Essie’s Original Hot Dog Shop, known around Oakland as The O, has closed its doors for good, a longtime manager confirmed Sunday.

Mihrigul Tursun tearfully recalled on Tuesday the torture she suffered in the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps in Xinjiang, China. “I asked why I was in prison. I asked why I was tortured,” Tursun ...

Transgender scholar Deirdre McCloskey has dropped out of an on-campus debate against conservative political commentator Michael Knowles about “transgenderism and womanhood” next week, and the ...

Grushecky remembers the concert as monumental for the city, as well as Oakland. It was one night out of more than two decades of a thriving music scene in Oakland that brought in a diverse array ...

About 200 students protested at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard Monday afternoon, chanting “hate speech isn’t free, it costs lives” and carrying signs with phrases such as ...

Pitt community members reflected on the 10-year anniversary of the 2012 bomb threats, and the fear and stress they caused.

TPN File Photo Meet the nominees for the Spirit of Pitt awards, established during last year’s Homecoming and organized by the Pitt Alumni Association.

Being vegan isn’t necessarily more ethical or more sustainable than eating a diet that includes meat and other animal products. In fact, depending on people’s consumption choices, being vegan can be ...

A 2-acre man-made lagoon is coming to the city’s North Side as part of the planned mixed-use Esplanade development planned along the Ohio River.

The next elected governor of Pennsylvania should be an outsider — someone who knows the value of hard work, but isn’t a career politician and can shake up the lackluster economy and fiscal instability ...

But that all begs the question, what the hell did we say before those words became commonplace in our vernacular? What if “copulation” just seemed too formal for the moment? I decided to look deeper ...

For Pitt students who get tired of on-campus dining options, they don’t have to journey far — or dip into their cash — to try something new. Since the change in Pitt’s meal plan programs last year — ...