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One key benchmark — the percentage of tests that come back positive — dropped below 10% Sunday. That figure was 42% on April 24, public health officials said.

An immigrant advocacy group is calling for fast action to "ensure that a massive testing program can be put into place quickly."

As jobless claims rise again, food banks expect the high need to persist for months.

The pandemic has fostered sudden, unexpected dislocation, making a typically easy question confusing for the newly displaced.

With kids’ classrooms replaced by the kitchen table or living room couch, many parents have been reluctantly drafted into a new role: teacher’s assistant.

The Senate's top Democrat said the VA needs to provide Congress more information about a recent bulk order for $208,000 worth of hydroxychloroquine.

Lancaster, Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin counties have all announced plans to move from the more restrictive “red” phase to “yellow.”

Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr. is calling on the city to issue a “formal apology” 35 years after the MOVE bombing that killed 11 people.

Widespread availability of testing is seen as critical to reopening the economy because it would allow public health officials to identify and contain a rebound of the virus.

With no guarantee they can collect unemployment if they refuse to go to work, immunocompromised workers fear a near-impossible choice: Risk losing their jobs, or their life.

It took more than two months for Arbery's pursuers — who told police they suspected he was a burglar — to be arrested and taken into custody.

Republican-controlled legislatures are increasingly trying to strip Democratic governors of their executive authority to close businesses and schools.

The White House's concern about infection is another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the coronavirus.

If most layoffs become permanent, the severe recession the economy has slid into would likely last longer and the recovery would be slower.

The zoo may be closed to humans during the pandemic, but that hasn't stopped animal moms and their newborns from celebrating this Mother's Day.