Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Bishop Mark Eckman ordained five men to the priesthood during a Mass of Ordination on June 27 at St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland.

Flyers warning residents about the coming Commercial Street Bridge replacement — and the shutdown of Parkway East — have landed in nearby mailboxes, setting the stage for the disruption ahead.

A Downtown Pittsburgh charity is donating more than $21 million to over 120 regional nonprofits spanning Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Fayette and Westmoreland counties.

Pittsburgh ranked among the cities with the most dog attacks on mail carriers last year, according to a report released by the U.S. Postal Service.

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, June 29:

A man was killed Sunday evening in a crash in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood.

A Pittsburgh police officer and a civilian driver were transported to the hospital in stable condition Saturday night after a police cruiser struck the civilian’s vehicle in Allentown.

The Northside Music Festival returns with a curated array of musical acts on the North Side’s streets and businesses from July 10-12.

Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver of a vehicle that they say fled after two vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian late Thursday night.

Pittsburgh is known as the Steel City, the gritty home of Gilded Age business magnates and orange-glow­­ing steel mills. But before the three rivers were packed with boats carrying steel, the confluence of those waterways brought agriculture, trade and even war to the region.