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Byline: Julia Felton May 19Pittsburgh officials on Friday announced they are planning to complete a traffic calming project in the city's Squirrel Hill neighborhood next week. The traffic calming effort [...]

Byline: Kellen Stepler May 6Two of Lower Burrell's premier parks could look a little different in the future. According to City Councilman Chris Fabry, proposed improvements include cleaning and crack [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Mar. 18Pittsburgh on Friday announced the city will launch a five-month, citywide composting pilot across the city. The initiative, headed by the Department of City Planning's Sustainability [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Mar. 14When a police manhunt unfolded Jan. 2 in Harrison, Tarentum and Brackenridge, residents were thirsty for information about what was happening. But there was no way [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Mar. 2Pittsburgh's Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections is expanding its new accelerated review program to include commercial mechanical and electrical permits. The city launched a pilot [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Feb. 23Pittsburgh was awarded $1.4 million on Wednesday to study whether it should alter a section of Route 65 in the city's North Side to reconnect the [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Nov. 7Plum officials are moving into the borough's $20 million municipal center, which will host its first public event in December. The building on Old Mine [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Nov. 7As Plum prepares to move into the borough's new municipal center, it already has plans for the redevelopment of the building and property it is [...]

Byline: Paul Guggenheimer Nov. 5On an early November day when temperatures were expected to approach record highs near 80, it was beginning to feel a bit like Christmas in Springdale. [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Oct. 14New Kensington residents will see a 1.7% increase in their sewage bills next year. That's less than the 2.7% increase the Municipal Sanitary Authority of [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Oct. 14As Pittsburgh's Move PGH pilot program marks its one-year anniversary, city officials touted the use of e-scooters and other transportation methods. The Move PGH pilot program [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Sep. 15The good news for Tarentum residents is that four hazardous homes and a dilapidated commercial building are expected to be demolished by January. The bad news [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Sep. 7The kayak launch along the Allegheny River in Harrison's Natrona section soon could become an enhanced destination for people seeking shorefront recreation. Harrison commissioners are hoping [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Sep. 7Pittsburgh's Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to link two historic buildings in the city's Central Business District. The plan is to connect the structure [...]

Byline: Megan Tomasic Dec. 23Hempfield supervisors plan to use up to $33 million in bonds to complete capital projects in 2022. The plan, unanimously approved this week by supervisors, includes [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Sep. 20A $7.1 million infusion of cash has been deposited into a fund that aims to revitalize Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, the city announced Monday. The money [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Sep. 3If you like to look at and draw maps, crunch population and demographic numbers and you live in the City of Pittsburgh, there's an unpaid gig [...]

Jul. 16Laurel: To a new way to move. The City of Pittsburgh is planning to get people up and running with a Move PGH pilot program launching in the Manchester [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Jun. 10A permanent glass recycling bin at the O'Hara municipal building will open Saturday. A kickoff event will be 10 a.m. to noon in the township parking [...]

Byline: Tony LaRussa Apr. 2Thirty-four streets in McCandless are scheduled to be resurfaced this year as part of the town's annual paving program. Council voted unanimously in February to award [...]

Manitoba Bill 37, The Planning Amendment and City of Winnipeg Charter Amendment Act ('Bill 37') was passed by the Legislature on May 20, 2021. Does that mean that these amendments [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Dec. 5Plum homeowners should not expect to see their real estate tax rates go up next year, but their water and sewage bills will increase slightly. Letters [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Nov. 28Murrysville council will vote in December on a $14.2 million budget for 2021 that does not include a tax increase. While real estate taxes will remain [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Nov. 20A few years ago, a development group from Kentucky approached Murrysville officials about the possibility of building a senior high-rise. It was then, municipal officials realized, [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Nov. 11More than $1.8 million will be allocated to address landslides around Riverview Park on Pittsburgh's North Side, Mayor Bill Peduto's administration announced Wednesday. The money will [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Sept. 10-- Sep. 10--Join the conversation () Updated plans for a proposed Plum municipal center are expected to be revealed this month. Borough Manager Michael Thomas said [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Sept. 02-- Sep. 2--Join the conversation () Pittsburgh is a city of 90 neighborhoods that has never had a single, coordinated plan that details what should be [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Aug. 17-- Aug. 17--Delmont officials are proposing to replace two sewage lines and possibly construct a large holding tank to help deal with sewage overflows and infiltration [...]

Byline: Megan Tomasic July 28-- Jul. 28--The creation of two nonprofit organizations that will benefit Hempfield parks and the township's fire department are underway. Supervisors began the process of creating [...]

Byline: Deborah Barfield Berry, and Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Against the backdrop of protests across the country over police shootings of unarmed Black people and racial disparities, [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson July 21-- Jul. 21--Voters in the City of Pittsburgh will decide in November whether the city charter should be amended to strengthen the powers of its Citizen [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson July 20-- Jul. 20--A pilot program announced by Pittsburgh officials could be another step toward enacting the law enforcement reforms that community activists have asked for in [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder July 14-- Jul. 14--Pittsburgh is on the verge of finally securing ownership of a former Veterans Affairs hospital complex in Lincoln-Lemington with plans to create a public [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine July 08-- Jul. 8--Export officials are still planning to hold the borough's annual Ethnic Food and Music Festival on Aug. 15, in hopes that the covid-19 pandemic [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio July 08-- Jul. 8--Solutions for flooding problems in the Oakmont Commons neighborhood are expected to be announced in the coming months. Senate Engineering submitted plans and models [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder June 26-- Jun. 26--Work began this week on a long-awaited connection designed to plug a gap in the Great Allegheny Passage hiking and biking trail between Point [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder June 12-- Jun. 12--Pittsburgh is planning to create an Office of Community Health and Safety that will provide social service experts to deal with problems, including homelessness, [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder May 28-- May 28--Pittsburgh is seeking to recover more than $250,000 it mistakenly provided police officers for 2019 uniform costs, but a union official on Wednesday said [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder May 27-- May 27--Pittsburgh erroneously paid its police officers a total of more than $250,000 for uniforms and is now trying to recoup the money, according to [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 14-- May 14--Nearly $700,000 in upgrades are scheduled for Fawcett Field and Eagle Canyon Trail in Shaler, but work will be pushed to 2021 while commissioners [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio May 13-- May 13--Youngblood Paving crews will be in Plum's Regency neighborhood to finish last year's paving list, starting Wednesday. Borough officials said inclement weather and scheduling [...]

Byline: Megan Tomasic May 02-- May 2--Hempfield crews are preparing to start a $1.3 million summer paving program that will resurface 9 miles of township roads. The project, slated to [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder March 30-- Mar. 30--Pittsburgh's usual spring pothole patching blitz is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a city official. The Department of Public Works [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine March 11-- Mar. 11--Delmont officials will advertise for a $6.50-per-month sewage rate hike in order to keep pace with the changes required in the borough's consent order [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Oct. 25-- Oct. 25--A bike trail connecting Verona, Oakmont, Penn Hills and Plum should remain as off-road as possible, use historic sites as trail heads and have [...]