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Brick sign reading "Shuman Juvenile Detention Center" outside a fenced-in facility with trees and a brick building in the background. Red and white barrier visible in the foreground.

Local Government

Settlement: New board will oversee privatized Shuman operation

by Venuri Siriwardane September 6, 2024September 8, 2024

A person with curly hair and glasses, leaning on a fence at sunset, looking into the distance. Urban lights and a road are visible in the background.

Until I can walk a pedestrian-friendly Route 51, I fear for my life

by First-person essay by Avishek Acharya August 23, 2024August 25, 2024

A person exits a polling station with "VOTE HERE" signs for Electoral District #2 displayed outside the entrance.

Appalachia’s young voters could impact the 2024 election

by Ellie Heffernan, 100 Days in Appalachia August 21, 2024August 20, 2024

Economy & Housing

Pittsburgh authority placing more housing vouchers, but not placating some landlords

by Eric Jankiewicz August 6, 2024August 21, 2024

A resident of Hi View Gardens and her young son, seen through a gate, cross the main parking lot of the five-building McKeesport complex. The Allegheny County Health Department found 347 housing health code violations at Hi View and nearby Midtown Plaza from 2017 through 2020, and it collected $2,500 in penalties. (Photo by Ryan Loew/PublicSource)

Updated: Allegheny County Board of Health gives OK to housing health panel

by Venuri Siriwardane July 17, 2024July 17, 2024

Dean Julian, 70, practices his punches at the Fit 4 Boxing Club in Hampton on July 3, 2024. (Jess Daninhirsch/PublicSource)

The boxing club that’s ‘punching out Parkinson’s disease’

by Jess Daninhirsch July 12, 2024July 13, 2024

A collage of four images: a man in a red cap, a hand with a tattoo, a woman in a striped shirt, and a person seated wearing sneakers.

A month after the shelter fire, unhoused people ‘strive for another day’ as advocates look ahead

by Eric Jankiewicz, Stephanie Strasburg and Laura Turbay July 2, 2024July 8, 2024

Newspaper clippings of obituaries on a yellow background with some scribbles, photo illustration.

When my father died, another tragedy hit home: The newspaper obituary is on its death bed

by First-person essay by Sue Kerr June 14, 2024July 15, 2024

A group of people, including a man in a checkered shirt and a man in a baseball cap, engage in a discussion about EQT fracks on as water complaints in rural Pa. spread, all within a gymnasium setting with rock climbing walls and blue padding in the background.

There is something wrong under New Freeport

by Quinn Glabicki June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

Economy & Housing

500 people in homelessness to be housed in 500 days, per new Allegheny County plan

by Eric Jankiewicz June 6, 2024June 9, 2024