Water bills, trust fund draws and a growing deficit inspire finance reforms, while a zoning cleanup is held and a Market Square historic marker gets a petition.

First phase of the permitting overhaul is held at the administration’s request.

A bill that would take the first step to overhaul Pittsburgh’s permitting system was held by council at the mayoral administration’s request.

Residents petition for a hearing to replace a missing workplace safety marker in Market Square.

Though the Downtown steel mills are long gone, some residents think that a remembrance of the people who died in them should not be.

Proposed bills would offer council budget training and put quarterly finance sessions into law.

Pittsburgh City Council would like to put an end to receiving financial surprises.

Pittsburgh City Council advances $340M in new on-call vendor contracts, a vendor review system, and a tree study after illegal cutting.

$340 million in contracts for 96 vendors moves forward without department details.

Even as the spotlight shines brightly on city spending, Pittsburgh City Council remains inconsistent with addressing requests that lack specificity.

A new review system might help the city weigh past performance before renewing a contract.

When it comes to renewing contracts, the city currently can’t account for poorly completed services.

A half mile of trees illegally cut down along the Ohio Riverfront Trail leads to a two-year tree study.

The city is planning to spend more than $4,000 to count city trees that were cut down by a property owner in order to determine the restitution needed.

EMS providers get a faster path to $1 million in opioid settlement relief.

Allegheny County is ready to disburse money from the opioid settlement fund to emergency medical services (EMS) after nearly a year of planning.

Council asks to sit in on the court fight over its $1.5 billion-short pension fund 🔗.

The governor and the general assembly are now on deck to potentially intervene to right the county employees’ sinking pension fund.

EMS providers near $1 million in opioid relief, county council seeks a place in its $1.5 billion pension fight, and door-to-door reassessment could cost $50 million.

Door-to-door reassessment could cost $50 million and bring a wave of appeals.

Council’s assessment practices committee did not come to any conclusions when it  met Sept. 14 to continue discussion about the looming county-wide property reassessments.

City closes North Side space that provided drop-in support for unhoused residents.

An expired lease is uprooting the Reaching Out on the Streets (ROOTS) drop-in location on the North Side.

A will of council urges county lawmakers to require paid parental leave.

After a unanimous recommendation by the Allegheny County Board of Health on Sept. 28, the decision of whether to require businesses to provide paid parental leave will now go to Allegheny County…

City council urges support for 12-week paid parental leave while an expired lease shutters ROOTS on the North Side.

Speakers warn that surveillance technology threatens civil rights.

Council is studying the use of surveillance technology by local governments after receiving a report on it earlier this month.

Golden Horizons would bring a 55+ community with pickleball to Banksville.

A senior housing community that is planned for Banksville is set to clear another hurdle when council accepts the Pittsburgh Planning Commission’s recommendations and rezones the former Vincential…

Paving becomes the quickest way to use up unspent pandemic aid.

With three months of the year remaining, the city may pour its remaining American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding onto the streets.

Experts call the surveillance report just a starting point, $346,683 in pandemic aid moves to paving, and a Banksville site advances toward 124 townhomes.

Council pauses a $50,000 Vibrant Pittsburgh membership renewal to ask what it delivers.

A request to renew membership with Vibrant Pittsburgh illuminated a new concern for council.

Pittsburgh faces no fines for its 4,000+ code violations while a $50,000 Vibrant Pittsburgh membership renewal goes on hold.