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Anglers help stock White Clay Creek with trout, celebrate improvements to water quality
Pennsylvania has awarded more than $17 million in grants to 89 state projects to improve water quality and support trout.
6 hours ago
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court strikes down ban on Medicaid for abortion
A majority of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found that the law violates the state’s Equal Rights Amendment.
9 hours ago
Listen 0:47School District of Philadelphia revises facility plan again, sparing one more school from closure
The update raises the plan’s price tag by $200,000 and spares North Philadelphia’s Ludlow Elementary School from recommended closure.
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Listen 0:58Pa. is considering $900K to fund meals tailored to people’s chronic diseases and medical needs
Medically tailored meals are informed by dietitians who evaluate recipes and match them to nutrition needs for diabetes, cancer and other diseases.
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Listen 2:08‘Photo enforced’: Speed cameras are proliferating along Delaware highways, neighborhood streets
DelDOT is using the cameras along I-95 work zones, and now local governments have begun putting them in neighborhoods to slow down traffic.
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Listen 1:59Doylestown free concert series to showcase a ‘diverse palette of voices’ throughout May
The series, known as Concert at the Commons, is scheduled every Thursday in May at Broad Commons Park in Doylestown.
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Listen 1:04A look at the ‘Wild West’ of synthetic kratom, which doctors are calling ‘more potent than fentanyl’
Since 2015, kratom poisonings have surged by 1,200%, according to a recent report.
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Listen 1:05New Jersey election 2026: Meet the Democrats looking to flip a longtime GOP seat in Congress
Primary voters in Monmouth and Ocean counties will choose between Democrats John Blake and Rachel Peace. The winner will face longtime U.S. House Rep. Chris Smith in November.
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Philadelphians who care for vacant side yards form group to push for easier land-acquisition process
The coalition wants the Land Bank to give neighbors preferential rights to apply for vacant side yards and expand eligibility.
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What Philly voters need to know about the 2 ballot questions in the May 19 primary
All voters, regardless of party, will decide whether to create a city-run retirement savings program and to make permanent an office that monitors youth services.
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Listen 1:03Should governments regulate unhealthy food like tobacco? Some Penn researchers say yes
This comes as more researchers, and even some lawyers and public officials, are comparing the harmful effects of ultra-processed food and tobacco.
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Listen 2:57New Jersey election 2026: These 4 Republicans hope to unseat U.S. Sen. Cory Booker
Booker is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Republicans Alex Zdan, Richard Tabor, Robert Lebovics and Justin Murphy are vying for their party’s nomination.
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Listen 0:54The detention centers would overwhelm sewage facilities and exceed available drinking water supply, environmental advocates say.
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Listen 0:50Philadelphians rewrite the Declarations of Independence in Mural Arts printmaking project
More than 1,000 people created personal Declarations of Independence, now on view at the Free Library in a major semiquincentennial civic art project.
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Listen 1:19Quakertown Borough requested the review in March. An investigation by the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office is ongoing.
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