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Wednesday’s press conference to introduce Mike McCarthy as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ new head coach generated two main topics for discussion.

With about a foot of snow blanketing Tarentum on Monday morning, Linda Gromley knew it was time to help herself.

For more than a month, the puck simply refused to go in the net for Ben Kindel.

Plenty of musicians do a fine job of entertaining audiences with takes on familiar songs.

Last Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s worth remembering that King’s dream was never meant to be recited once a year — it was meant to be practiced. Right now, one of the most urgent places to practice it is immigration policy.

Laurel: To real-life learning. When winter storms dropped more than a foot of snow across Southwestern Pennsylvania, young people responded the same way — by getting to work.

When irreplaceable spaces disappear from the Pittsburgh landscape, the damage to historical records is permanent.

Here is a weekly look at recent images captured throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley.

The 2026 WPIAL girls basketball regular season is down to a little over week left as the district playoff field is starting to take shape with 50 teams having punched their ticket to participate in the February Frenzy.

EVANSTON, Ill. — Nick Martinelli scored 34 points, and Tre Singleton notched a massive double-double as Northwestern beat Penn State, 94-73, on Thursday night.

Emma Larkin scored the second-most points in a game in WPIAL girls basketball history Thursday night, finishing with 62 in a 106-19 Geibel Catholic victory over Mapletown (2-17, 1-10) in Section 2-A.

It’s safe to say that after a frigid and snow-covered week, it’s about time to shake off that cabin fever and rejoin the world for some good times away from your couch. Here are a few events around town to cure those cold feet and winter blues.

BELZONI, Miss. — Hundreds of National Guard troops in ice-stricken Mississippi and Tennessee mobilized Thursday to clear debris and assist people stranded in cars or stuck at homes still without electricity as Southern states raced to recover from a crippling winter storm before another blast of dangerous cold hits.

Sidney Crosby is well educated on winning.

SAN DIEGO — Justin Rose had birdie chances on all but one hole Thursday and turned that into a 10-under 62 on the easier North course at Torrey Pines, giving him a one-shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open on a day that marked the return of Brooks Koepka from LIV Golf.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Joe Brady did not dismiss the past while looking ahead to leading the Buffalo Bills into the future as their head coach.

Patrick Kane is the highest-scoring U.S.-born player in NHL history.

The switch came on, just when Jeannette needed it.

Some residents of Smith Township were put under a shelter-in-place order Thursday evening by Washington County officials after a reported explosion at a metal fabricating plant.

Coaches who have worked with him say Dylan Pitzer might have only scratched the surface of his capabilities as a football player.

The Burrell girls basketball was comfortably in contention for a WPIAL playoff spot heading into its Section 1-4A matchup Thursday evening at Freeport.

Larry Cervi, who spent decades shaping students and stages as an educator and performing arts director across the Pittsburgh region, was a people person at heart.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Drake Maye wasn’t shocked by the attention paid to the shoulder issue that landed him on the Patriots’ injury report less than two weeks before the Super Bowl.