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A Berks County detention center for immigrant families has reopened, this time detaining only adult women, according to immigration attorneys.

Former Wilmington City Councilman Bud Freel won the Democratic Party’s nomination to run in next month’s special election to replace State Rep. Gerald Brady.

At the historic Smith Memorial Playground in East Fairmount Park, young people can get to know their local and homegrown heroes with the “Leaders and Legends of Philadelphia”

Factions of the township government were at odds over an allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds to keep things running and pay township workers.

High school students in the School District of Philadelphia will soon have access to Philadelphia’s rich history of local African American heroes and trailblazers.

Not satisfied with urging fellow musicians to leave Spotify, Neil Young wants the company's employees to jump ship, too.

The Democratic and Republican redistricting plans had formerly been kept confidential until the Apportionment Commission made its final decision.

Ten people, including the driver, were aboard the Route 551 bus when the vehicle left the roadway and struck the tree, authorities said.

Councilmember Cindy Bass wants to put a six-month moratorium on most building demolitions in her district. The move may be unprecedented.

Baltimore uses a local preservation tax credit to stabilize neighborhoods. Could the approach help Philadelphia?

Philadelphia’s decarbonization goals run right up against PGW, the gas utility it owns. Some say the solution lies below the city.

Lawyers for Xiaoxing Xi and his wife say in a brief filed Monday with a Philadelphia-based appeals court that a judge erred last year when he dismissed most of the claims.

The position is a drastic change from its stance in the Trump administration, when prosecutors fought vigorously against a plan to open a safe consumption site in Philadelphia

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has released artist renderings of the plans for what is coming to FDR Park in June.

The congressional map plan drawn by Republican state lawmakers was already vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Here’s what happens next.