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Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite and other school officials have agreed to meet with an air quality specialist after he criticized the district’s new purifiers.

A lack of security at their apartment complexes makes life dangerous for many Camden seniors. Buildings’ operators refuse to hire guards.

The city of Philadelphia says gun buybacks have removed dangerous firearms from the city streets.

The sites may be at risk for leaching a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS into drinking water supplies.

A southeast Pennsylvania-based urban rescue team returns after working in Surfside collapse.

Environmental groups in Philadelphia picketed outside a TD Bank branch to call on the finance giant to end investments in the controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline project.

In 2018, McIver was one of the first nine members Mayor Jim Kenney appointed to the Philadelphia Board of Education.

A jury still found two Pa. constables guilty on a lesser charge: failing to disclose wages they made while working on behalf of Energy Transfer.

The Department of Labor and Industry announced it had contracted with identity verification service ID.me to screen new applicants.

Hite said the district is “continuing to accept forms from families.” Previously, the deadline to submit the paperwork was Thursday.

At least 300 people have been murdered in Philadelphia so far this year, including nearly 30 children under the age of 18.

The City of Philadelphia recorded its 300th homicide of the year early Friday morning.

The winning concepts focused on permanent pedestrian improvements for the infamously auto-centric parkway. A panel will eventually select a single plan.

The market, a place for local artists and vendors to display and sell their work, opened on July 5 and will be open on Mondays from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

UPenn researchers looked at 15,550 patients admitted to Pa. trauma centers from March 21 to July 31, 2020; 8,170 had been tested for the virus.