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The wearable full-body machine helps paralyzed patients stand up and walk. The exoskeleton was purchased thanks to a fundraising effort in honor of a North Catholic High School student who suffered a spinal stroke in 2020.
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Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato marked her first year in office last week and spoke about assessments, the county budget and more in a wide-ranging interview with WESA.
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The Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition, launched this month, is working across sectors to bring awareness to what they’re calling a “literacy crisis” among Pennsylvania students. -
The Pennsylvania Farm Show welcomes birds for the first time since 2022. While there are no reported commercial or backyard bird flu cases in Pennsylvania, cases are on the rise nationwide, including the first confirmed human death in the U.S. -
The Pittsburgh Steelers play the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. in the opening round of the NFL playoffs. -
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Marya Sea Kaminski is leaving Pittsburgh Public Theater after seven years as artistic director. -
At the Pennsylvania Farm Show dairy cows as big as trucks are guided through crowds for baths amongst a chorus of moos. Children fish for baby trout. And attendees slurp down the show’s iconic milkshakes. -
Pittsburgh-headquartered EQT has launched a campaign to “unleash” liquefied natural gas exports. Trump may provide a boost, and economists say it could actually make domestic gas more expensive. -
“Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture” was organized for the August Wilson African American Cultural Center by Phillip Thompson. You might know him as DJ Big Phill, one of the city’s most popular record-spinners.
Over the holidays, the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, John Robinson Block, opened his door to a staff photographer who had been on strike for more than two years. Two days later, he opened his home again to WESA to talk about what happened.
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It’s been a long time since either Notre Dame or Penn State reached college football’s mountaintop as national champions. It was 1988 for the Fighting Irish, 1986 for the Nittany Lions. -
The case filed Tuesday in Scranton federal court argues that Hazleton is violating the federal Voting Rights Act. -
Watch some international arthouse classics at the Harris Theater, check out an exhibit of "New Vantages of American Arts" in Sewickley or enjoy beloved classics by Debussy and Sibelius by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — here's what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend. -
Criminal justice advocates voiced tentative support for County Executive Sara Innamorato’s choice of Trevor Wingard as the jail’s next leader -
Mario R. Rossero, who started his career at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh three decades ago, has been named its new executive director.
