Today, Gov. Tom Wolf announced new mitigation efforts as a response to the recent spike in coronavirus cases across the state. The spike has been mainly led by a large increase of cases in Southwestern Pennsylvania, particularly Allegheny County...

The race for Pennsylvania state House District 28 is off to an early start. Mailers have been sent out to the North Hills district, and include some egregious distortions that attack Democratic candidate Emily Skopov...

Update: 3:15 p.m. on Wed., July 15: Between July 8 and July 15, Port Authority reported that 10 employees have contracted COVID-19, bringing the total to 27 employees that have tested positive since the start of the pandemic. The recent batch of cases have come from employees in the East Liberty garage, the South Hills Junction, and the West Mifflin Garage...

About a month ago, Tanisha Long created the Facebook group Black Lives Matter Pittsburgh and SW Pa (BLMSWPA). With almost 7,000 members, the page is a local, unofficial Black Lives Matter group that represents Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas...

UPDATE — 12:10 p.m., Wed., July 14: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 246* Number of today's new hospitalizations in Allegheny County: 1 Number of today's new confirmed coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 5 Number of today's total coronavirus tests in Allegheny County: 2,944...

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Video Archive Pittsburgh is losing a bunch of reporters as more are taking the company buyout from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette...

Sweet in your ears, just like a fruit salad in your mouth...

The soft opening for Happy Day Dessert Factory, a new North Side ice cream shop, was set for March 16. If you’re keeping tabs on the pandemic, that means 20-year-old Galen Moorer Jr., owner of the shop, planned to launch his business one day after restaurants were ordered to close their dining rooms...

When Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Josh Bell watched former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick take a knee in protest over police brutality against Black Americans, he saw how loud and powerful the backlash became, and how it eventually led to Kaepernick not playing football in the NFL again. Bell believed Kaepernick was doing the right thing, he said in a “Being Black in Baseball and America” panel hosted by the MLB in June, and he thought that maybe it was time for players in all sports leagues to join Kaepernick in taking a public stand against the injustices around the world...

Thu., July 16 (livestream) Billy Strings. 8 p.m...

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian, you have a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as "echoes and emptiness and shadow." I believe this aspect of your repertoire will be especially active and available to you in the coming weeks...

If Chris Frantz decided to write a nasty, acerbic tell-all memoir, no one would blame him. In Remain in Love (St. Martin’s), the former Talking Heads drummer recounts more than a few incidents when the band’s lead singer, David Byrne, exhibited boorish behavior, including taking credits for lyrics that Frantz wrote and telling a film crew that Frantz and his wife, bassist Tina Weymouth, were difficult to work with...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, designers, artists, and sewing hobbyists have taken to their sewing machines to fill the demand of masks for the public to wear. Pittsburgh City Paper is taking a look behind the scenes and highlighting local mask makers...

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania state Senate passed a bill that would potentially provide hundreds of millions in tax credits to petrochemical facilities and others that refine natural gas into products like plastic pellets or fertilizer. The bill, HB 732, passed the state Senate by a 40-9 vote...

The economic struggling of the pandemic has affected nearly every industry, including the arts community, who doesn't necessarily receive the same bailouts or donations as other organizations. The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, a hub for eclectic and diverse live performances in a pre-COVID world, is joining together with six other arts organizations for Hotline Ring, a collective fundraiser on Thu., July 16, from 5-11 p.m...

Pittsburgh is a city with no shortage of historical sites to commemorate. At the same time, many remnants of the past have been torn down or forgotten...

After consideration, Pittsburgh VegFest has decided to cancel its 2020 event. The vegan food festival was scheduled to take place Sat., Aug. 1...

After shutting down for a few months, the Market Square Farmers Market returns on Thu., July 16 fro m 10 a.m.-2 p.m...

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Video Archive Lynn is back, and discussing the past four days with Susan...

A continuously growing number of protesters marched through East Liberty on Monday, calling for the planned reoccupying of the Zone 5 police station to be stopped. What started as a group of about 200 people nearly doubled by the time they made their way past Target, down to Negley Avenue, through neighborhood streets, and ending up back where they started, at what is now Pittsburgh Fire Bureau Station no. 8...