Ken Fellows has been fishing off and on all his life. Last year, he decided to try his hand at turtles. He caught one near his favorite fishing hole along Montour Run, west of Downtown Pittsburgh “I ...

This week, a special show of award-winning and recognized stories. What advocates and residents who live near U.S. Steel plants are saying about the Trump administration's policies on the pollution ...

Pollution from the Pittsburgh airport has found its way into a nearby stream. Scientists are looking into how PFAS forever chemicals got there and what happens next. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Summer temperatures are already soaring in some parts of the world. The UK and Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave in May. As extreme weather events become more common with climate change, ...

In the same week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would give Pennsylvania more than $39 million to address PFAS contamination in drinking water, the agency also said it ...

For decades, the airport used PFAS-containing firefighting foam. Now, the stream that captures the airport’s runoff has the "forever chemicals." ...

A new study shows rising temperatures around the world are associated with a higher risk of kidney disorders.

This story was first published December 12, 2025. It was a finalist for a 2026 Golden Quill from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania for Excellence in Audio Journalism in the history category. A ...

This story was first published September 12, 2025. Americans discard millions of tons of food every year, not only wasting the resources it took to produce and transport that food but also ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is stocking mussels in Dunkard Creek 16 years after pollution annihilated life in the stream.

This story was first published on August 22, 2025. NOTE: Since this story was first published, the Trump administration decided against writing their own rule for steel industry emissions. Instead, it ...

Kathy Knauer has been the executive producer for The Allegheny Front since 1995. She is responsible for overseeing the news operations, developing collaborations with other news organizations and ...