Teenagers should be living a carefree life and spending time with friends and making new ones. Social media and gun violence has made it difficult for that to happen. If you have young children and or teenagers please remember how much they need our support to have a healthy social life. Check in wi...

*Editor’s note: This guest column was submitted by Observatory Hill resident David Bennett, with the support of City of Pittsburgh Park Ranger Nancy Schaefer. By David Bennett | Contributor We are lucky to have owls living in Riverview Park. Two of the species most often reported by birders are grea...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor Another month, another batch of results from The Northside Chronicle’s online polls. As a reminder, The Northside Chronicle posts a new poll every Sunday morning to our website, thenorthsidechronicle. com. The results of each month’s polls are reported in the followi...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist My “Ba-Ba” (grandmother) and mother were wonderful cooks. They concocted ethnic specialties from pierogies and halupki to German potato salad and potato pancakes. And like many great cooks, neither worked from recipes that were written down — just ones stored in their head....

Allegheny City Central House Advancements LLC to Oneills Invests LLC at 1428 Loraine St. for $175,000. Brighton Heights Steven Gais to Media Brown at 3940 California Ave. for $222,500. Estate of Mitchell Balant to Freedom Now Home Care LLC at 2042 Stonelea St. for $110,000. Heather Blaine to Jack an...

By NSC Staff A November 2022 article by Sean P. Ray, managing editor of The Northside Chronicle, is one of the finalists in the 2023 Golden Quills competition. The article " Catching up with the new principals " is a finalist in the category of Excellence in Written Journalism — Division 3, Educatio...

In June of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was still in its initial stages, the city’s Mexican War Streets Historic District saw a major expansion of its boundaries. It was the end result of years of municipal legal drama, but perhaps got overshadowed in the moment by the global outbreak. Howeve...

Back in January, we challenged our readers to show off their photography skills by announcing our first in what is planned to be a series of photo contests. The theme was “family traditions.” Now we have our first winner. Or, rather, winners. The black-and-white family photo submitted by Bill and El...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor EAST DEUTSCHTOWN — In the spring of last year, Garden Café owner Gayle McGarril got the idea to add a free community fridge to the exterior of her business. Inspired by examples of the concept in other areas, the fridge would be a source of free food for anyone in th...