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Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday introduced legislation to quickly regulate short-term rental properties, days after a shooting at a North Side Airbnb left two teenage boys dead and eight others wounded. Legislation introduced would require anyone operating an Airbnb or similar short-term rental unit to get a license from the...

The defense attorney for King Edwards told the court that his client has no criminal record, is remorseful and that he fully cooperated with law enforcement in their prosecution of the men responsible for the beating death of a Somali cab driver in Beltzhoover in 2017. Edwards even went so...

Fans of Peter Max have an opportunity to purchase never-before-available posters from the pop artist whose bright, bold works are synonymous with 1960s and ’70s pop culture. “The Peter Max Experience,” a boutique collection of some of Max’s iconic works, will have a limited engagement in the Christine Frechard Gallery...

A Pittsburgh police officer who responded to a noise complaint at a North Side party less than two hours before a fatal shooting saw nothing that caused concern, Chief Scott Schubert said Tuesday morning. “There was nothing unusual to indicate that something was wrong,” Schubert said. “We have some information...

Police were there just 90 minutes before the shooting started. At the party on Pittsburgh’s North Side where more than 200 people were gathered in an Airbnb rental, it was crowded and loud, witnesses said. People waited in line to get into the party, which was being held in one...

A recent poll from political group Emily’s List has state Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, with a 25 point lead over her nearest competitor in the Democratic race for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional district. Among Democratic primary voters polled, 38% said they would vote for Lee. Squirrel Hill lawyer Steve Irwin received...

The steady all-day rain on Monday could have been representative of the tears being shed at the loss of Mathew Steffy-Ross and Jaiden Brown. The two 17-year-olds died on Easter Sunday after a shooting at a party in a rented house on Pittsburgh’s North Side. People mourned the teens as...

Legislation that will be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council Tuesday aims to regulate Airbnb and other short-term rental units in the city, after two teenage boys were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting at an Airbnb rental property in the city’s North Side over the weekend. The...

Pittsburgh police officers responded to an Airbnb party at a North Side home for a noise complaint just 90 minutes before a shooting left two teenage boys dead and eight other partygoers injured by gunfire. Pittsburgh police on Monday confirmed that officers had been called to the scene for a...

Audio recordings of emergency calls during a shooting early Sunday at a party in Pittsburgh illustrate in real-time the chaotic scene that police and partygoers experienced as the gunfire continued. As officers begin responding to the scene on Suismon Street at Madison Avenue, the sheer volume of people becomes clear....

Less than an hour into Easter Sunday, nearly 100 gunshots sent hundreds of young people — many of them teenagers — running into the streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side. At least 50 shots were fired inside a three-story home on Madison Avenue at Suismon Street, authorities said, and just as...

Four men are alleged to have been involved in a shootout Sunday afternoon at a business in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood. Police said officers received an alert just before 3 p.m. of three rounds fired in the 2100 block of Wharton Street. Officers arrived to find that the windows...

The Pittsburgh Scholar House — a new nonprofit that aims to increase support for single-parent families in pursuit of higher education — announced Thursday that it has appointed Diamonte Walker as its inaugural CEO. Walker previously served as the deputy executive director for Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. In her new...

Two teenage boys were killed and eight other people were injured by gunfire in an early morning shooting at a party Sunday in Pittsburgh’s North Side, police said. A ShotSpotter notification around 12:30 a.m. sent police to a three-story building on Suismon Street near Madison Avenue in the city’s East...

The medal was pinned close to Cyril Emmerich’s heart. It was appropriate. The 97-year-old World War II veteran loves his country. Emmerich, of Overbrook was presented with France’s National Order of the Legion of Honour medal on Saturday at Bravo! Italian Kitchen in the Waterfront in Homestead. “This means a...

Ed Gainey adjusted his suit and tie and knocked on the front door of a home in Pittsburgh’s Hill District that was riddled with bullet holes. “My name is Ed Gainey. I’m the mayor,” he said when a woman opened the door. “I heard what happened yesterday. I just wanted...

The Armstrong Tunnels in Pittsburgh will be closed overnight Monday into Tuesday morning, Allegheny County Public Works announced. The closure is scheduled to run from 8 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday. The tunnels are being closed so that T2 Utility Engineers of Cranberry can do utility investigation work, according...

A man found shot in Pittsburgh’s Hill District late Friday night was reported hospitalized in critical but stable condition, Pittsburgh police said. The victim, who was not identified, was found in the middle of the street at the intersection of Centre Avenue and Addisson Street shot in the leg shortly...

A man has died as a result of a shooting early Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s Woods Run neighborhood, Pittsburgh police said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the man as Donald Hammond, 31, of Pittsburgh. He died at Allegheny General Hospital. Three men were taken to police headquarters for questioning,...

Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure plans to begin its 2022 paving program next week. The city is spending more than $12.5 million on street resurfacing and other improvements such as curb ramp upgrades. The city, which is responsible for maintaining more than 1,000 miles of roadway, plans to resurface...

Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority on Thursday entered into an agreement with the Regional Industrial Development Corp. of Southwestern Pennsylvania to build warehouses on a 25-acre site in the city’s Fairywood neighborhood. The proposed two-phase development would begin with construction of a 150,000-square-foot warehouse. RIDC said it is in talks with...

Pittsburgh is holding a series of events aimed at bringing people back to the city’s Downtown as it looks to bounce back from the covid-19 pandemic. The events, dubbed Pittsburgh Opens, look to build on efforts to reconnect returning workers with the Downtown neighborhood and revitalize the area with live...

From old-fashioned saloons and greasy spoons to tattoo parlors, sports stadiums and a shop that sells only instruments you can pick, the South Side has edgy entertainment and enough history to call itself iconic. The neighborhood was once populated by steelworkers coming off their shifts and looking for a place...

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald tested positive for covid-19 Thursday, officials announced Friday. Gainey is experiencing only minor symptoms and is in isolation at home, his office said in a news release Friday morning. He will continue working from home while following guidelines from the...

It is Easter weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Spring Flower Show This is the final weekend for “Sunshine and Rainbows,” the spring flower show at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Oakland. The display includes thousands of blooms, including New Guinea impatiens, kalanchoe, nemesia, muscari and lobelia....