Allegheny County COVID-19 information as of Aug. 2 Number of new positive cases in Allegheny County: 320 (three-day total) Number of today's new coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 0...

Step aside giant rubber duck, there’s another oversized household item coming to Pittsburgh, and it’s reminding people to wash their hands. On Wed., Aug. 4, the world's biggest soap bottle, made by the Washington, D.C.-based beauty company Soapbox, will appear in the parking lot of the Settler's Ridge Market District in Robinson for the Soapbox Giving Tour...

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has asked the Republican-controlled Legislature to make an early return to Harrisburg to extend the opioid disaster emergency declaration. In a letter sent Friday to Senate and House leadership, Wolf said he plans to renew the declaration for the 15th time and asked lawmakers to reconvene by Aug. 26 to extend the emergency declaration with its recently expanded powers...

A bright, cheery love song, “Home” is perfect for summer barbecues and dances on your back porch. Performed by HIGHCLEAR, a band composed of vocalist Jordan Schulz and guitarist Zach Miller, “Home” is a simple arrangement that results in big sound and beautiful harmonies...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats are in a last-minute scramble to possibly extend federal legal protections against eviction that expired on July 31. The end of the eviction moratorium would jeopardize housing security for millions of Americans who are struggling both to pay their rent and to access billions of dollars in slow-moving federal rental assistance funds...

Video Archive "Killing old people didn't get them to do the right thing...

In light of climbing rates of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania, state health officials on Thursday urged Pennsylvanians to get vaccinated. Pennsylvania exceeded 1,000 daily COVID-19 cases for the first time since May — the state reported 1,088 new cases of COVID-19 on July 29...

Creating a vegan, plant-based beauty routine can be hard — and expensive. Finding deodorants, make-up, and body care in big box stores can prove challenging, but there are smaller boutiques and salons in Pittsburgh that hand-make their own vegan products...

My best friend growing up had a treehouse. This was in Upstate New York, mind you, where the treehouse was all of 100 feet from his back door...

Pennsylvania has more than 300,000 acres of state parks where people can hike, picnic, camp, fish, hunt, and more, but a new study from Outdoorsy shows the Keystone State is one of the lowest performers in terms of how much outdoor recreation contributes to the state's economy. According to the study, outdoor recreation contributes 1.6% of Pennsylvania’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to 2.2% nationally...

After voting to join The United Steelworkers union in 2019, tech workers at a Google contractor in Bakery Square ratified their first ever contract with HCL America, Inc. The three-year contract protects about 65 Pittsburgh-based workers. HCL is an independent contractor company that hires tech workers who complete work for Google, who has offices in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood...

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Women Who Rock Spon Con The Women Who Rock Benefit Concert is one of Pittsburgh’s most unique and empowering events of the year...

On July 28, the CEO of health care monolith UPMC, Jeffrey Romoff, announced he is retiring and will spend the next few months helping UPMC transition its leadership. Romoff, who is 75, said in a press release that he is “proud to have led UPMC during a time of exceptional growth” and that the company is “now in a well-earned period of stability and success, having overcome challenges and grown into a fully integrated health care system.”

Thu., July 29 Inside Out: Hot Mass + Friends Carnegie Museum of Art 4-8 p.m. This week's first Inside Out event will feature Hot Mass, the popping after-hours party now brought to you during the daytime...

Poor conditions regarding air quality in Pittsburgh like pollution from out-of-state wildfires, fireworks, and record-breaking exceedances of certain gases are pushing 2021 to be the worst years in recent memory. Air quality advocates at Group Against Smog and Pollution reported on July 27 that H2S concentrations were so “sky-high” that by mid morning, exceedances of the state’s 24-hour average standard were guaranteed...

Pittsburgh music act Some Faith recently released “Prey To My Grief,” a sonic, haunting track. Some Faith, composed of Indigo Baloch on vocals and Brian Sikes as producer, stepped onto the music scene in 2020 with their song “The Pain Has A Purpose.” They release an EP in October 2020, and “Prey To My Grief” continues the band's trend of spooky pop highlighted by intense, emotional lyrics...

Video Archive Lynn is talking with Tribune-Review writer Paula Reed Ward about a Pittsburgh-area woman, Kimberly Andrews, who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail, while handcuffed, and was shoved from behind by an officer into an elevator and then tasered...

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Liz Conway, the President of goodblend, Pennsylvania, a cannabis growing, processing and retail company, is a dynamic woman with a mission to bring cannabis wellness to Pennsylvania. We sat down to ask her what inspired her to join a cannabis company, what her vision is for goodblend, and how goodblend is poised to bring new jobs to the area...

Last year, hundreds of nurses at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood formed a labor union in hopes of pressuring the hospital into delivering investments for the recruitment and retention of nurses. This push followed in the steps of nursing unions across the state in asking for better staffing ratios and working conditions for nurses, who have borne the brunt of work, stress, and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic...

President Joe Biden pitched his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh earlier this spring, but since then, the proposal has hit some roadblocks in Congress. Some Congressional leaders are insisting on keeping the infrastructure package a bipartisan affair, but one area where Democrats and Republicans can’t agree is the percentage of funding given to roads and bridges versus given to public transportation...