Should you swim in Pittsburgh’s rivers? A water researcher breaks down the answer Pittsburgh’s three rivers are monitored for water quality under federal Clean Water Act standards. pawel.gaul/E+ colle...

I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later The colonists’ complaints listed in the Declaration of Independence are sti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Duane Mitchell has big plans for the United States’ 250th anniversary. Mitchell, a 78-year-old veteran in Montana, plans to take a red, white and blue 1954 Chevrolet pickup that he r...

IMAGINE SOMEONE PICKED the lock on your back door and walked inside. This person went through your mail, took your data and stole invasive and private images. It was all traded away to others, without...

By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November’s House midterm elections. But some experts think the results will be much closer than orig...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The complexities of the American story aren’t hard to miss. Just steps into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the gavel used by Nancy Pelosi when she became the ...

To the Editor: Being able to finally retire at the age of 73 should be a time of great celebration, but again I’ve been trumped. Again. Will I have my Social Security and Medicare, due to his Big Beau...

THE IDEA OF A SENIOR CENTER can feel stuffy and old. It brings to mind bingo and bridge. It shouldn’t. A senior center can be like “Cheers,” the place where everyone knows your name. That’s a good thi...

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT WE’RE nearing the end of June and community events are in full swing. Too often we hear people complain “there is nothing to do here,” but we beg to differ. Every week we pub...

To the Editor: Before Elizabeth Forward taxpayers are asked to pay more, they deserve one answer: where is the accountability? District officials say another tax increase is unavoidable. Business Mana...

By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment. Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation. Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the state...

COLLEGE IS MANY THINGS to many people. It may be the next logical step after high school. It may be a career change. What we often focus on is the financial weight of it. College comes with an increas...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Staff Writer tbrown@yourmvi.com If my mother were still alive, she would probably ask why I thought publishing this column was a good idea. Then she would likely not speak to me...

Tomorrow is Father’s Day — the day we celebrates dad — those who reliably bring home a paycheck, fix a leaky roof, provide an endless and sometimes-appreciated stream of parental advice and instinctiv...

To the Editor: As one of the few relatives within the Trump family dynasty to write and speak openly of Donald J. Trump, we got a bird’s eye view from a lifetime of observations. Those come from Donal...

DID A PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME Court ruling just change the game for Pennsylvania’s gambling industry? No, lawmakers did. Skill games are gaming machines that might look at home in an arcade or a casino. ...

It is perhaps the most fundamental question of the Iran war. If the goal of the war was to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and if the U.S. attack of June 21, 2025, either obliterated or ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By ANDRES CLARENS Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virgin...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Throughout history, rulers and political movements have used public spectacles of combat...

THERE IS A LOT OF FOCUS on the opioid epidemic and its fatal fallout. But opioids are only part of the problem. The larger issue is addiction. Like other diseases, addiction requires treatment. It req...