1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (666+ words) “Oh, you’re who bought the old mattress factory.” Barbara Luderowski watched recognition spread across her new neighbor’s face. The former Stearns and Foster warehouse on Pittsburgh’s North Side seemed to already be a prominent character in the neighborhood. The space…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1172+ words) Erin Cochran has taken her dogs to what is now VCA Valley Vet Animal Hospital for almost 14 years. It sits less than a mile from her house in New Kensington, it was highly rated when she moved to the area,…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (513+ words) The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined Shell $15 million for air quality violations at its Monaca, Pa. plastics plant. The agency says between 2023 and August 2026, Shell’s plant, called an ethane cracker, exceeded limits on visible emissions set by its…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1321+ words) Still though, it was a tree. “This was a big, beautiful tree,” Murray said. “It was our only real shade.” Residents catching buses at nearby stops with neither shelter nor seats waited it out beneath its branches, resting in chairs…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) At first, it was just a fun experiment. In 2024, avid reader Brittany Mihalko Bozak started tracking how much money she was saving by borrowing books from the library instead of purchasing them for her personal collection. The number kept climbing....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1012+ words) The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds. On Tuesday, Shapiro, a Democrat, said his administration would no longer put data center projects at the head…...