News

Faces of COVID-19

Local victims of the pandemic

At Hug Me Tight, no more hugs for now

The challenges of child care in the age of COVID-19

Lessons on the radio, in the parking lot

Region’s schools work to teach around holes in the internet

The Coronavirus

From Chile to Pittsburgh to Matamoros

One woman mobilized her region to help migrants in limbo in Mexico

Next-door noise

Washington County residents say their neighbor is noisy, disruptive and a pollutor. Their neighbor is a compressor station, and it’s a quarter-mile away.

The Wilkinsburg Mass Shooting

‘The issue of our time’

In a region that has long accepted pockets of high child poverty, some leaders are no longer resigned to a future without solutions for kids.

In Leechburg, an elementary school stands against a tide of poverty

In the Kiski Valley, mill closures helped push half the kids into poverty, forcing a principal and his staff to change their thinking.

A wee spark of hope

Two years into Scotland’s bid to end child poverty, a notorious neighborhood tests the nation’s resolve — and its fate may send a message to crusaders for poor kids everywhere