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American toads are one of 14 species and sub-species native to Western Pennsylvania. (Photo by Melanie Linn Gutowski/NEXTpittsburgh)

Community storytelling

How you can get involved in science from your own Pennsylvania backyard

by First-person essay by Melanie Linn Gutowski July 18, 2023June 17, 2024

David Lettrich, executive director of Bridge to the Mountains, is reflected in his car mirror as he takes calls from outreach workers in between rounds to encampments throughout the city on Jan. 26, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Allegheny County’s homeless community embraced me. Our region’s leaders should keep working to comfort unhoused people

by Rich LordJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

A rendering of CMU's planned robotics facility, which it seeks to build on Hazelwood Green.

Robots may roam proposed Hazelwood Green development

by Eric Jankiewicz July 11, 2023July 12, 2023

Most community college students hope to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree. CCAC students have better odds than others nationwide

by Emma Folts July 10, 2023October 26, 2023

Patti Rote (right) stands with three Girls of Steel participants in blue shirts. (Photo courtesy of Theresa Richards)

Exit Interview: Patti Rote is retiring from Girls of Steel, but plans to keep advocating for women in STEM

by Atiya Irvin-Mitchell July 7, 2023August 3, 2023

An old car sits on blocks between two McKeesport homes on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Advocates tell Allegheny County Board of Health: More work needed on housing code overhaul

by Quinn Glabicki July 6, 2023July 9, 2023

Volunteers work in a raised bed in Sunny’s Community Garden on Granville Street in the Hill District. The community gathering space opened in 2021 and has grown to a second location in Manchester. (Photo courtesy of Sunny’s Community Garden)

Community storytelling

Sunny’s Community Garden grows beyond the Hill District to second location in Manchester

by Ethan Woodfill July 6, 2023July 6, 2023

In her signature crocheted rainbow hat and smoke printed sweats, Aubrey Plesh, center, left, founder of Team PSBG, calls area shelters to secure other housing for former guests of the Smithfield United Church of Christ homeless shelter as she sits on the church steps on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Pittsburgh’s downtown. Plesh and PSBG team member Amanda Fry, right, were trying to coordinate how people would get to other shelter beds after the controversial space closed that morning at 7 a.m. At left and right, people in need of alternative shelter sit on the church steps waiting for a placement. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Smithfield homeless shelter in downtown Pittsburgh exposed frayed safety net and tested county compassion

by Stephanie Strasburg and Eric Jankiewicz July 5, 2023February 25, 2026

Supreme Court strikes down race-conscious admissions practices, impacting Pitt, CMU, Duquesne

by Emma Folts June 29, 2023July 2, 2023

Samantha Rodriguez outside of her home in Penn Hills. (Photo by Clare Sheedy/PublicSource)

Bivalent — or ambivalent? COVID is down but low booster rates could set stage for surge.

by Matt Petras June 29, 2023June 29, 2023