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A bill introduced to Pittsburgh City Council Wednesday would award $125,000 to the Poise Foundation aimed at supporting William "B" Marshall's Juneteenth festival.

Pittsburgh is poised to launch a city-run Juneteenth event this year. City Council preliminarily approved a $125,000 contract with Bounce Marketing and Events to put on a festival next month. But the organizer of a long-running Juneteenth festival says he should have been given that money.

As Pittsburgh struggles to attract lifeguards — despite increasing pay rates — the city may have to choose which pools open this summer, and which ones stay closed.

Mayor Ed Gainey's chief of police nominee, Larry Scirotto, won unanimous support from Pittsburgh City Council Tuesday to officially become the city's new chief of police.

After a prolonged search for the city's next chief of police, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is expected to announce his nominee Wednesday.

After someone broke into Emily Shaheen’s Chevrolet Spark outside her Mt. Washington apartment around Thanksgiving, the marketing director and Point Park University alumnus didn’t fret much. After all, they mostly just scored some loose change. “I didn’t even bother going to the police because there was nothing they were going

Pittsburgh City Council officials last week announced that City Clerk Brenda Pree was departing from city council, Assistant Clerk Kim Clark-Baskin would serve as acting clerk and they had hired new leaders for the City Council Budget Office. Pree has accepted an offer to serve as the city clerk of

Pittsburgh leaders are looking to combat what they say is a growing problem with homelessness in the city. City Council President Theresa Kail Smith, D-Westwood, said she encountered the problem first-hand a few months ago in Mt. Washington, where people were staying in Fireman’s Parklet at Shiloh Street and Virginia