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Organizations that receive funding through Pittsburgh’s Stop the Violence grant program will now be required to provide additional reporting on how they spend their money under legislation approved this week by City Council. The measure is meant to provide greater accountability and transparency in how the tax dollars are used,...

The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is looking to team up with the city to launch an ambassador program that would bring community service representatives to Downtown Pittsburgh seven days a week. Pittsburgh would dedicate $600,000 to the Golden Triangle Ambassador program under City Council legislation introduced this week. The program would...

The start of a new baseball season brings hope, beginning with the first pitch. The annual tradition of fans gathering at PNC Park for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ home opener inspired North Side resident Mark T. Fatla to think of the people over the years making their way to the ballpark,...

It’s Easter and Passover weekend, as well as the Pirates first home game of the season. Here are some entertaining ways to spend it. A dog-gone good time The Doggie Easter Egg Hunt is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the dog park and north lot at...

The Olympia Park Shelter House in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington will once again serve as a community space. The building, which closed after a fire in 2009, will house athletic associations and community and private events. City leaders unveiled the newly renovated space this week. “This facility has been transformed and...

Pittsburgh leaders say they are ramping up efforts to make Downtown cleaner and safer. “Downtown Pittsburgh is the heart and soul of our city,” Mayor Ed Gainey said during a news conference Thursday. The city has increased the number of cleaning crews working Downtown by about 20%, Gainey said. Officials...

Pittsburgh EMS Chief Ron Romano’s final day in uniform — March 31 — was nearly 14 years to the day since a gunman fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers while they were responding to a domestic dispute in Stanton Heights. Romano still remembers the sense of urgency to get to...

Duquesne Light plans to install electric vehicle charging stations at two lots owned by the city of Pittsburgh. Charging stations for four electric cars will be placed at a city-owned lot at 6112 Kirkwood St., which the Pittsburgh Parking Authority leases from the city. The DC fast chargers will allow...

A man sought for a shooting that happened in February on the North Side has been arrested. Jermaine Lamont Colwell, 46, is being detained in the Allegheny County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bond. He is charged with attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault and gun violations after a person...

Hazmat crews continued to clean up a caustic liquid leak at the U.S. Steel Tower early Thursday morning. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said Pittsburgh fire, EMS and police all responded to the 600 block of Grant Street after the leak was first reported around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. Several area roads...

A University of Pittsburgh cardiologist has filed a new civil complaint in federal court alleging retaliation and discrimination against him over affirmative action views expressed in a paper published and later retracted by the Journal of the American Heart Association. Norman C. Wang is on the faculty of Pitt’s School...

An Allegheny County judge on Wednesday said he will not allow the district attorney’s office to seat a death-penalty qualified jury because of the ongoing moratorium on capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Judge Anthony M. Mariani wrote in a 10-page opinion that compelling prospective jurors to sit through the “grueling and...

A Beechview woman charged Wednesday in connection with an attempted robbery and shooting is accused of staging at least four other robberies in two municipalities in the past month, court records show. Pittsburgh police charged Nyzjayah Majors, 20, with aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit robbery, both felonies. She also...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified two Pittsburghers who were fatally shot in Homewood last month. Damion Nance, 46, and Janell Ross, 47, were found dead on Frankstown Avenue late March 24, according to the medical examiner. Police said they responded to the area around 11:50 p.m. after...

Baseball and hot dogs go together like peanuts and Cracker Jack — except when it comes to Good Friday. Catholics attending the Pirates’ home opener on Friday — one of the holiest days of the year for Catholics — still must abstain from eating meat, according to the Pittsburgh Diocese....

Pittsburgh City Council has reached a tentative contract agreement with city police that includes pay increases and a new system for disciplining officers. The union representing Pittsburgh’s police officers ratified the proposed contract last month, with 572 votes in favor of the deal and only 13 against it. The contract...

PPG struck a deal for the Pittsburgh-based company’s Glidden brand to become the primary paint brand at the world’s largest retailer. The 3-year agreement expands PPG’s relationship with Walmart. Glidden products will include a new line of Grab-n-Go ready-to-use paint as well as tint-able paints and Olympic wood stain products...

Pittsburgh police said a man told them he was lured to a Beechview home and shot early Wednesday. Officers in Zone 6 responded about 1 a.m. to the 1500 block of Belasco Avenue after multiple calls came in for shots fired. At the scene, police said they found a man...

Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice is arbitrarily seeking the death penalty against their client but failed to do the same in other attempted mass shooting cases in which Jewish and Latino people...

The Rev. Sheldon Stoudemire would have wanted to help the man who shot him. And he would have forgiven him, too. That’s why on Monday, during an emotional hearing in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, that’s what Stoudemire’s family did on his behalf. Gerald Adams, 22, of Braddock pleaded guilty...

The City of Pittsburgh has reached a $275,000 settlement with a group of protesters who said they were gassed, arrested and traumatized by police during a 2020 racial justice demonstration, the Tribune-Review has learned. The settlement was revealed in a motion filed Monday in federal court, which states that the...

The University of Pittsburgh’s $240 million plan to build an arena and sports performance center on the Oakland campus earned approval Tuesday from the city’s Planning Commission. Victory Heights will be located near Petersen Events Center on Terrace Street — on the site of the former Pitt Stadium, which was...

A proposal before Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission would improve supportive housing and add new affordable units in the city’s Uptown area. Bethlehem Haven, a local nonprofit that provides housing and various wraparound services, is looking to upgrade an existing Fifth Avenue site where it offers supportive housing to 26 women with...