The world of education is filled with hard workers — hard-working teachers, hard-working administrators and, of course, hard-working students. In recognition of the great students and schools in our neighborhoods, The Northside Chronicle is profiling just a few of them in this weekly blog feature. C...

Museum Director Jane Werner answers questions from Allegheny K-5 students at a press conference. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) Yesterday the Children's Museum announced a public capital campaign to raise $2.2 million for infrastructure improvements to the museum and to help fund a planned park in Allegheny C...

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and the Graf family (center) cut a ribbon to officially open the Priorty Hotel's expansion. (Photo/Jill McGlothlin) Yesterday Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Priory Group Vice President of Operations John Graf officially opened the Priory Hotel's 17-room expansion with a ribbon-cutti...

A $10 donation to the Red Cross on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at the Rivers Casino could get you a chance to win big. Rivers has teamed up with the Red Cross of Southwestern Pennsylvania for Red Cross Day.  From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 25, everyone who donates $10 to the organization will be able to spin th...

The world of education is filled with hard workers — hard-working teachers, hard-working administrators and, of course, hard-working students. In recognition of the great students and schools in our neighborhoods, The Northside Chronicle is profiling just a few of them in this weekly blog feature. C...

Two houses that feature murals based on works by COA's writers. Photo by The Northside Chronicle. City of Asylum/Pittsburgh hopes to meet its fund raising goal of $20,000 by tomorrow, Jan. 15 in order to receive a matching grant of $50,000. As of yesterday, the literary nonprofit that gives asylum t...

As part of our duty to keep our readers up to date on the latest Northside news, we publish Northside housing court cases as we’re made aware of them. We are unable to provide details on the specific violations at this time. We are also unable to provide details about individual rulings. Dates provi...

When June rolls around and its 90 degrees, you'll be wistfully thinking about all this nice, cool snow. The Carnegie Science Center suggests packing a few snow balls and banking them in your freezer. Oh yeah, and if you do, you can name your own admission price to the Science Center on the Summer So...

The world of education is filled with hard workers — hard-working teachers, hard-working administrators and, of course, hard-working students. In recognition of the great students and schools in our neighborhoods, The Northside Chronicle is profiling just a few of them in this weekly blog feature. C...

If you want a pet that will live almost as long as you and can even talk to you, a parrot could be the way to go. The only potential downside is that parrots can be hard to handle.  The National Aviary and the Parrot Education and Adoption Center have teamed up to offer a series of workshops on parr...