Writer and photographer Tim Palmer has a new book of essays and photographs called Watching the River Run: A Photographic ...

An angler caught the snakehead in Pittsburgh’s Duck Hollow section of the Monongahela River last week, according to social media reports. The angler killed the fish, which anglers are supposed ...

The landfill has applied for a permit to discharge treated leachate from its facility into the Monongahela River. According to the DEP, leachate is moisture produced by waste in a landfill and is ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black flies are ...

The acrid, yellowish gray blanket that began to smother the Monongahela River mill town in late October ... When, as a cub reporter in Pittsburgh, I phoned in a police report that gasping ...

First, CSX Transportation, Inc. closed the railroad crossing leading to McCrossin's Landing. Next, the business caught fire.

The Jones & Laughlin steel works in the city of Pittsburgh was among the first major steel operations to fall.

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania — The steep climb in the truck up from the Monongahela River to the entrance of the Mon Valley Works Irvin Plant is a picturesque reminder of just how much earth had ...

On January 31, 2025, fire destroyed what Sam McCrossin called a “labor of love”: a riverside marina that used to stand along the Monongahela River that he planned to reopen. Now, he’s ...

An asphalt link between some of Pittsburgh's most notable spots, the Three Rivers Heritage Trail lines the banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio waterways. The 24-mile-long path connects ...