Search for News

Pittsburgh Region

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Research Databases
If you are an Allegheny County resident with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card, you can access some of these databases from home. Use the "Newspaper" and "Magazine" databases to find both current and past news articles.
EIN Magazine and Newspaper Databases
If you are an Allegheny County resident with a library card from a municipality other than Pittsburgh, you can access some of these databases from home. Use the "Newspaper" databases to find both current and past news articles.
Infotrac NewsStand (subscription)
(Under "Newspapers / Magazines / Websites" in Access PA POWER Library)
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Search
Articles posted on post-gazette.com since 1998. Does not include the entire archives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Newslibrary.com
News Library at NewsBank. Use this site to search the back issues of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1990 for free and download articles for a fee.
Tribune-Review Website Search
Site search is limited to articles published on the website since 2001. Does not include all articles published by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Google News Search
Google's News Search presents information culled from many of the world's news sources collected over the previous week. You can also view versions for other countries. A nice feature is that you can subscribe to an email alert or RSS feed for a news search.
NewsLibrary.com
You can set up an account at this site and search the back issues of many newspapers from major cites in the United States and then pay a per article fee ($2.95). There is a reduced rate for article packs.
Topix.net
A news aggregator that pulls stories from news sources around the world and categorizes them by topic. RSS Feeds and email alerts also available by topic.