How many commercials or television shows start with a simple, understandable visual? A glass of juice. A bowl of cereal. Hot slices of bread popping out of a toaster. Children running from a bountiful...

Is everything smoothed over for The Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills? It’s hard to say. After years of rough riding at the Frazer mall property, the rutted, potholed roads have been paved. The crimi...

Bids can make you think of an auction. A fast-talking salesman unveils an item, and a flurry of offers drives up the price. But bidding for a contract happens in the opposite direction. The point is n...

Never buy something without knowing the price. Of all the advice my grandmother offered, there’s really nothing that comes to me in her sweet, firm voice more often. Grandma usually gave it abou...

Pennsylvania State University has built a sprawling physical presence across Pennsylvania. There is the antique architecture of Old Main and the athletic shrine of Beaver Stadium at University Park. T...

What is the balance between access and order? It’s a question that can draw lines between government bodies as big as the White House and as small as the tiniest municipalities on one side and t...

Free speech isn’t easy. It’s a balancing act between opposing positions: what can be said, what should be said, and what the consequences are. It is a tug-of-war Carnegie Mellon University...

Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series examining the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In 1878, a chapel was built at a Santa Fe, N.M., girls school. There was attention to detail as i...

When you pick up a bottle of energy drink, you may not read the label. You may not turn the package on your cold medicine to see exactly what it contains. But the label is there to list the water, sug...

Never forget. That’s what we said on Sept. 11, 2001. Never forget, we promised the people who died in the Twin Towers. The people who perished at the Pentagon. The heroes of United Flight 93. Dr...

It should not take an official ruling to realize that a pension needs to be kept sound. A pension is a contract between employer and employee. The employee does the work, putting in time and money for...

The adults in a child’s life are models. They are who kids will learn to emulate. They put down the footprints that are followed. That’s what makes incidents at youth sports events so upse...

Kids will be kids. The expression is not an excuse for bad behavior. It’s an admonishment to remember that children have different tendencies and capabilities than adults. There is a reason that...

According to a recent breakdown from financial tech company SmartAsset, people need a lot more money than they are making to be comfortable. A single Pennsylvanian, for instance, needs about $97,011 t...

Vines have swallowed Patrice Aaron’s back window. They press against the glass from outside her home, blocking nearly all of the sunlight. For the single mother of two, the vines are just one of...

On Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro stood at the microphone for a news conference about the growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. Two deaths that officials say were related to the infectious disease wer...

Like most women of a certain age, I have a bittersweet love for “Steel Magnolias.” “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion,” Dolly Parton’s bubbly hairdresser Truv...

Apologies aren’t enough sometimes. Saying “sorry” doesn’t fix a smashed fender. It might not save your marriage. It won’t heal a broken leg. While we teach our kids that ...

Penn State has a complicated relationship with fraternities. THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. In 2026, fraternities and sororities led a haul of $18.8 million. Even on the ra...

What is happening at Westmoreland County Prison? It’s hard to say. We know what actions the county is taking to address problems. On Thursday, the prison board fired Warden Steven Pelesky in a s...

How does affirming private property rights affect the future of hunting in Pennsylvania? It is leading to fewer game wardens on the ground. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced the end of th...

It is easy for Sony and Marvel Studios to tell you how “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has broken box office records. The tickets tell the story of $700 million domestically and $1.1 billion w...

In a recent social media post, a self-identified Pittsburgh millennial lobbed a grenade at a Western Pennsylvania tradition. “I know you’re all gonna get mad at me,” TikTok user Timm...

Sometimes the true test of a building isn’t how it’s built. It’s how it can be rebuilt when needs change. A warehouse becomes apartments. A factory becomes offices. An old department...

On Sunday night, a woman was shot and killed in the Strip District. The crime can be reduced to its component parts easily. The victim was Black. She was 34. Both age and race statistically increase r...

Vanessa Zelczak-Waryas probably doesn’t see herself as the future of community leadership. After all, she is just 6 years old. She’s not even in first grade yet. How can you make a differe...

Rape crisis centers in Pennsylvania will see state funding double under the budget signed last month. These agencies provide services to victims of sexual assault. Pittsburgh Action Against Rape was o...

Every jail has challenges when dealing with people who have serious medical needs. People who have been arrested can have the same health problems anyone might face. They may have cardiac or respirato...

The cost of staying healthy is climbing. The cost of getting sick is even worse. Prescription drug costs are up. So is the amount of money people spend in urgent care — and that’s affordab...

The TV classic “The West Wing” is an alternate reality where, despite deep divides and polar partisanship, there is a government grounded in commitment and compromise. And one sentence, ma...

People come and go from a jail all the time. People are admitted. Others go to court appearances or work release. They may leave on probation or move to a state institution or just reach the end of th...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is siding with Democrats — at least this week. There are some issues nailed into the Republican platform, like tax cuts and deregulation. There are some knitted into the...

How do you keep fans when your best day in 11 years is a heartbreaking shutout loss? The Pittsburgh Pirates are, it must be acknowledged, not historically a good team. Yes, there are bright spots and ...

Should one neighborhood’s recreation center receive $200,000 in funding while others receive nothing? That might seem to be the question behind concerns raised Wednesday in Pittsburgh. But is it...

Editor’s note: This is part of a yearlong exploration of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, how they changed our country and how they remain relevant today. Construction isn’t perfec...

It is important to defend what belongs to you. Trademarks, copyrights, patents. They all do the same thing. They put a fence around intellectual property and warn against infringement. Do not use this...

When a judge gives a deadline, it’s not a suggestion. It’s a brick wall — hard hitting and difficult to blow past. If a lawyer misses a filing date, a case can get tossed out of cour...

Watch television or scan through online video services and you will see them. The ads show the elder statesmen of athletics strolling across a golf course, leaning on clubs and chatting about their en...

On Tuesday, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato went public with some personal news: her pregnancy. The first female to lead the county will also be the first to give birth in office. Her pregn...

A brand-new BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe is a sporty little entry into the world of luxury vehicles with a starting price of $42,000. That is less than the cost of one year at Penn State for a Pennsylvania...

Average Pennsylvanians juggle financial obligations every day. That doesn’t mean just earning money and paying bills. It means doing it in a timely manner. If that doesn’t happen, banks an...

Construction doesn’t always go as planned. Sometimes it takes time for the problems to show. A basement drainage problem, bad wiring, whatever it is — sometimes you have to go back to the ...

Driving on the parkway is one of those necessary evils of Pittsburgh living. Whether it’s the inexplicable traffic stacking up at a tunnel or a death-defying lane change to reach an exit, the hu...

In 2024, mortgage foreclosure proceedings began for Gateway Center, the 1.5 million-square-foot office complex in Downtown Pittsburgh. Wells Fargo Bank said in court documents that Hertz Gateway Cente...

America is often described as a grand experiment. That’s true. The hypothesis of the Founding Fathers was unlike anything found in the monarchies of Europe. It was new and exciting. It took Brit...

No one is on the side of child predators — except, presumably, other child predators. People have a visceral response to crimes against children. They want to protect. They want to avenge. They ...

The stories of America’s birth are often distilled to its schoolbook moments: Boston. Philadelphia. New York. But the journey from colony to superpower is not just a story of cities. In what would bec...

The rules are the rules because they have been codified and agreed to. Sometimes that’s not convenient, but it’s true nonetheless. The United States didn’t end Prohibition by pretend...

The most important question asked in Washington this week didn’t come from a journalist or in a news conference. It came from a sitting senator. He didn’t ask it in a hearing. It wasn&rsqu...

Imagine someone picked the lock on your back door and walked inside. This person went through your mail, took your data and stole invasive and private images. It was all traded away to others, without...