Pittsburgh Regional Transit will use hearings on service cuts to rally riders
Pittsburgh Regional Transit – along with other transit agencies in Pennsylvania – is in an unusual situation. On Tuesday, the agency will begin the federally required process for major service cuts and a fare increase. At the same time, it is lobbying elected officials in Harrisburg to increase its annual subsidy to cover a projected…
A day to remember the dead ends with an urgent message: fight for the living
Monday’s remembrance ceremony for those whose jobs killed them during the past year was brief and focused. The reading of names, a Workers Memorial Day tradition, took 7 minutes and 15 seconds. It’s chilling to think it may take longer next year. What do we expect to happen with drastic cuts to agencies tasked with…
Help pick a name for the U.S. Steel Irvin Works’ eighth bald eaglet and donate to a wildlife center
Just a few days remain to enter a naming contest for the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Irvin Works bald eaglet who turned a month old this week, with proceeds benefitting a Saegertown wildlife center. The Steel City Eagles Facebook group is letting the faithful know that a $5 donation to the contest lets them choose…
Point Park wins Mountain East Conference regular-season championship, with conference tournament on the horizon, in first season at NCAA Division II level
Loren Torres was prepared for change this spring. Still, the native of Patillas, Puerto Rico, said he knew some things would stay the same as his 16th season leading the Point Park baseball program also marked the Pioneers’ first competing at the NCAA Division II level. Point Park’s athletic department ascended from its previous National…
Flying through the sky: Building the Beaver River Bridge replacement
It’s normal work for the Pennsylvania Turnpike to replace a bridge, work in a river, build a new road, widen a highway, relocate a stream, tunnel under the turnpike or revamp an interchange. Replacing the Beaver River Bridge, 12 miles east of the Ohio border at the Route 18 interchange in Beaver County, is all…
More traffic restrictions set this week
Another week, another series of traffic restrictions on local roads. Here’s the breakdown:
Recalling the Fall of Saigon 50 years later with a refugee family’s story and a Veterans Breakfast Club event
Linh Nguyen can’t recall her family’s flight from Vietnam before Saigon fell on April 30, 1975. Just a baby, she left with her parents and two sisters on her grandfather’s fishing boat packed with 70 people that a U.S. ship rescued. The Castle Shannon resident has told her family’s story several times, most recently at…
From Next Generation Newsroom: 4 years to fix less than half-mile of road
Residents of Andover Terrace are reaching for answers after part of the road collapsed in 2022 – and won’t be fixed until 2026 at the earliest. “It’s terrible. It’s depressing,” said Marcia Schutz, a homeowner on Andover in the Hill District. “The whole thing is completely frustrating.” On one side of Andover Terrace, 15 turn-of-the-century homes…
PUP baseball notebook: After missing out on the playoffs last season, Canon-McMillan uses the No. 1 offense and pitching in Class 6A to ascend to section lead
Canon-McMillan fell short of reaching the playoffs a season ago. It has been a different story this spring for the Big Macs, who have made big strides and not only have already earned a spot in the playoffs but also could be on the cusp of winning a section title. “Just continuing the process,” third-year…
‘He took a love to it and hasn’t stopped since’ — In just his third year throwing, Gateway’s Dino Nadarevic, a native of Bosnia-Herzegovina, develops into one of the state’s top throwers
Dino Nadarevic is an avid fisherman. He and his dad have fishing spots they like to go to in Turtle Creek and Canonsburg, but it has been some time since the two have broken out the rods and bait. “I’m planning on going to get my license again,” Nadarevic said. “I want to go back…
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Mt. Lebanon native, Central Catholic product Neal Shipley earns first professional victory; working toward Oakmont homecoming at U.S. Open
The date is naturally sticking out in Neal Shipley’s mind. With the U.S. Open set to return to Oakmont Country Club for the 10th time this summer, it would be an understatement to suggest the Mt. Lebanon native and 2019 Central Catholic graduate is merely eyeing a potential return to competitive action in his hometown…
One woman’s defiant remembering keeps the tragic story of Times Beach alive
EUREKA, Missouri — You can lose your town and home and pretty much everything you own and become part of a nightmare story so big it’s on all the TV networks, and then four decades later people won’t even remember your town’s name, much less the heartache and loss you endured. Forgetting the bad stuff…
‘OK, let’s retire’: Carnegie Mellon men’s basketball coach Tony Wingen calls it a career after 35 seasons, three NCAA Division III tournament berths, most wins in program history
Suddenly, Tony Wingen knew it was time to broach the subject. It was the sort of major life decision the longtime Carnegie Mellon men’s basketball coach had typically mulled over with his wife, Kris, over the course of the past five decades. Wingen said she had yet to steer him wrong. “It was probably [three]…
