TONIGHT: Public hearing on proposed Propel Charter School on the Northside. Where: Conference Room A, 341 Bellefield Ave. When: 6:30 p.m. For more info, check out last Friday's blog post. TOMORROW: PresevePGH Meeting Where: New Hazlett Theater When: 6:30 - 8 p.m. What: Discuss PlanPGH's recommendati...

Propel Charter Schools has applied for a charter to put a school on the Northside, and Pittsburgh Public Schools is holding a hearing for the application (among others) on Monday, Dec. 6  at 6:30 p.m. in conference room A of its office at 341 Bellefield Ave. in Oakland. This will be the only public ...

Allegheny Elks Christmas Charities Fund Drive If you plan on donating money to those less fortunate this holiday season, the Allegheny Elks lodge is running its annual Christmas Charities Drive. The Elks have held the drive for the past 50 years.  They've collected thousands of dollars over those ye...

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...

On Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 5:30 p.m., Stage AE will host a free community open house to give Northsiders a chance to see the facility before it opens to the public for concerts this weekend. The Muddy Kreek Blues Band will perform during the open house, and Stage AE will accept donations to support mus...

Tired of having to choose between football and church? Calvary United Methodist Church in Allegheny West says you don't have to! "We gave up a long time ago on thinking that people wouldn't wear their Steelers jerseys to church, so we embraced it," said Calvary Chair of Communications Yvonne Hudson....

Photo courtesy stock.xchng The Parent/Teacher Organization of Pittsburgh King ALA is preparing their annual Christmas Angel Tree. The tree will consist of bells with the age and gender of a student at the school who would not normally receive a gift at Christmas time. More than 300 boys and girls fr...

Four months after a move from the Del Monte building to the EQT building next door, StarKist Co. hung its logo at the top of the building. On Friday, the "StarKist" logo and the company's mascot Charlie the Tuna went up on two sides of the building on the North Shore.  The company moved so it could ...

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Local writer and musician Lisa A. Miles will give a lecture and book signing before the Mexican War Streets Society's board elections on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church on W. North Avenue. Miles will lecture on her book, Resurrecting Allegheny City , which takes an hi...