant guilty of all 63 counts. Attorneys for Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin admitted that he entered the Tree of...

Will pop superstar Taylor Swift’s attendance record at Acrisure Stadium “Stay Stay Stay” and prove to be as “Untouchable” as it seems? Swift set an attendance record for Acrisure Stadium Saturday night, according to stadium officials, with the crowd of 73,117 the largest ever for the venue. Country star Garth...

Saturday’s Juneteenth parade in Pittsburgh included all of the usual features that highlight a parade — marching bands, music, police cars, horses and candy thrown to kids. But on this day, one individual in particular outshined all other trappings of the event. Former Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. James H. Harvey...

There’s no one else who can make Acrisure Stadium shake quite so hard as Taylor Swift did Friday night for the first of two Pittsburgh shows on her nationwide Eras Tour. The reviews from other tour stops were indeed true: Swift’s concert is a multihour (3½ hours on Friday) adven­ture....

Hundreds of people came out for the beginning of the Western Pennsylvania Juneteenth Homecoming Celebration Friday at Point State Park in Pittsburgh. Rappers Hurricane Chris and KRS-One performed, as the event also featured many small businesses selling their merchandise. Arrested Development had been scheduled to perform but had to cancel...