CDC reports surge in antibiotic-resistant stomach bug
A common stomach bug is becoming harder to treat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, adding to the growing list of infections that can withstand several lines of antibiotics. A CDC report released this month found “extensively drug-resistant” bacteria caused about 9% of shigellosis cases in 2023, up...
Table for who? Some restaurants see drop-off in diners during NFL Draft
With the 2026 NFL Draft taking place only a few blocks away, Peppi’s sandwich shop on Pittsburgh’s North Side simplified its menu, stocked up on ingredients and brought in extra staff ahead of what owner Jeff Trebac expected to be a hectic three days. Business on Thursday — the draft’s...
Drugmaker to seek FDA approval of Ozempic pill for diabetic kids
Novo Nordisk said Thursday it will seek federal approval to expand the use of its Ozempic and Rybelsus pills to kids and teenagers with Type 2 diabetes. The Danish drugmaker expects to file its request with the Food and Drug Administration in the second half of this year. The agency’s...
Entrepreneurs, influencers seek their big break at the 2026 NFL Draft
Three friends from Michigan wandered Pittsburgh’s North Side on Thursday, bringing their inebriation innovation to the masses. Eric Peterson, Justin Riedl and Nick McClain were on the hunt around noon for tailgaters outside the 2026 NFL Draft Experience willing to drop $25 on a football-shaped “beer bong.” The plastic pigskin...
Cutting-edge Astrobotic rocket engine could fuel more efficient moon missions
Pittsburgh-based aerospace company Astrobotic has made strides in developing an ultra-efficient rocket engine that could allow more cargo to reach the moon. In a test last month at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, Astrobotic’s 5,000-pound rotating detonation engine prototype fired for five minutes straight. Several other companies have...
Mark Cuban weighs in on Kamala Harris, health care, before Pittsburgh visit
Billionaire and Mt. Lebanon native Mark Cuban didn’t have to think twice Tuesday when asked if he’d support another presidential run by former Vice President Kamala Harris. “No,” he replied to a Politico reporter during the online news outlet’s annual health care summit in Washington, D.C. Moments earlier, he shut...
$1.3B UPMC Presbyterian Hospital tower construction enters home stretch
Sunlight streams in from almost every angle of UPMC’s new glass-paneled hospital tower in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. Each of the 636 patient rooms has floor-to-ceiling windows, incorporating research showing the therapeutic effects of a connection with nature. The respite areas for workers to collect their thoughts during tough days follow...
How the rich shrink their tax burden
With the IRS expecting 164 million individual income tax returns this year, there’s a common conception that rich people pay less tax in the U.S. than what many would consider fair. It’s a sentiment that shows up in polling on Americans’ attitudes about the federal tax system and animates a...
4,000 Band-Aids, 1,400 water bottles, 1 mobile clinic: Allegheny Health Network prepares for NFL Draft
Cuts, scrapes, bruises, dehydration, allergic reactions — Allegheny Health Network expects to see it all when thousands of people pack Downtown Pittsburgh and the North Shore in less than two weeks for the 2026 NFL Draft. The system’s mobile clinic will park in Market Square for the duration of the...
Billions in research funding survive Trump crackdown, benefiting Pitt, CMU
The Trump administration is accepting legal defeat in its effort to limit critical funding for research institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, after its window to petition to the U.S. Supreme Court closed this week. In February 2025, the National Institutes of Health announced a cap...
New Carnegie Mellon program pairs start-up entrepreneurs with investors
Founders of fledgling tech startups at Carnegie Mellon University are getting a glimpse inside the minds of venture capitalists and a shot at $240 million in potential investments. The university’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship recently launched its Deep Tech Venture-Ready Program, a six-month course in wooing venture capitalists followed by...
URA moves ahead with $200M tax diversion for Downtown Pittsburgh projects
The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority board voted Thursday to earmark up to $200 million in property taxes over 40 years to revitalize Downtown, but the plan is far from final. The entities that would forfeit control of prospective tax revenue — Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Public Schools and Allegheny County — still...
AHN radiologist turns ‘The Pitt’ into teaching tool on TikTok
Bathed in the blue light of a radiology reading room, Dr. Matthew Hartman and three of his medical students spent Wednesday morning analyzing X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds at West Penn Hospital. The images being reviewed by the class were real, but Hartman finds fiction can be just as powerful...
South Korean firm restarts steel pipe plant in The Waterfront
A South Korean company restarted the former Ascent Industries steel pipe and tube manufacturing plant in The Waterfront development last week after nearly three years offline. Nexteel has brought the massive, bright blue warehouse in Munhall back to life, according to a LinkedIn post from its American division that offered...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit eyes more limited changes after scrapping bus network overhaul
Pittsburgh Regional Transit is almost done planning its “Bus Line Refresh,” a series of adjustments to the network that would eliminate 14 routes, add nine and change stops along dozens more. Ridership plummeted at the start of the covid-19 pandemic and has not fully recovered. Recognizing this, Pittsburgh Regional Transit...
Duquesne Light asks feds to lower costs customers pay to power plants
Duquesne Light is making the case that power plants are paid too much for the promise of providing electricity, a cost set through auctions run by grid operator PJM Interconnection — and shouldered entirely by
consumers. PJM’s process allows power plants to bid on contracts to supply electricity if called...
General Electric spinoff GE Vernova spends $70M on Rostraver warehouse
GE Vernova, formerly a part of General Electric, spent $70 million to buy a distribution center in Rostraver last month, adding to the Massachusetts-based power generation equipment manufacturer’s strong Pennsylvania presence. Westmoreland County property records show GE Vernova subsidiary GE Renewables Grid LLC purchased the more than 700,000-square-foot property from...
1 killed, 2 injured by wrong-way crash along Route 40 in Washington County
A wrong-way crash Saturday in Donegal Township left one man dead and two people seriously injured. The Washington County Coroner’s Office says Daniel Pasqualucci, 41, of Donegal Township died after his sedan collided head-on with an SUV near the intersection of Route 40 and Lake Road. Pasqualucci was driving east...
Immigrant rights activist sets off on 8-day march to ICE detention center
With the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Pittsburgh’s South Side as a backdrop, immigrant rights advocate Jaime Martinez implored community members Sunday morning to see the humanity in their foreign-born neighbors. “Dignity is not conditional,” said Martinez, who founded activist group Frontline Dignity last year. “It is not...
ICE says 13 arrested at PennDOT drivers’ license center in Armstrong County
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 13 people Friday at a PennDOT driver’s license center near Kittanning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Jason Koontz, a DHS spokesman, said ICE was called by East Franklin police after “concerned citizens reported an abnormally large amount of individuals” outside the...
Here are the planned stops for immigrant rights activist’s 8-day walk to ICE detention center
Jaime Martinez’s eight-day walk from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Pittsburgh’s South Side to the agency’s detention center in Clearfield County will take him through Monroeville, Apollo and Indiana. The march envisioned by Martinez, executive director of immigrant advocacy group Frontline Dignity, will start about 8 a.m....
Kids make quick work of Easter egg hunt at Delmont’s Newhouse Park
Hundreds of kids took part in what resembled a feeding frenzy as much as an Easter egg hunt Saturday at Delmont’s Newhouse Park. Easter-themed crafts started at 11:30 a.m. followed by a hunt at noon in the warm spring weather. The Delmont Recreation Committee puts on the event each year,...
Pittsburgh man gets 15 years in prison for distributing child porn
A Pittsburgh man convicted on child pornography charges has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Justin Hughes, 45, pleaded guilty in November to one count of distributing child pornography. As part of the plea agreement, federal prosecutors dropped three additional counts related to sexual depictions of minors. In...
Astrobotic’s latest lunar lander on track for 2026 launch
Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic is closing in on the launch of its Griffin-1 lander, a 15-footwide spacecraft that will deliver two state-of-the-art rovers to the moon. CEO John Thornton said Wednesday the lander is nearing completion and should be ready for takeoff on a SpaceX rocket by the end of the year....
Pittsburgh biotech company Lipella Pharmaceuticals files for bankruptcy protection
Lipella Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday following more than two decades of developing medications that never made it to market. The drugmaker is winding down operations just 10 months after being delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange, which choked off access to...
