Bill Schackner

Billionaire and Pittsburgh native Mark Cuban knows a bit about starting and growing businesses, but he first learned about being broke, eating condiment sandwiches and scraping by to keep a fledgling enterprise going. Speaking to a room of small business owners and entrepreneurs in East Liberty on Saturday, Cuban, 66,

A basement fire Saturday in a home on Taylor Avenue in Arnold displaced three residents but caused no injuries, Arnold Fire Chief Eric Gartley said. Firefighters responded about 12:30 p.m. to a single-family house at 1419 Taylor Ave. when smoke was seen. The resident were not home, Gartley said, but

If kindness can counteract one incalculable act of hate, that spirit was alive in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community Sunday, six years after the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history claimed 11 people in a Squirrel Hill synagogue. Even before an evening ceremony honoring victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting

A shooting that left one dead and three others wounded in McKees Rocks on Saturday is under investigation by Allegheny County police.

Anyone who's climbed cardiac hill for a basketball game or class at the University of Pittsburgh will tell you – perhaps, after catching their breath – that having an upper and lower campus can be taxing.

Legal scholars, political scientists and others simply curious about how the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution since its founding can now turn to Penn State University for answers. That’s because the nation’s high court – more precisely, its online database of cases dating to 1791 — has moved

Setting up a table on a college campus to encourage voter turnout or promote a political candidate are time-honored student expressions of free speech, as is canvassing door-to-door before an election.

The newly created State Board of Higher Education, tasked with re-imaging oversight of Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities, has named Kate Shaw as executive director. Shaw is deputy secretary for Higher Education within the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She has a decades-long career in government, the private sector and in academia

The union representing more than 5,000 faculty and coaches across Pennsylvania's 10 state-owned universities is the latest to affiliate with AFT, a nationwide union of education and other workers.

A trustees panel at Penn State University advanced plans Thursday for a $96 million classroom development at University Park to accommodate expected