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The city will issue fines to stores for single-use plastic bags starting next month. A two-week awareness campaign is underway.

Patrolman Brandon Cooper is now off the force and faces up to 26 years in prison if convicted on all charges, which include official misconduct and lewdness.

The project at 1201 Normandy Place aims to increase wealth in Black communities through its development.

A series of strikes hit a residential neighborhood in a western district of the capital and ignited a huge fire and a frantic rescue effort.

Students who were deprived of special education services while incarcerated are eligible to receive up to $8,000 per year in “compensatory education” benefits.

The aim: Tap into infrastructure funds and try to restore a line connecting Reading, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Norristown, and Philly.

They’re blaming the party in power: Biden and down-ballot Democrats. It’s a political strategy that can sting, as the 1970s energy crises showed.

A review of Philadelphia’s spending shows the city is following its budget blueprint and making ends meet with help from federal pandemic funds.

Concerned parents are taking matters into their own hands to make sure students at Temple University are safe.

A craft brewer in Ukraine switched from making beer to making Molotov cocktails. Brewers around the world pick up the slack.

DA Larry Krasner says hiring more prosecutors and more investigators is just the start to resolving a major criminal case backlog in the city.

It's uncertain whether the U.S. will accept Ukrainian refugees. But for some programs and charities in Central Pa., preparations are underway to welcome them with open arms.

More than 12.7 million children in the U.S. alone have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began.

Despite records and interviews that contradict her account, Jennifer Smith continues to contend the state’s drug oversight agency was not responsible for the confusion.

Previous discussions, held in person in Belarus, produced no lasting humanitarian routes or agreements to end the fighting.