Vladimir Putin came to Alaska and got the red-carpet treatment, complete with a fighter-jet flyover and a warm presidential handshake. The state was an ironic location for a summit given Russia’s continuing seller’s remorse over having sold it to America in the mid-19th century. While expectations were low for a full ceasefire, most observers were ...

Pittsburgh police on Friday said the string of sexual assaults they’re investigating on the North Side occurred overnight this summer around the East Ohio Street business district.

For the average person, artificial intelligence chatbots are a quick and easy way to find a trivia fact, homemade cookie recipe or even sample emails to send to your boss, but as this technology becomes widespread — infiltrating jobs and government offices — people do not realize the faults in AI’s overconfidence.

State police and volunteer firefighters were at a structure fire on Route 22 in Salem Friday.

A Pittsburgh man stole nearly $400,000 from his incapacitated grandmother while neglecting to pay the Monroeville nursing home where she lived, according to prosecutors.

Highlands School District will all but eliminate an electric bill for its greenhouse with the installation of solar panels.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move and suggested the central bank will proceed cautiously as it continues to evaluate the impact of tariffs and other policies on the economy.

Portions of Harrison are without power after two utility poles were hit in a single-vehicle crash Friday morning.

Police on Friday arrested three Pittsburgh teens in connection with the theft of a pickup truck in Franklin Park, the latest episode in what appears to be a recent rash of auto thefts and car break-ins throughout Allegheny County.

Pat McAfee, who was one of the top kickers and punters in the Big East Conference, became an All-Pro in the NFL and is now a sports media star, will join fellow West Virginia greats in the latest class of the school’s Sports Hall of Fame.

PennDOT announced that paving work with lane restrictions will be done Monday through Thursday on Ridge Road, Seven Sisters Road and Garretts Run Road in Kiski Township.

A fire tore through a Harmar garage Thursday night, leading a half-dozen local departments to fight the blaze.

New Kensington-Arnold School District’s superintendent says a new special education position will assist efforts to strengthen that department.

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When Jim Bonner retires next month as executive director of the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, he plans to steal away to the massive woodshop in the basement of his 1885 Victorian home in Tarentum.

As many in our business community know, the Westmoreland County Chamber of Commerce recently released the long-awaited feasibility and economic impact study for a hotel and conference center in our region. The results are not just promising — they are transformational.

Two people were hospitalized Friday morning after a crash involving a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus and a sedan in Pittsburgh’s Strip District.

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WASHINGTON — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.

Mike Tomlin unloads lots of horse manure when he preaches to the media. One of Tomlin’s greatest hits is that nonsense about “not living in our fears.”

Randy Stetor drives a 16-foot refrigerated truck to University Park in State College every two weeks and returns with 6,000 pounds of ice cream.

Historic charm meets modern luxury is how Racheallee Lacek describes a home built in 1910 in the heart of Lawrenceville.

Aspinwall officials recently welcomed a fresh face to the borough police force.

Pennsylvania State Police say a pair of masked children smashed their way into a Sunoco convenience store in Derry Township and stole more than $1,700 worth of vapes.

The pre-registration deadline for the annual Yough-N-Roll bicycle ride is Sept. 2 with the event taking place Sept. 13 on the Great Allegheny Passage.