America at 250: West Virginia born amid chaos of Civil War
Science teacher Eric Selva is hopeful that the $5,000 Environmental Education grant he received from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in late April will help catalyze a transformation of the outdoor learning area at Charleroi Area High School, giving his students new ways to learn about agriculture. The grant awarded to Charleroi Area is among the $1,019,523 in funding disbursed to 46 environmental education-focused projects across the commonwealth in the latest round of DEP grant funding. “Environmental education is lifelong learning, and whether you are a kid or a kid at heart, these projects will help connect you to the ways we can protect the air we ...
A Washington-based real estate agent, the house she sold locally and the North Carolina transplants who bought it will be featured on national TV next week. “House Hunters,” a long-running reality series on HGTV, will stop in Southwestern Pennsylvania on Wednesday night for a show that ...
The rainy weekend weather didn't dampen the spirits of festival-goers who visited the Greater Pittsburgh Food Truck Festival at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, which kicked off its 10th year on Friday. The festival featured more than 50 of Southwestern Pennsylvania's best food trucks, ...
TORONTO (AP) — Esmerlyn Valdez homered for his first career hit, Spencer Horwitz and Oneil Cruz also connected and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. Valdez was promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis on Friday and had gone 0 for 7 ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Postseason baseball is coming back to Morgantown. The NCAA announced West Virginia baseball will be one of the 16 schools to host a regional for the NCAA baseball tournament. This is the first time the Mountaineers have hosted since 2019. WVU did a lot to get to this ...
TUESDAY, MAY 26 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m.
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal. The great horned owl somehow made his way into the truck-mounted mixer in late October and was discovered by workers pouring concrete at ...
