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Instead of a temporary shelter only opened on super cold nights, Friendship House plans to move those experiencing homelessness into a former hotel all winter long.

The Kenney administration hopes a new committee can help center Black and brown voices in the city’s next comprehensive planning process.

Black people have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Many of them are the most distrustful of a vaccine.

Nonprofits say thousands have been food insecure for years in Pa.’s richest county. The pandemic has transformed an after-school writing program into a food bank.

At least four taverns in the Philly suburbs had customers enjoying drinks inside on Sunday, a reporter found, in violation of Gov. Wolf’s new COVID mitigation measures.

As U.S. Attorney William McSwain's tenure likely nears its end with Biden set to take office next month, there’s no sign that any sweeping church indictment is afoot.

Hurts ran for 106 yards and threw for 167 and one touchdown, Miles Sanders had 115 yards rushing and a pair of scores and Philadelphia beat the New Orleans Saints 24-21.

Trump made the announcement hours after his administration confirmed that senior U.S. officials, including White House aides who work in close proximity to Trump and Pence.

The new — and higher — Portal North bridge is a key component of the broader Gateway Project, which includes modernizing rail infrastructure between Newark and Penn Station.

Delaware could receive more than 8,700 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine and begin distribution to residents “within the next few days,” per health officials.

Several other people were wounded, one critically, in other shootings around the city, police said.

New Jersey, like the rest of the country, has seen a resurgence of the virus, with daily caseloads climbing above their highest points in the spring.

Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will kickstart the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million people.

The gatherings of mostly unmasked Trump loyalists were intended as a show of force just two days before the Electoral College meets to formally elect Biden as president.

The shelter hopes that, as dogs enjoy the holidays in the comfort of foster homes, it can gain insights that will help the animals find forever families.