A reduced workforce there is processing slabs from U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works in suburban Pittsburgh and holding out hope they can make steel again.

GEORGETOWN — A developer intends to purchase the idled Liberty Steel mill as part of a plan to redevelop Georgetown’s waterfront, state and local officials said. State Rep. Lee Hewitt ...

And with it go the hopes that the Liberty Steel Mill would reopen. "We felt like there was hope of it restarting," said James Sanderson, the president of United Steel Workers 7898. Those hopes ...