Julia Maruca

Experts on youth behavior and violence prevention encouraged Pittsburgh city councilors to look for nuanced solutions to working with the city's young people at a post-agenda meeting this week.

Pittsburgh City Council is considering levying a tax on mechanical games and entertainment machines, a category encompassing a range of devices like pinball machines, jukeboxes and skill games consoles.

Pittsburgh Fire Chief Darryl Jones has been placed on paid leave while the city conducts an internal investigation, city officials said Monday.

A plan to regulate vape shops in the city of Pittsburgh advanced in City Council on Wednesday, more than half a year after the proposal was introduced.

Pittsburgh City Council is set to vote on payments to the victims of the 2022 bridge collapse, settling a number of lawsuits that followed the disaster.

Pittsburgh’s public safety department hopes to expand an initiative that sends social workers to respond to some mental-health-related crises.

Pittsburgh officials say they expect recent promises of financial support to bear fruit in the form of reduced vehicle maintenance costs next year. In the meantime, the fleet still presents urgent needs.

Neighborhood organizations have used Burgwin Recreation Center, located on the border of Hazelwood and Glen Hazel, and its adjoining park as a nexus of youth programming for the past several years. But according to City Councilor Barb Warwick, even as work on the center nears completion, it lacks the funding needed for it to open this year.

Young people under the age of 15 will now need an adult over 21 to accompany them to enter the city of Pittsburgh’s public pools during weekends and evening hours.

A proposal before Pittsburgh City Council could introduce a new way of bringing neighborhood improvements to the East Carson Street business district on the South Side. Locals’ opinions are mixed.