The new year brings a wave of new laws in the Keystone State and Pittsburgh. Why it matters: The changes will influence how we work, learn, drive and pay taxes. By the numbers: Pennsylvania lawmakers passed roughly 65 bills last year,

Block Communications Inc., the Toledo-based company that owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also recently shut down the Pittsburgh City Paper, a 34-year-old weekly publication it purchased in 2023. A 154-year-old newspaper, the weekly Clinton County Record, formerly the Renovo Record, ceased publishing with its Dec. 31 edition.

For Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, the weather service has issued a weather advisory, saying freezing rain could create between a glaze to 0:1 inch of ice on roads and surfaces from Friday morning through 3 p.