While both the Monongahela River and Allegheny Rivers both can freeze in the winter, the Allegheny River will be the river that freezes first in Pittsburgh. The biggest factor is the direction the ...

About 50,000 barges moved through the 23 locks and dams in the Pittsburgh region in 2024, carrying 140 million tons of commodities. On a bright afternoon at the Elizabeth Riverfront Park, a ...

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 ...

CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania — T he first steel plant located here along the Monongahela River just over 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was built in 1901. By 1903, the borough of Clairton formed around ...

Charles Jones, a professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Geology and Environmental Science, says flat land in Pittsburgh that's not right along a river is usually an ancient river bed.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Hundreds of people jumped into freezing cold water along the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh on New Year’s Day, all for a good cause. For hundreds, it’s a New Year’s ...

A missing Pittsburgh woman was found dead in the Monongahela River on Thursday. Pittsburgh police said emergency crews were called to the shoreline near the Sandcastle Water Park in West Homestead ...

The Ohio River forms in Pittsburgh's backyard, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers converge to create a waterway that spans nearly a thousand miles to Cairo, Ill. The river is much ...