Stay healthy and connected with virtual resources from the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh. Photo courtesy of Pexels By Janine Faust  Through YWithYou, the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh makes education, fitness, and community programs and services available online. The YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh’s goal is t...

Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, or #TDVAM2020 on social media, is an effort of the Dads' Resource Center. Photo: February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Courtesy of Dads' Resource Center By Janine Faust This February, several nonprofits and health organizations are reminding young pe...

Pittsburgh Zone 1 police officers took students from Manchester Academic Charter School (MACS) to see mummies at the Carnegie Science Center as part of a new community outreach program.  Photo: Pittsburgh Zone 1 police officers join students from MACS to check out the "Mummies of the World" exhibit ...

Amidst heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S., a Mexican band’s cassette tape brings artists in Tehran and Pittsburgh together. Photo: "The Other Apartment," now exhibited on the fourth floor of the Mattress Factory, is an exact replica of Tehran-based artist Sohrab Kashani's apartment, locat...

When the Buhl Planetarium opened in 1939, it was the fifth major planetarium in the United States and helped pave the way for people to celebrate the sciences. Photo: The Buhl Planetarium circa 1939, the year it first opened in Pittsburgh's Northside. Courtesy of Carnegie Science Center By Haley McM...

By Alyse Horn-Pyatt Northside neighbors with small-scale projects are able to utilize the One Northside Mini-Grant program to get their ideas off the ground, with the next application deadline being Jan. 30, 2020. The program awards Northsiders $1,000 for their projects that demonstrate pledged supp...

Decisions will be announced in February 2020. By Alyse Horn-Pyatt Photo courtesy of Pexels The upcoming One Northside (ONS) Mini-Grant application deadline is January 30, 2020.  Project applications submitted to New Sun Rising (NSR) by this date will receive a decision in February 2020. Applications...

The center will be the "cornerstone" of a new $65 million campaign. By: NSC Staff Renderings courtesy of CCAC Renderings of a newly planned Workforce Training Center on CCAC’s Allegheny Campus in the Northside were distributed on Nov. 15. The center will be the “cornerstone” of a $65 million workfor...

Participants learned about police work and violence prevention. Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Photo: Participants in the six-week COPS & HOOPS program held at the Infinite Lifestyle Solutions teen drop-i n center in Brighton Heights sit in a "restorative circle." By Police Chief Scott ...

Tax season runs from January to mid-April 2020. By Haley McMonagle   Photo by Skitterphoto courtesy of Pexels United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania is seeking 500 volunteer tax preparers for their upcoming 2020 Free Tax Preparation Campaign. Tax season runs from January to mid-April 2020. Voluntee...