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It’s hard to pin down a specific answer for any one person. WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk created this interactive way to figure out where you stand.

The program launched by the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations was inspired by an initiative born out of the 2008 financial crisis.

Marisol Rivera is a 53-year-old custodian who is on a mission to make people laugh while they receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Brandywine Realty Trust and its architects at Gensler are trying something new with a narrow opening between two planned towers.

Wolf’s fiscal plan is winning him plaudits from education advocates but few friends in the GOP-controlled legislature, who see a tax increase as a “non-starter.”

Pictures of flimsy-looking window fans for the School District of Philadelphia angered many. Experts, however, say they can be effective — if used properly.

Meanwhile, the Health Department is taking over the Convention Center mass vaccination clinic to offer second doses for former patients of Philly Fighting COVID.

Amazon said he'll be replaced in the fall by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud business. Bezos will then become the company's executive chairman.

Police Chief Robert Tracy said COVID reduced the ability of officers to interact with the community and to solve the high number of violent crimes in Wilmington last year.

Beginning the week of Feb. 22, Philadelphia will open and operate a new set of mass vaccine clinics — three first-dose vaccination sites and three second-dose sites.

Of the doses where the recipient’s race was recorded, only 4% have been administered to Black residents in a state with a 22 percent Black population.

Under the plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, Wolf will ask the Republican-controlled Legislature for what could approach $2 billion extra for public schools.

Democrats made the argument in a legal brief that makes their most detailed case yet for why former President Trump should be convicted and permanently barred from office.

Punxsutawney Phil has emerged from his burrow to forecast there will be six more weeks of winter.

Cleanup is underway after a winter storm continued to hit the Delaware Valley into Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know.