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Green adventures: Your family-friendly guide to Pittsburgh’s Earth Month events

by Aakanksha Agarwal April 2, 2024April 4, 2024

A man standing in front of a factory with smoke in the background.

Community storytelling

An asthma attack gave me a mission: Provide people in the Mon Valley with the tools to survive

by First-person essay by Qiyam Ansari March 15, 2024March 17, 2024

PPG, Rosedale Tech encourage women to enter male-dominated careers

by Joyce Gannon March 13, 2024March 14, 2024

Man waves from a podium with American and Pennsylvanian flags behind him.

Shapiro pitches legal cannabis, regulated skill games in budget that bumps education spending by $2.2B

by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA and Kate Huangpu of Spotlight PA February 7, 2024February 9, 2024

Pennsylvania needs to spend $5.4B to close gap between rich and poor schools, Dem report says

by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA January 13, 2024January 14, 2024

Community storytelling

‘I hope I don’t mess up again’ I thought on leaving prison. Now I help others say, ‘Look what I did!’

by Rich LordJanuary 5, 2024January 7, 2024

Dave Lettrich, executive director of the street outreach group Bridge to the Mountains, comforts Caydee, a woman experiencing homelessness, on Dec. 21 during a Downtown candlelight vigil, organized by Pittsburgh Mercy’s Operation Safety Net, to remember 23 people known to have died while unhoused in Pittsburgh in the past year. The previous year, there were 13. Homelessness is now "at a different level of crisis, and we’re going to have to figure out who we are – maybe before we really figure out what to do,” said Dr. Jim Withers, founder of the Street Medicine Institute. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Inside our Newsroom

In 2023, Pittsburgh and Allegheny county news overflowed — and the shelters did, too

by Jamie Wiggan and Rich Lord December 29, 2023May 8, 2024

A group of people sitting in a conference room.

PPS strategic plan eyes school closures to save costs and improve student experience

by Lajja Mistry and Jamie Wiggan December 7, 2023December 11, 2023

Brook Emery, left, and Anita Zhu, stand outside of Deer Lakes High School where they are both seniors on Sept. 27, 2023, in Cheswick. The two started KFIVE tutoring as a way to pass on the lessons they have learned from adversity. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

From pink pencil to nonprofit: How a writing utensil ignited a passion for tutoring in our community

by Anita Zhu and Brook Emery September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

photo illustration showing school children, a picture of money.

For Pittsburgh schools, per-student budgets can be thousands of dollars apart

by Lajja Mistry September 19, 2023September 29, 2023