Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Thursday, April 3, 2025.

The Pittsburgh Pirates open their PNC Park season Friday, hosting the New York Yankees in a home opener for the first time in franchise history.

Nina Midgley Kelman jokes that she took over My Favorite Sweet Shoppe in 2014 because of one of its products, Mountain Magic Bites.

The same day a GQ magazine profile is published, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes led his team to its second win of the season.

In a small frame chapel on the old John Fox homestead, Fox Chapel United Methodist Church was established in 1891.

For almost two decades, Samantha Crain has toured more or less as a solo singer-songwriter, and her upcoming album “Gumshoe” explores steps in a different direction.

WASHINGTON — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to American presidents and civil rights icons.

Thursday’s “First Call” has pictures of Paul Skenes’ GQ photo shoot with Livvy Dunne. The Pittsburgh Penguins have a daunting task in St. Louis. The Steelers apparently pulled back from a quarterback inquiry.

Have no doubt, kindness is alive and well in our world. In addition to suffering from ALS, I recently spent over five weeks in the intensive care unit at UPMC Presbyterian hospital, where I was treated for pneumonia and respiratory failure. The doctors, technicians and other staff were fantastic and literally saved my life; however, the unsung heroes and ...

Here are a few morning news items from across the region for Thursday, April 3, 2025:

A state road connecting Sewickley Heights and Edgeworth that has been closed for more than four years is being repaired.

It’s Final Four week. But we’ve got many more entries than that for this week’s “U mad, bro?”

Acclaimed Pittsburgh-set ER drama “The Pitt” would be a hard act for any medical show to follow, but Netflix’s “Pulse” fares extremely poorly by comparison.

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When you have someplace to go and you own a car, your schedule can be in your own hands.

From late February through the first week of March, Ryan Shea felt as if he was playing some of, if not the best hockey of his professional career.

Jim Posney knows electrical supply better than most.

A judge will hear arguments next month in a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate a policy requiring GPS tracking of all Westmoreland County government vehicles.

Penn-Trafford High School’s upcoming performance of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” has taken senior Isaiah Cordera back to his childhood.

Norwin is partnering with the Pittsburgh Pirates to sell tickets to the Norwin Knights at PNC Park baseball game on May 4, an activity that also will help while helping to raise funds for the school district’s renovation projects at the Knights Stadium and the high school auditorium.

I believe the U.S. is in the throes of a constitutional coup, the seizure of power through exploitation of loopholes in the Constitution. Using the Project 2025 blueprint, democracy is being dismantled and replaced by an oligarchy composed of billionaires.

Going from March to April in high school baseball across the state provided a little bit of change in two classifications but status quo for the most part in the other four classes.