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Did anybody do the reading? Colleges grapple with a generational shift in learning — plus AI

“We’ve had this assumption that learning can happen in these very autonomous, individualistic ways,” said Brock Bahler, a religious studies professor at Pitt. “But maybe that’s not how learning happens, maybe learning happens in the community?”

by Jamese Platt

ICE, immigration and local response

Business owners draw heat for resisting ICE

by Matt Petras

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Pittsburgh demolition crew ends Knoxville house’s slow, two-decade decline

by Rich Lord

MENTAL HEALTH

My baby boy is my biggest source of joy, but postpartum nights broke me

by First-person essay by Cara Zlatos

Local Government

At Point Park, Pittsburgh’s arts leaders and policymakers ask: What place does art have in the region’s future?

by Halle Stockton

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Pittsburgh’s Bhutanese community in the misinformation age

by Aakanksha Agarwal

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Grassroots resistance to data centers rises in Pennsylvania

by Jon Hurdle, Inside Climate News

ICE, immigration and local response

Reporting on the reach and impact of immigration enforcement in Pittsburgh and across Southwestern Pennsylvania.

2026 Pittsburgh NFL Draft

NFL Draft fans? Meet Pittsburgh’s roads, transit and hospitality sector.

by Jamie Wiggan

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Local Government

Allegheny County Council advances bill restricting ICE cooperation

by Charlie Wolfson

Faith and Religion

These Pittsburgh churches are embracing LGBTQ Christians

by Meg St-Esprit

Featured

You Have the Floor: 7 town halls in 7 days

by Jennie Ewing Liska and Halle Stockton

Arts & Culture

Video: The art-filled Pittsburgh retreat for traveling Black artists

by Janel Young

First person

Am I family? A stepparent? A bonus adult? Messy questions led me to real community.

by First-person essay by Lauren H. Steele

Economy & Housing

Push to turn former Downtown heating plant into affordable housing gains steam

Pittsburgh’s Housing Authority is set to add nearly $2 million to a plan to convert a dowdy Downtown building into a novel take on affordable housing. The authority is also preparing to buy a 100-unit Homewood complex for older adults.

by Mia Hollie

HIGHER EDUCATION

Pitt shared a border patrol recruitment event. Here’s how colleges are responding to the immigration crackdown.

Federal immigration agencies are recruiting at colleges nationwide, raising concerns about school policies on their presence. Here’s what Pitt and other local institutions are saying.

by Maddy Franklin

Allegheny County DHS leader to leave for NYC job

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Erin Dalton, ACDHS director since 2021, as social services director.

by Charlie Wolfson and Venuri Siriwardane

Technology

A Pennsylvania startup uses AI to turn doomscrolling into civic action

Modern Action links news to legislation, aiming to give constituents a personal way to influence lawmakers and make their voices heard.

by Alice Crow

Election 2026

Democrat cruises to victory in South Hills special election for state House

Jennifer Mazzocco prevailed in the region’s first election of 2026 and will represent Mount Lebanon, Dormont, Castle Shannon, Baldwin Township and part of Upper St. Clair for the rest of the year.

by Charlie Wolfson

2026 Pittsburgh NFL Draft

What Green Bay says about hosting last year’s NFL Draft

Expect Pittsburgh’s draft visitors to be mostly local and regional, with little boost to business outside the draft area.

by Charlie Wolfson

Education

Once assaulted over his identity, Riverview school board president stood with immigrant community

Antonio Paris joined the board after being targeted as a gay, Black man. Last month, when ICE agents detained an elementary school father, he quickly pushed through a student safety plan.

by Lajja Mistry

Trump Impacts

Timeline: Feds say CMU among 31 schools to stop working with Ph.D. diversity nonprofit

A timeline of federal higher ed changes and responses by Pittsburgh-area colleges and universities.

by Maddy Franklin

Economy & Housing

Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs

The majority found that the Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs. “The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.

by The Associated Press

Arts & Culture

Video: One of Pittsburgh’s coolest art experiences is hiding in Troy Hill

Pittsburgh artist and muralist Janel Young explores the North Side’s Troy Hill Art Houses.

by Janel Young

Guest commentary

People over plows: A call for urgent investment in Pittsburgh’s Black women

January snow revealed one of the city’s needs, but the region has had clear evidence, since 2019, of another: a vast gap in quality of life along racial and gender lines. We need to bring the same urgency to that challenge.

by First-person essay by Sharnay Hearn Davis

ICE, immigration and local response

Sheriff’s ICE interactions, in flux for nearly a year, at center of Allegheny County debate

An email circulated among county judges last year suggested sheriff’s deputies would detain people sought by ICE at the courthouse. The sheriff’s office maintains they never did, as council mulls a bill to ban cooperation with immigration enforcement.

by Quinn Glabicki

ICE, immigration and local response

Talk of ICE activity around schools prompts advocacy and a walkout

Reports of an immigration-related arrest brought observers to Wilkinsburg schools and Westinghouse High, while Allderdice students left early and marched to express anti-ICE sentiment.

by Mia Hollie, Lajja Mistry and DS Fleegle

ALCOA MINES AUSTRALIA'S FOREST

Alcoa pays Australian feds $36 million for ‘unlawful’ forest clearing

The payment, dubbed “unprecedented” by Australia’s mining minister, settles a question of whether the Pittsburgh giant enjoys exemptions to Australian environmental law. Separate tussles continue with state and local governments.

by Jamie Wiggan

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