Keystone Crossroads Archive

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announced that he wants to use the city’s stock of aging buildings as a tool for economic development. Bey ...

Pennsylvania’s Act 47 program for distressed municipalities has taken another case, agreeing to help the city of Shamokin fix its f ...

“It paid for my cars, my house. It did a nice job.” That’s what Gary Lightman, an attorney for the Pennsylvania State Po ...

 (Harrisburg) — Proposed legislation would establish a matching grant program to help municipalities combat blight, but wouldn ...

After a five minute drive through this Coal Region city, the state officials’ advice seemed redundant. Vacant stores prolife ...

It’s taken more than a decade, but another of Pennsylvania’s distressed communities might finally be on firm ground. L ...

Pittsburgh’s Recovery Coordinators have submitted a ...

The Urban League of Philadelphia is getting a new CEO. Rosalyn McPherson will take over fo ...

Pennsylvania’s workforce grew and unemployment rate dropped last year, even in its distressed communities, according to the Bureau ...

Twenty-seven year old Emily first experimented with drugs at a party when she was nineteen.  Soon, heroin became her drug of choice. ...

Pittsburgh’s Strip District has been added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic District. Ther ...

A new initiative will try to use blight as a vehicle for displaying artwork in Pennsylvania’s capital city. Instead of plain ply ...

Dauphin County’s examination of a regional police department is entering the formal stage. Commissioner Mike Pries first broached t ...

Pennsylvania’s population is growing fastest in the suburbs – and experts say the trend signals an abandonment of post-recession ...

Two more historic buildings in Pittsburgh’s downtown are set to be restored to their original grandeur. Mayor Bill Peduto announ ...