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Philadelphia’s indoor mask mandate was triggered by the city’s COVID risk measurement system. Public health experts weigh in on how well that system works.

The new military assistance includes artillery and helicopters, to bolster its defenses against an intensified Russian offensive in the country’s East.

The volunteer fire company was originally suspended for 30 days back in February.

Philadelphia officials are rolling out summer activities for kids, in anticipation of a surge in gun violence this summer. What will it take to make them safe?

The almost quarter-million-dollar trailer is designed to offer almost everything you can get at a traditional DMV location.

First observed in 2016, Black Maternal Health Week is recognized from April 11-17 to call “attention and action” to “improving Black maternal health,” according to the CDC.

Free lifeguard training is underway for 16 to 24-year-olds in Philly. Officials want to use the pools as safe havens this summer.

The number of COVID infections and hospitalizations is up substantially in the last few weeks, but the numbers are a mere fraction of mid-January’s peaks.

Only a few dozen addiction recovery homes in Pennsylvania have applied for a license despite the licensing program being designed to bring more oversight to the industry.

The mayor’s proposed budget reflects a troubling imbalance in the approach to public safety, writes Keisha Hudson of the Defender Association.

The Biden administration will extend for two weeks the nationwide mask requirement for public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases.

The city of Chester sees sale of the CWA as a ticket to financial recovery, but the authority and customers opposed to the sale will get another day in court.

The man accused in the shooting of 10 people on a Brooklyn subway has been arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense.

The briefings emphasize police responses to shootings, which attendees and experts believe contributes to harmful portrayals of gun violence in the media.

The tax levied on the sale of property went to 4% in 2017. That’s $12,000 on a $300,000 home. Proponents of the bill want to return the tax to 3%.