Quaker Valley School District officials have inked a new five-year deal with the district’s busing company.

Some Westmoreland quarterbacks did more damage with their legs than their arms in the opening week of the football season.

Owners of the Pittsburgh Mills mall are fixing potholes along the mall’s Butler-Logan Road entrance.

RICHFIELD, Minn. — Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, for connections to the church and its school to understand the motivation for the attack.

The Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System has revived a town hall tour in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio after abruptly canceling it last month.

WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed.

Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Thursday, August 28, 2025.

As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” That’s exactly what adult literacy programs do — they provide people with the tools and confidence to take control of their futures, giving them the skills they need to build careers, get good jobs and make lasting progress in ...

Fox Chapel council and law enforcement officials said they are closer to finalizing a new contract.

Each week throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look at the players, coaches and events that shaped our scholastic legacy.

Most of the attention on the Steelers’ secondary has been centered on new guys coming in and some key contributors heading out.

Leave it to Deion Sanders to come up with an idea for the College Football Playoff that nobody has really mentioned yet: Pay the players for making the tournament, and pay them more when their teams win.

Shaler police are responding to an incident Thursday morning near Shaler Area High School.

Students were driven in cars, rode bicycles, cruised on scooters and walked on foot to arrive for the first day of school at Quaker Valley Middle School on Aug. 20.

It was 1969 when a group of college-aged boys gathered in St. Martin’s Hall at Duquesne University to ignite a grassroots effort to return football to the Bluff.

While watching the local TV coverage of the horrible Clairton Coke Works explosion, I noticed that the hillside across the river from the Clairton plant is covered with vegetation. I was surprised. While I was growing up in the Mon Valley that hillside was bare. Nothing would grow on it because of the air pollution. I don’t know when the vegetation ...

Harrison still needs a fifth township commissioner.

MINNEAPOLIS — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year.

LOS ANGELES — A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, Aug. 28:

A group of dedicated volunteers is aiming to spread the word about a new resource addressing potential human rights issues in Aspinwall.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital with drones and missiles early Thursday, including a rare strike in the city center, killing at least 15 people and wounding 48, local authorities said.

BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week, the two countries said Thursday, in an event that would bring him together with a group of world leaders for the first time since taking office in late 2011.

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The fall 2025 TV season brings with it few new daytime syndicated series, so perhaps what will be of most interest to viewers of the access hour, 7-8 p.m. weekdays, is what will become of “Wheel of Fortune” (7 p.m.) and “Jeopardy!” (7:30 p.m.) on WPXI when NBC starts airing NBA games Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. beginning Oct. 21.