The Latest Breaking News from Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — Russell Hornsby met August Wilson in 1995 as a senior at Boston University. The late playwright and Hill District native brought his then-new play "Seven Guitars" to a nearby theater and took an interest in Hornsby, one of the few Black aspiring actors at BU.

These "inclusionary zoning" policies have a record of increasing housing costs and suppressing new housing supply.

PITTSBURGH — For its 2022 ambassador, Record Store Day turned to one of the industry's brightest stars, Taylor Swift, who has said she tours with a turntable in hand and who, last year, released a vinyl version of "Red" that had fans thinking theirs was broken: You had to play…

Pittsburgh’s police chief says an officer who went to a short-term rental property where a party was going on shortly before gunfire broke out, killing two youths, saw nothing to suggest it was anything other than an ordinary noise complaint

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police on Monday confirmed an officer had responded to a noise complaint at a North Side home late Saturday night, just 90 minutes before gunfire rang out through the building and on nearby streets, killing two teenagers and injuring several others in one of the largest mass…

I am and never have been a big fan of minor league football or spring football for a variety of reasons. It always feels contrived, there are always silly rules to trick up the games and create buzz, and most importantly, it is an inferior product.

At least three people were killed and dozens were injured in Pittsburgh, Portland, and South Carolina

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama has been leaderless for more than a year and a half. Now we finally know who will be stepping up to fill that void.

PITTSBURGH — The scale of the mass shooting at a North Side Airbnb early Sunday remained apparent Monday morning. Bullet holes in the building that hosted about 200 people — many of them underage — and surrounding structures and cars laid bare a chaotic scene, one in which two 17-year-olds…