A question on the ballot will ask whether they want to lift county charter restrictions on how council is staffed and resourced. Voters could make it possible for members to receive taxpayer-funded health coverage and other benefits, and to open district offices.

Four legislators petitioned the state Supreme Court asking it to delay the effect of a ruling it made earlier. The court had determined that skill games — which are similar to slot machines but can be found almost everywhere except casinos — were illegal.

A leader in the Democratic National Committee, state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, is calling on Western Pennsylvania House member Aaron Bernstine to step down in the wake of a news report that Bernstine referred to Kenyatta with homophobic slurs during an argument with union leaders.

Gov. Shapiro’s administration sought to “modernize” the state’s public health regulations in the midst of a recent measles outbreak. But the GOP bristled at the proposed rules, arguing that they represented a potential return to the kind of mandates and controls that followed the COVID-19 pandemic.

As energy bills continue to rise, organizers said going solar can help people save. The group buying power of Solar United Neighbors’s Switch Together Greater Pittsburgh program means solar installers can offer rooftop energy systems at a 15 to 20% discount.

It all started with three strands of hair, shut for decades in a hand-edited version of the bible. But 15 years later, they’ve led to a new book that offers the best evidence yet that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved.

Philadelphia-area Democrats are pushing for more information about the operations of Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest immigrant detention center in the Northeast, as its current contract has been approved for an extension.

Bills in the state House and Senate propose new standards for 15 commercial appliances and household water fixtures; they include commercial ovens, fryers, and dishwashers, as well as gas fireplaces, toilets, and shower heads.

Last season included archery-controlled hunts in Frick, Schenley, Highland, Riverview, Emerald View, Hays Woods, McKinley, and Southside Parks, as well as Seldom Seen and Hazelwood Greenways. This year the program will add Sheraden Park and Spring Hill/Garden Greenway.

In late August, the U.S. Forest Service proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which prohibits new road building and logging in certain areas of national forests.

Liz Berlin remembers the moment it became clear what the music industry expected of her. It was 1996, and Berlin was the lone woman in a famous rock band: Rusted Root, the Pittsburgh-based worldbeat group that rose to international fame with its single “Send Me On My Way.”

A Jefferson County woman with measles has died, according to the county coroner’s office. The death is the state’s third tied to the measles outbreak this year. Pennsylvania’s outbreak has exploded to become the largest in the country with cases nearing 680 as of late last week.

Allegheny County is overhauling how it handles substance use disorder. The county’s new “Recovery Partnership Plan” shifts the plan from short-term to long-term rehab to treat addiction like the chronic condition it is.

Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh is the name of Pittsburgh’s newest theater company — the result of the merger of two of its oldest troupes. The group announced the name Monday, about a month after the formal merger of Pittsburgh Public Theater and the Pittsburgh CLO.

With the cost of ground beef at an all time high, Trump is allowing 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings to enter the United States over the next three months, at a reduced tariff rate, and sold at 25% below market prices.

“I had my son here. I’m not leaving. I’m not saying I won’t ever leave, but I don’t want to leave,” said Jimmy Alexandre, owner of Charleroi’s Haitian Resource Center. “I’m building something here. I’m making connections... I don’t want to leave all that to start it over.”

Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni later told local reporters that his office was investigating the death of an infant who tested positive for measles. He said an autopsy found that the baby died of a ruptured spleen, not the virus, though measles was detected in the postmortem analysis

The 10,000 sq. ft. main store is jam-packed with LPs. The section reserved for jazz, country and gospel alone is as large as many whole used record shops. Jerry’s might in fact be, as Weber used to claim, the biggest store in the nation dedicated to used vinyl.

The health department previously provided data at the state and county-level about childhood vaccinations. The new initiative follows a wave of reporting that found vaccination rates have been declining in schools across Pennsylvania for years, especially among kindergarteners.

Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously to formally ban police and city staff from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. Councilors put forward a multi-bill package at the end of March in response to ongoing concerns about ICE operations across the region.