4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (597+ words) Joey Berumen paced up and down Broadway Avenue outside Las Palmas grocery store Wednesday around lunch time under a blistering late-summer sun. He held a walkie-talkie while he glanced around the road. He was looking for signs of Immigration and…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (555+ words) Stowe commissioners voted for a second time last night to overturn a taskforce agreement with ICE, following public opposition. Since the 287(g) agreement was first inked last November, Stowe police have conducted no operations with ICE, said commission President Jeff Paul…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1472+ words) Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato didn’t want to announce her pregnancy right away. She turned 40 this year, which makes her pregnancy higher risk. She didn’t experience morning sickness but she was tired during the first trimester. Between big events at…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (629+ words) Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission hit the brakes on a bill to limit Airbnb-style rentals while it awaits a legal review. The commission had been set to vote on whether to recommend the proposal to City Council but opted to table at…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1419+ words) Pittsburgh Regional Transit is forging ahead with a sweeping redesign of its network, even as the agency stares down a deficit next year that threatens to significantly cut service starting as early as 2028. “I see this as part of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1334+ words) HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro recently signed an executive order setting much stricter environmental and transparency standards for new data center developments in Pennsylvania. The order is sweeping. And the many things it does — and doesn’t — do to existing and future…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (844+ words) Springdale Borough Police Chief Derek Dayoub said he would not resign during a Monday borough council meeting, dismissed community members who have criticized him as a “small group of naysayers” and criticized Public Source’s reporting on allegations of misconduct against…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (322+ words) Hunger does not happen in a vacuum. It is built, policy by policy, narrative by narrative, into a country that has turned the simple act of feeding your family into something to be ashamed of. The fixes are not complicated....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (857+ words) In a narrow victory, Democrat Brandon Dukes won Pennsylvania’s 12th state House district in Tuesday’s special election. Dukes could be sworn in within the next few weeks and serve out the year, though he will face Republican Scott Timko again in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1012+ words) The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds. On Tuesday, Shapiro, a Democrat, said his administration would no longer put data center projects at the head…...