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Sep 2, 2025
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Aug 29, 2025
All eyes have been on the Texas legislature as it worked through redistricting its congressional districts. While much of the national coverage rightfully...
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Aug 25, 2025
Deep in the earth's crust, the toxic substance rises in the air as miners drill into massive layers of rock. As they work the controls of the big machines,...
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Aug 12, 2025
Rescue efforts gave way to the early stages of reconstruction and investigation at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works late Monday when the final employee...
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Aug 11, 2025
Five years ago, it cost Lacey McCoy $300 a month to feed himself and his two grandchildren. His monthly grocery bill is now double that. Since...
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Aug 5, 2025
It was a panic button. On July 22, PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 65 million Americans across 13 states and the District of Columbia, released...
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Aug 4, 2025
The latest blast from Donald Trump’s tariff hurricane came on Friday. The White House published a long list of countries whose products will now...
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Aug 4, 2025
Sitting just feet apart on a stage at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this month, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Dave McCormick made their...
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Jul 31, 2025
I appreciated the Energy and Innovation Summit’s visionary focus on why our nation needs to quickly increase development of a world-class artificial...
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Jul 29, 2025
The bell rings as the last few students find their seats and jockey for the remaining open power outlets at their feet. A student-issued Chromebook left...
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Jul 28, 2025
With just weeks left in a grueling Democratic primary election that could shape Pittsburgh’s future, mayoral challenger Corey O’Connor’s...
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Jul 21, 2025
In Allegheny County alone, 372 active farms account for 27,412 acres of production, with farm-related revenues equating to $13.2 million. And 95% remain...
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Jul 18, 2025
Over the past several years, Butler Area middle schoolers have used an interactive program to help them learn vocabulary for social studies, science and...
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Jul 17, 2025
While Tuesday’s groundbreaking Pittsburgh summit on artificial intelligence and energy was unquestionably driven by Republican Sen. Dave McCormick,...
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Jul 16, 2025
Sen. Dave McCormick showcased Pennsylvania in an unprecedented artificial intelligence and energy summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday, gathering...
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Jul 14, 2025
Prominently displayed on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus is a large fence used as a billboard to communicate the feelings of students via hand...
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Jul 14, 2025
This week, leaders from government, industry, and academia are gathering in Pittsburgh to confront a pressing question: How can the United States sustain...
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Jul 7, 2025
Many struggling Pennsylvania families, health care providers, food banks and state and local leaders are bracing for the impacts of President Donald Trump’s...
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Jul 7, 2025
Pennsylvania’s hospitals and health care providers could be among the biggest losers under President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill,...
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Jul 4, 2025
WASHINGTON -– Deaths on Pennsylvania’s highways have started to decline again, but safety advocates worry that the progress may be short-lived. They...
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Jul 3, 2025
Two days after Pennsylvania missed a constitutionally-mandated June 30 state budget deadline for the fourth year in a row, contentious debate over a major...
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Jun 19, 2025
In the string of blue-collar Mon Valley towns where the U.S. Steel-Nippon deal will have the greatest impact, news of the sale transcended politics —...
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Jun 16, 2025
Come January, a new mayor will take office and inherit a decades-old puzzle with far-reaching implications for the future of a city on the brink of financial...
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Jun 12, 2025
Donald Trump recently celebrated a planned partnership between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel expected to bring a $14 billion investment to U.S. Steel over...
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Jun 2, 2025
Last Thursday, I stood in the Oval Office with my House colleagues Mike Kelly and Dan Meuser. President Trump had invited us to discuss the proposed partnership...
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May 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is coming to the Pittsburgh region on Friday to hold a rally at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin. He announced the...
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May 23, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” now making its way through a Republican-controlled Congress would...
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May 20, 2025
Nippon Steel has upped its investment pledge into Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, according to a report Monday by Reuters. The Japanese steelmaker now plans...
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May 19, 2025
A budget on the brink. A crisis in affordable housing. A Democratic Party fighting over how to win back voters — and using Pittsburgh as its battleground. As...
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May 16, 2025
Legalization of adult-use cannabis in Pennsylvania is no longer a matter of if, it is when. And when that day comes, the state should not be scrambling...
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May 15, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania made something abundantly clear almost 18 months ago — regardless of his enthusiastic...
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May 12, 2025
For months on the campaign trail, Mayor Ed Gainey has trumpeted claims of aggressively attacking Pittsburgh’s affordable housing crisis in ways no...
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May 12, 2025
While some supporters and campaign donors say they’ve witnessed a rightward shift in Sen. John Fetterman, many with ties to the Democrat in Braddock,...
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May 9, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman faces increased criticism and questions about his actions in recent months after former staffers have reportedly...
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May 7, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania on Tuesday denounced as a “hit piece” a recent New York Magazine article in which...
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May 2, 2025
Running a successful campaign for office often requires the use of a dirty word in politics: coordination. Candidates and staffers have to be on the same...
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Apr 30, 2025
A man in the South Side Slopes died after being electrocuted by a live wire Tuesday evening after severe storms blew through the region, leaving widespread...
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Apr 28, 2025
Addressing Congress last month, President Donald Trump summed up his path to an American “golden age” as “swift and unrelenting...
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Apr 25, 2025
As politicians, labor organizations and community groups continue to toss their support behind the Democratic candidates for Pittsburgh’s next mayor,...
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Apr 21, 2025
Catholic leaders from across the Pittsburgh region are reacting to the death of Pope Francis on Monday morning. The pope, who was 88, made an appearance...
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Apr 21, 2025
Harrisburg. Butler. Manhattan. San Francisco. Mackinac Island. From small cities, to major metropolises, to family vacation homes, political violence...
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Apr 18, 2025
Two weeks ago, I visited Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Residence with my oldest daughter and four of her young children. We stood in the State...
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Apr 16, 2025
George Washington could have held onto power for the rest of his life. Instead, he decided to forgo a third term in the presidency and return to his beloved...
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Apr 16, 2025
HARRISBURG — Fire and water restoration trucks parked Tuesday at the sprawling brick Governor’s Residence posed a highly visible reminder of...
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Apr 15, 2025
A stone-faced Cody Balmer remained quiet outside of answering questions as a district judge in Harrisburg deemed the suspected arsonist too great a danger...
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Apr 14, 2025
Just as the steel that once built Pittsburgh’s economy reshaped the world, AI is now the new industrial backbone — powering breakthroughs across...
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Apr 11, 2025
The 17th District drew national attention from the political parties in 2024. Not now.
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Apr 10, 2025
For the third straight month, Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor has outraised Mayor Ed Gainey in his bid for mayor — this time with...
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Apr 4, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” was followed by a day of realization, concern, plenty of celebration and, more than anything,...
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Mar 31, 2025
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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Mar 28, 2025
A veteran journalist who has covered Washington for the Post-Gazette, with a focus on Western Pennsylvania, begins sharing his insights about how the federal government really works.
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Mar 25, 2025
A spate of recent reports, including one from the Cleveland Federal Reserve, have increased awareness of a Pittsburgh fact: We are in deep trouble economically...
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Mar 21, 2025
The bakery and the bank and other businesses are gone, vacant storefronts are numerous, and as owner Carlitez Thompson cuts hair and talks inside the Royal...
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Mar 20, 2025
One of President Donald Trump’s most impactful moves during his first term was applying 25% tariffs on nearly all steel imports. As a result, the...
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Mar 12, 2025
In his address to Congress on March 4, President Trump celebrated investments that businesses from Japan, South Korea and other countries are making in...
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Mar 10, 2025
WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump's torrent of major policy changes sparking protests from the House chamber floor to Downtown Pittsburgh,...
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Mar 10, 2025
Whether politics played a role in Christopher Ragland’s decision to withdraw his nomination for Pittsburgh police chief last week — and retire...
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Feb 19, 2025
Dave Sunday will speak on a panel focusing on law and order.
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Feb 13, 2025
For nearly five years, Jorge Toledo learned to live in captivity in a Venezuelan prison. For 16 days in a San Antonio military hospital, he worked to come...
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Feb 10, 2025
Ed Gainey’s ascension to Pittsburgh mayor was significant for a number of reasons. He was the first Black man elected to the job in the city’s...
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Feb 7, 2025
Pennsylvania’s senior senator John Fetterman, the Braddock Democrat first elected in 2022, built his political career on disrupting tired debates...
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Feb 7, 2025
Pittsburgh has 10,000 abandoned houses and empty lots, of which 1300 have reported code violations, and restoring these properties to the tax rolls would...
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Feb 4, 2025
As climate change intensifies and natural disasters increase — like hurricanes not only in Florida but in Appalachia and multiple wild fires driven...
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Feb 4, 2025
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing his third state budget to lawmakers Tuesday. He faces several challenges for the budget plan, including a...
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Feb 3, 2025
I’m leaving two jobs that I genuinely enjoy: Allegheny County Council councilman and chairman of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County. Those...
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Jan 30, 2025
NIH grants have a huge impact on the region, which receives hundreds of millions in funding.
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Jan 24, 2025
Retired Pittsburgh Police officer Tony Moreno announced Thursday that he will once again be running for mayor as a Republican. He announced his campaign...
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Jan 21, 2025
Stacy Garrity recently issued an urgent warning: This year’s budget will determine the commonwealth’s economic future — so lawmakers...
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Jan 21, 2025
Whenever Matt Gergely would visit the Lampert’s Market along Eden Park Boulevard in McKeesport to buy some beef jerky, other patrons at the longtime...
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Jan 10, 2025
Once again, our Legislature gathers in Harrisburg for the start of another two-year session. Lawmakers tout the bills they hope to pass – and then...
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Jan 9, 2025
The odorless gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the nation — and the leading cause among non-smokers.
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Jan 8, 2025
President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, but with Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel suing the Biden administration...
Sep 2, 2025