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From Dec. 1 to March 31, the city’s larger parks will all be off limits from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., during the annual effort to keep the deer population stable.

City Council passed a bill lowering the city’s parking tax. The move would roll back progress on meeting city goals and generating revenue at a time of financial crisis.

DREs use a nationally standardized method to spot the physical and physiological signs of drug impairment in a person, such as muscle tone, pupil size, and heart rate.

Organizers have opted to cancel or suspend even outdoor activities. Here’s why they did it, and what they’re suggesting you do instead.

The state's attorney general, Democrat Josh Shapiro, called the court's decision “another win for Democracy.”

Healthy foot traffic, with appropriate precautions, brought a much-needed boost to downtown stores along Kings Highway.

Experts say other issues loom large for the 2020 census as it heads into unchartered territory over deadlines, data quality and politics.

Although Latinos likely helped propel Biden to the presidency, it was a lesson in the limits of the party’s grip on an increasingly diverse segment of voters.

In many cases, the measures would reverse executive actions by President Donald Trump, whose administration took numerous steps to weaken protections for transgender people.

In some cases, elected officials are spending the last of a federal relief package passed in the spring as an end-of-year deadline approaches.

Black-owned businesses hope increased interest in the wake of anti-racist protests will continue to bring in customers this holiday season.

2020 has been a particularly deadly year on Philly roads. Holidays are a time when crash rates spike. Experts worry this year could be even worse.

The Brandywine Zoo’s new lemur exhibit is part of a species survival plan and is one step in the biggest capital improvement plan in the zoo’s 115-year history.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa go through the USPS system, asking for everything from toys to food.

The result could be potential dips in reported infections that offer the illusion that the spread of the virus is easing.