All season long, North Hills softball coach Libby Gasior raved about the depth of talented, capable teams in Class 5A of the WPIAL.

By all accounts, the 2026 season for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds has been a work in progress towards a new beginning under coach Rob Vincent. The club he took over in mid-October last year is not the same one he now pilots.

SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. And now they’re the Champion Knicks.

Rob Schilling, one of the owners at Sand Hill Berries in Mt. Pleasant, has been bringing his produce to Ligonier during the growing season for more than two decades.

Ash Franzetti, 42, a trans woman from Greensburg, waved happily to cars passing by the Westmoreland County Courthouse on Saturday afternoon as they honked in support.

When Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher and Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes recently dropped by a local Little League ballfield and played catch with the kids, he created a lifetime of memories for the Little Leaguers and made national news. It was hard to tell who was having more fun — neither Skenes nor the kids could stop smiling.

The Greensburg Business & Professional Association, better known as Shop Greensburg, hosted “Greensburg Celebrates America 250: Salute to Service” on Saturday at St. Clair Park.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The PIAA Class 2A boys lacrosse championship game between Mars and Penncrest lived up to expectations.

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters took to the streets of Romania and Bulgaria’s capitals on Saturday for their annual Pride parades, against a backdrop of rising opposition from conservative groups in the Orthodox Christian countries.

It might go down as one of the iconic moments of the 2026 World Cup.

The Kittanning Firemen’s Band performed under the sun outside the Armstrong County Courthouse in Kittanning on Saturday, three weeks ahead of it representing the borough, the county and all of Pennsylvania in the National Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C.

UNIVERSITY PARK — At the start of the WPIAL softball playoffs, Hempfield battery mates Julia Varhola and Ella Berkebile stumbled upon a good-luck charm.

A roofer sustained life-threatening injuries Friday after falling 30 to 40 feet at Robert Morris University in Moon.

Ken Morrow liked to consider himself the answer of a trivia question as the only hockey player who won an Olympic gold medal and hoisted the Stanley Cup in the same year.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Landisville Hempfield and North Allegheny are familiar teams on the Pennsylvania boys volleyball stage as they have combined for 19 state titles and over 35 championship berths.

LONG POND — Christopher Bell will race at Pocono and possibly the next month or so with a cast on his left wrist.

It was business in the front and a party in the back — and on the water — along the Youghiogheny River on Saturday afternoon, as the region’s lads with lengthy locks lined up for the annual “Yough River Rat” mullet contest.

Five district teams showed they truly have the power of a PIAA champion as they have returned from Penn State with state gold.

It was a near sweep for the east over the west in the six 2026 PIAA baseball championships at Penn State this past week.

It was a historic run for District 7 in the 2026 PIAA softball playoffs.

The Pittsburgh Pirates will take wins whichever way they come.

The Pittsburgh Pirates made a flurry of roster moves ahead of their Saturday afternoon game vs. the Miami Marlins at PNC Park.

A resident of a Downtown Pittsburgh halfway house died Saturday morning, an Allegheny County Jail spokesman said.

It’s time to look past the slogans and face the reality of what the MAGA movement has actually brought to this country: political violence, chaos, corruption, division and complete abandonment of traditional American values.