In 1955, 67-year old Emma "Grandma" Gatewood became the first woman solo thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. She would go on ...

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Former DEP secretary David Hess says a Senate bill is meant to punish communities that try to protect their health and ...

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative requires fossil fuel burning power plants to pay for carbon dioxide emissions. But is ...

Landforce and its partners planned to expand their workforce development efforts in landscaping and upcycling wood waste. Now ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Photographs by Quinn Glabicki. It took four Noongar men to hoist the warm, lifeless kangaroo onto the hooked limb from which they skinned and gutted ...

Kyra is a 2025 summer intern for The Allegheny Front. She is a rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh studying history ...