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How a photo taken around Labor Day 1913 affected a Pittsburgh family for generations

A working family’s journey of loss and resilience

Inventing Anna

The tale of a fake heiress, Mar-a-Lago and an FBI investigation

Ghost Stories

McKeesport’s Fifth Avenue: A once and future main street?

Left behind

Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh’s star factory

How the CMU School of Drama is working to broaden its definition of a star

Decades of neglect: Fern Hollow Bridge inspection recommendations repeatedly ignored years before collapse

For a quarter century, inspectors urged repairs on the Fern Hollow Bridge, but Pittsburgh failed to carry out most of the work

Crossroads Wilkinsburg

Wilkinsburg slid from prosperity in the 1950s to struggles with integration, mismanagement, crime and blight. Now on more stable footing, it faces a decision: To continue an independent course or become Pittsburgh’s 91st neighborhood.

The Gainey family has a long history of firsts in Pittsburgh

As a pregnant teenager, the mayor’s mother almost gave him up for adoption

A triumphant, tangled legacy: Ed Gainey’s Virginia and Pittsburgh roots run deep

Pennsylvania blocks critical details of state’s most decrepit bridges from public view

Post-Gazette reveals secret inspection data that state has banned from public view