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The government’s report showed that last month’s job growth helped shrink the unemployment rate to 3.6%. That’s the lowest rate since the pandemic erupted two years ago.

Watlington will take over for William Hite at the end of the academic year.

The governor’s office announced Murphy’s positive test Thursday afternoon and said he was asymptomatic.

As enacted, the ordinance bans kratom and Delta-8 sales within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, or daycare center, preventing a new shop from opening.

FEMA’s “Risk Rating 2.0” more accurately reflects flood risk and the cost to rebuild after a flood. This means some owners will no longer overpay.

The Wardrobe is a Philly thrift store that provides communities in need with free clothing. They work with returning citizens, immigrants, and more.

After a six-month “awareness, education, and warning” period, the plastic bag ban now comes with financial penalties.

Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday when the gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit.

The hour-long chat marked the end of Women’s History Month.

A rally to support school desegregation in New Jersey is held as a judge is weighing whether the state is responsible for not doing enough to break up segregation.

Murphy is currently asymptomatic and feeling well, and will cancel in-person events and isolate for the next five days.

The mayor’s $5.6 billion spending plan looks like it will have fewer changes than usual this year in part because there are no tax increases proposed.

It is a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

The array of issues is tied to the coronavirus public health emergency first declared more than two years ago and periodically renewed since then.

Despite Republican calls for higher gas production, IFO figures show it actually increased by 6.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with a year earlier.