Some Pittsburgh News Today

Some Pittsburgh residents gathered in Squirrel Hill to call for the immediate release of hostages being held by Hamas.

Some Pittsburgh residents gathered in Squirrel Hill to push for the release of hostages being held by Hamas.

Some Pittsburgh restaurants are taking the extreme measure of boycotting Buffalo sauce and other Buffalo-related products until the Steelers take on the Bills in Sunday’s wild-card playoff game. Buffalo dipping sauce will not be sold at select McDonald’s locations across the Pittsburgh region until after the game. Meghan Sweeney, owner/operator

Some Pittsburgh officials are looking to create regulated homeless encampments with running water and electricity. The plan calls for services to homeless people in safe, clean sites, said City Council members Anthony Coghill, D-Beechview, and Deb Gross, D-Highland Park. “This is like a small neighborhood that deserves services,” Gross said.

Some Pittsburgh bus riders will see altered service because of upcoming construction beginning for the University Line bus-rapid transit project, the region’s first major public transit operation in years. Four bus routes that currently cut though Oakland on their way to Downtown Pittsburgh will be shortened in order to make

0:55 Some Pittsburgh professors say they’re struggling to teach students about the two impeachment trials of former President Trump. University of Pittsburgh assistant professor of political science Victoria Shineman said she typically grounds current events, like this second impeachment, in political foundations like Congressional law.  “There are times we all just kind of stop and well say, ‘OK, in the first five or 10 minutes of class, lets just take a step back. What just happened? L...

How You Can Help Pittsburgh Restaurants Seven ways to help Pittsburgh’s restaurants and people who work in them make it through the winter. December 16, 2020 PHOTOS BY HAL B. KLEIN Gov. Tom Wolf’s Dec. 10 order to prohibit indoor dining in restaurants until Jan. 4 was the right call. Although restaurants aren’t typically the nexus of super-spreader events, and most operators are trying to do their best to keep spaces as safe as possible, serious studies in the United States and South Kore...