A draft of the 2020 Allocation Plan created for the City of Pittsburgh's Housing Opportunity Fund (HOF) is now available online for public comment. By Ashlee Green Photo by Mark Moz via Creative Commons The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) is now taking public comment on a draft of ...

After five months of surveying city of Pittsburgh residents to gather feedback about their parks, the results are in. Story and photo by Ashlee Green It's confirmed: This November, there will be a city parks tax referendum on the ballot. Jayne Miller, president and CEO of Pittsburgh Parks Conservanc...

Photo by Lauren Stauffer PennDOT District 11 is announced overhead sign structure work on the I-279 Parkway North Improvement Project in the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County will begin tonight, Monday night, July 29 weather permitting. Sign improvement work will occur from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. in th...

The Northside property, which formerly housed the Rosa Villa restaurant and bar, has been demolished. Story and photos by Ashlee Green The Rosa Villa property, located at the corner of East General Robinson and Sandusky Streets and across the street from The Andy Warhol Museum, has been demolished. ...

A new $80 million cancer treatment facility at Allegheny General Hospital in the Northside is set to serve as the "nucleus" for greater cancer care throughout the region. Photo courtesy of Highmark Health The final steel beam for the Academic Cancer Center, a new $80 million facility set to open in ...

The family bakery, opened by Thomas Schorr on Perrysville Avenue in 1973, is unlikely to reopen after the owner’s surgery. By Alexander Oh After more than 40 years of serving delicious baked goods, both the Observatory Hill and West View locations of the Schorr Family Bakery will close their doors o...

Bobby Wilson, winner in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, is one step closer to the District 1 seat on Pittsburgh City Council. By Ashlee Green Photo by Lauren Stauffer Bobby Wilson won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, beating out Councilwoman Darlene Harris and Mark Brentley, Sr. In a phone inte...

The URA approved a proposal package yesterday for the sale of demolished Garden Theater Block sites to Trek Development Group and Q Development. Plans for the remaining building* in the block will be separate from new construction at the demolished building sites. By Ashlee Green Photos by Lauren St...

The Northside portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail was renamed the Thomas J. Murphy Trail to recognize the efforts of the former Pittsburgh mayor in the 1990s to develop the city's riverfront trail network. Photo by Clifton Loosier A public hearing was held on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 1:30 p.m. at ...

Frank Rossi leaves behind an iconically Pittsburgh culture of harmonic community through banjo and goodwill. Forward by Lauren Stauffer On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 founder of Pittsburgh Banjo Club, Frank Rossi, passed away. Legendary in the Pittsburgh music community, and well known to Northside f...