Kalliyan Winder
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NGN News Service
A downtown Pittsburgh congregation that used part of its building as a homeless shelter is searching for ways to stay in the century — old structure as it faces looming repair costs in the millions.
Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
Alayna Hutchinson
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90.5 WESA
Courtesy 412 Food Rescue
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A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a new sinkhole above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the night to try and find her. -
Pennsylvania has tens of thousands of farms, most family-owned. So who’s watching the animals when they’re gone? -
From Santa to sound baths, check out WESA’s guide below for things to do this holiday weekend. -
Parents, students and staff at Pittsburgh Conroy are urging school board members not to close their current building. The school serves nearly 200 students with developmental disabilities. -
Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief John Walsh died Thursday night while in command of firefighters at a structure fire in East Hills. -
A video exhibit at the center of the Pitt University Art Gallery offers a glimpse into a handful of golf courses throughout the Eastern United States that have been “Rewilded”. The Allegheny Land Trust is spearheading at this effort at the former Churchill Valley Country Club. -
In the face of persistent educator shortages, more and more school districts in the Pittsburgh region are looking inward to “grow their own” supply of teachers. -
The community’s biggest employer, Fourth Street Foods, relies on immigrant labor and it's leaders are making preparations for how to respond if Donald Trump is elected and implements an immigration policy that would make it difficult for its current workforce to stay. -
County elections staff will bring absentee ballots to the jail on Oct. 31 for those who requested them during a registration drive earlier this year. -
The president criticized what he called an "appalling surge of antisemitism" amid the war in Gaza. The 2018 attack claimed the lives of 11 worshippers from Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations, which shared space in the synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh's Jewish community.
