The annual Light Up Night celebration will return to Downtown Pittsburgh in November after being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. This year, festivities will take place on the Saturday before Thanksgiving instead of Friday, when it was traditionally held.

The agency saw an uptick in ticket sales, but remains below budget.

On today’s program: We hear how waivers that provided more flexibility and eased administrative burdens helped medical facilities face the pandemic, but they’re set to expire later this month; an obstetrician-gynecologist explains why a new bereavement leave policy for city employees will help those facing pregnancy loss; and a conversation about the increasing mental health needs of children and teenagers in the pandemic.

A Syrian refugee is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to charges that he plotted to bomb a North Side church three years ago in an effort to inspire followers of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to court records. Federal investigators in June 2019 charged Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 23, with one count of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive device or weapon of mass destruction.

Many Downtown workers have not gone back to the office yet. But energy use in office buildings has stayed close to pre-pandemic levels.