Julia Maruca

Pittsburgh City Council celebrated Yvonne F. Brown, a resident of the city’s Hill District neighborhood, for her decades-long dedication to speaking her mind at public meetings.

Adults, youth, and City of Pittsburgh officials alike sat down at a town hall meeting Wednesday evening to talk about “teen takeovers” – the large, sometimes-disruptive gatherings of young people that have garnered concern and debate in recent months.

The City of Pittsburgh will use $200,000 from the Stop the Violence fund to ensure the Burgwin Rec Center in Hazelwood can open and host after-school programs for kids.

Pittsburgh councilors may change the city parking code to close a loophole in the rules around prohibited parking areas, including sidewalks and bike lanes.

People who work Downtown for the City of Pittsburgh will now have access to free public transit passes, thanks to a new partnership between the city and Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

At a press briefing, City Controller Rachael Heisler said that city revenues offered “very positive signs midway through 2026,” and indicated that the city’s overall budgetary woes — which she has been warning about for more than a year — are solvable.

An audit of Pittsburgh’s use of COVID-era relief funds conducted by City Controller Rachael Heisler’s office found that the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority failed to properly document how it used some of the money it was given.

A new look at Pittsburgh’s mid-year finances suggests the city’s fiscal picture is getting worse — a trend which stems partly from parking tax revenues coming in well below estimates due to the NFL draft this spring.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala says he aims to be ready “by next week” to talk about the death of Daphy Michel, a Haitian immigrant who died after being kept in federal custody. But Zappala offered a much more open-ended timeline on another case of public interest, a shrouded investigation into the city of Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh police and firefighters across much of the city’s East End now have a new home base: a freshly-renovated building with nearly 100 years of history.