Julia Maruca
City Government ReporterJulia Maruca reports on Pittsburgh city government, programs and policy. She first began working with WESA as a production assistant intern on The Confluence. She previously covered the Westmoreland County regions of Hempfield and Greensburg along with health care news for the Tribune-Review. Before that, she wrote about southwestern Butler County for the Butler Eagle. Based in Pittsburgh, Julia grew up in the North Hills and is a Boston University graduate.
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Dozens of Pittsburgh residents packed a heated City Council public hearing Wednesday night to cheer, jeer, and express their opinions about proposed zoning rule changes. -
Free spaying and neutering – for both house pets and cats brought in off the street – could soon return to Pittsburgh. -
Pittsburgh City Council is ready to reconsider making some types of homeless housing more feasible – and its sponsors hope to allow the measure to be considered independently of more controversial zoning changes. -
With the opening of the OneStopPGH service counter at 412 Boulevard of the Allies Monday morning, three city departments are now officially under one roof. -
The manager will work to bring more businesses into the vacant storefronts on Carson Street, keep existing ones interested in staying in the neighborhood, and promote the neighborhood in general. -
In a budget address to Pittsburgh City Council that lasted more than an hour and a half, Mayor Ed Gainey spent little time talking about the proposed 2025 budget itself. -
Three City of Pittsburgh departments will finally have an in-person home again later this month. -
Local officials are looking with some trepidation towards a second Donald Trump presidency, but this week assured residents that they plan to look out for the city’s interests. -
In Allegheny County, a Republican incumbent kept her seat in the state House 44th District, while a win by another Republican candidate in the 28th District kept that seat red as well. -
Through an Election Day that many Americans viewed with trepidation, Allegheny County reported a near-total absence of problems at its more than 1,300 precincts. Elsewhere in the state, however, multiple bomb threats were called in for polling locations and municipal buildings, but none presented a credible risk to the public, Gov. Josh Shapiro said.
