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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

Killing the Strip?

What will the development boom mean for the merchants that keep the Strip District funky?

UPMC’s board is a silent but powerful force in fate of region’s health care

As Youngstown’s paper prepares for final edition, its owner reflects on what went wrong

“Being a family operation, you tend to get close to your people … you make decisions you know are contrary to the correct business decision.”

Pittsburgh’s property lottery

Each year, hundreds of people apply to buy city-owned properties. Few get what they want, and those who do typically wait years.