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I’s just like any other art school, except this one doesn’t cost anything to attend. Oh, and it doesn’t actually have a building. And its students are four feet tall.

Following years of effort, New Kensington's Corridor of Innovation will have its first official public debut Saturday, when organizers showcase their efforts during an Art and Music Festival. That festival is part of an initiative to establish a zone of economic revitalization between the 700 and 1100 blocks of Fifth Avenue.

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has named Tia-Lynn Ashman and James Pipas as recipients of one of its New Initiatives grants for their project “Pollen as the next viral frontier: Unrecognized threat to food security and native biodiversity.” Ashman is a Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution, and Pipas is the Herbert W.

Findings in New Study have Dire Implications for the Commonwealth Fiscal decay has accelerated in all types and sizes of Commonwealth municipalities over the last 24 years, jeopardizing Pennsylvania’s health and economic competitiveness, according to a compelling new Pennsylvania Economy League (PEL) report, “Communities in Crisis: The Truth and Consequences of Municipal Fiscal Distress in Pennsylvania, 1970 – 2014.”

At the corner of Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown New Kensington, there used to be a theater where Jenny Nolen saw movies for a quarter.

With ongoing Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts and the threat of devastation from Hurricane Irma, many Americans psychologically feel the need to help. Last week, the Pittsburgh Foundation donated $50,000  in disaster relief to the Texas coast  and asked area residents to join them in contributing. “We are Pittsburghers; we are Southwestern Pennsylvanians,” Foundation President and CEO Maxwell King said in a statement. “At a time such as this, it is what we are called to do.”

The Pittsburgh Foundation is donating $50,000 to its Houston counterpart to help with recovery from the devastation in Texas from Hurricane Harvey. The money is going to an emergency fund, the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, that was established at the Greater Houston Community Foundation.

To assist in the immediate emergency response to devastating rains and floods along the Texas Gulf Coast, The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Board has approved an emergency $50,000 grant to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund at the Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Most of Westmoreland County's volunteer fire departments will share a $4.33 million federal grant to recruit and train up to 500 new firefighters, officials said Thursday. The “Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response,” or SAFER, grant from FEMA will cover a variety of costs, including advertisements to recruit volunteer firefighters, paying tuition for training at Westmoreland County Community College's expanding Public Safety Training Center, purchasing gear and providing retention incentives such as free life insurance.

The Pittsburgh Foundation is donating $50,000 in disaster relief to help those in need after Hurricane Harvey devastated the Texas coast. The foundation's board approved the money as an emergency grant to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund at the Greater Houston Community Foundation.