Pennsylvania has joined 21 other states in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. On March 19, Gov. Josh Shapiro signe...

A new Pittsburgh-branded marketing campaign titled “Forge On” — including bus wraps — will take over the Washington, D.C., metro area in June. Emily Hatfield, vice president of marketing and communica...

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Lawmakers in Washington are on pace to introduce more legislation this session than they have since the 1970s, but they’re also on pace to enact fewer bills and resolutions into law than they have in ...

“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned arou...

LONDON (AP) — Years before the rise of Instagram, Banksy figured out that the key to real influence lay in not being famous, exactly, but in being anonymous. The mystery of his identity has long been ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — At war with Iran, President Donald Trump is cycling through an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy was supposed to start the year with a bang, fueled by an unusually large jump in tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislation. Yet spiking gas price...

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By ALEXA ST. JOHN AND KIKI SIDERIS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — When gas prices spike, filling up gets more painful. But consumers can do something to stretch their fuel just a little farther: Chan...

Adapting to change has been Duquesne City School District’s story throughout the years. “We’re resilient,” said Jennifer Yocca, a 30-year employee of the district. “We always have intentional leadersh...

Officials credit the police entertainment patrol with helping to prevent chaos. Pittsburgh police bulked up foot patrols Saturday night in the city’s South Side as they braced for St. Patrick’s Day pa...

Phase 2 will include new baggage carousels. A shiny new $22 million expansion of the terminal at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport will be ready for passengers in late spring, officials said this week. T...

If the region’s five largest nonprofits had to pay taxes, they would together annually contribute about $133 million to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and Pittsburgh Public Schools, according to the Key...

By JULIA BURDELSKI, JUSTIN VELLUCCI AND MEGAN TROTTER TribLive Pittsburgh could be facing a severe budget shortfall of up to $40 million this year, according to projections revealed Thursday by Mayor ...

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Lynette Howell Taylor has seen the Oscars from a few different vantage points: As a nominee, in 2019 for “A Star is Born,” as a producer of the broadcast in 2020, as a member of the film academy’s boa...

By LINDSEY BAHR AND JAKE COYLE AP Film Writers Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months. But as good as some of this ye...

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