On Sat. July 25, a protester was pushed twice by Pittsburgh Police officers on the Birmingham Bridge, according to a viral video on social media...

Former President Barack Obama endorsed a two Western Pennsylvania Democrats today. The list includes several Pennsylvania Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives, state House, and state Senate, and highlights recently nominated candidates Lissa Geiger Shulman (D-Hampton) and incumbent state Sen. Pam Iovino (D-Mt. Lebanon).

UPDATE — 12:50 a.m., Mon., Aug. 3: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 68* Number of today's new hospitalizations in Allegheny County: 1 Number of today's new confirmed coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 0 Number of today's total coronavirus tests in Allegheny County: 1,104...

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Video Archive Going back to school in this time of Covid-19 is Lynn's first topic today...

Pittsburgh's Four Chord Music Festival is the latest event to announce changes due to coronavirus concerns. Previously scheduled for July 11, the festival has been moved to Sat., July 17, 2021...

Another week of economic downfall during the pandemic, another local business forced to shut its doors. Brillobox, a bar at the intersection of Bloomfield and Lawrenceville, announced this morning it would be closing after 15 years...

POISE Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based foundation whose programs go towards funding equity and self-sustainment in Pittsburgh's Black communities, announced the launch of a new grant program on Thu., July 30 that would raise and distribute funds to Black community organizations. The grantmaking program, opened through the foundation’s existing Human Equity and Justice fund, has two methods of funding: the Rapid Response Mini-Grant program, which offers grants of up to $2,500 for Black-led organizations responding to an immediate crisis, and the Racial Equity Seed Grant program, which offers up to $5,000 to youth-led and intergenerational Black organizations working in the community...

Yesterday, President Donald Trump visited a Wawa gas station in King of Prussia outside of the Philadelphia area. That rekindled the classic battle over Pennsylvania-based convenience stores as many people took to social media to declare allegiance to Sheetz in protest of Trump...

More than 100 marchers took to the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh today, to protest the Trump administration's discrimination of trans people, including rollbacks of healthcare and housing policies. Protesters, led by the group TransYOUniting, also called out various healthcare providers in Pittsburgh, including UPMC, Allegheny Health Network, and others to ensure the health and safety for those in the trans community was being met...

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We may not be able to travel somewhere tropical at the moment, but we can at least pretend with the new hard kombucha collaboration from Flying Embers and reggae and dub band Stick Figure. Clocking in at 7% ABV, the alcoholic beverage combines mango and coconut flavors reminiscent of warmer weather, just like the music from Stick Figure...

Back in early June, U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Peters) criticized Pennsylvania’s coronavirus shutdown efforts, saying they went too far because he believed U.S. was not going to experience as sharp an outbreak as countries like Italy and Spain. “[Americans] should never be fooled again by the people that told us how to handle this pandemic,” he told WESA...

Tonight, a group of Bloomfield restaurants are combining their talents to put on the neighborhood’s first Support our Street spaghetti dinner. The dinner, which includes all the fixings of the classic meal – salad, garlic bread, homemade pasta with red sauce, and dessert – is a collaboration between Sausalido, Bitter Ends Garden & Luncheonette, Linea Verde Green Market, and Lot 17, all located within a few steps of each other on Liberty Avene...

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This week while taking a portrait of Nicholas Anglin, founder of Black, Young, and Educated, I was reminded of why I first started skateboarding and what it's meant to my life and career in photojournalism. Nick arrived downtown on a skateboard, something he wanted to feature in his portrait accompanying his online interview on his activism work in the city and in our "First Shot" section in this week's print issue...

This story was originally posted on Wed., July 29 and updated on Thu., July 30 with comments from Gov. Wolf. Pennsylvania state Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) issued a statement today declaring that the "unmasked community" in Pennsylvania is facing "hateful and intolerant" comments on social media and the internet...

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Video Archive Meditation is something Lynn has been trying to do more often...

Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will soon vote to go on strike following a move by management that implemented parts of a new contract without consent of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, the union representing more than 120 journalists currently on staff at the paper. The Post-Gazette is the largest newspaper in Western Pennsylvania, and its reporters were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for their coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting...

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Video Archive All this time wearing a mask, and isolating has actually made Lynn feel unmasked, due to her no longer feeling the need to wear makeup or dress up...

Jordan Corcoran feels she would have sought help for her generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder much sooner if there wasn’t such a huge stigma around mental health. That's why the Pittsburgh author is self-publishing a children’s book, Little Lucy and the Little Butterflies, on Aug. 8 in hopes of creating a more accepting world around mental health...

At first glance, the menu at El Sabor Latin Kitchen, Penn Avenue's newest spot, seems to reflect the same bill of dishes you would expect from a Latin American chain restaurant: some classic dishes, with an Americanized twist. The restaurant is run by a trio of food industry vets — Rebecca Avila; her husband, Henry; and their business partner Brian Magaritz — who all have experience in local kitchens...