Pittsburgh officials spent much of 2025 arguing about how grim the city’s financial situation was.

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, Feb. 25:

Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Eric Sloan’s nomination to head the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Barbara Melone saw “huge, black, billowing” clouds of smoke from her eighth-floor balcony at the Sunset Plaza Beach Resort & Spa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the start of the week.

Tuesday marks the University of Pittsburgh’s 10th annual Day of Giving.

Residents in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood won’t be living alongside a waste transfer station after Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation keeping such facilities away from homes.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center has secured its first tenant ahead of the $100 million facility’s opening celebration Friday.

At Allegheny Health Network, there were a record number of births in 2025 across all of its labor and delivery units.

Police have charged a woman they say threatened secretaries in the Pittsburgh Public Schools with physical harm.

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Feb. 24: