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In his latest budget address, Mayor Jim Kenney is asking for $10.5 million for the city’s street sweeping programs. That’s roughly five times last year’s budget.

Pennsylvania’s third-largest school district made an overnight decision to close five schools after a COVID-19 scare. It could be a taste of what’s to come.

The public university will pay $290K to women who said it failed to protect them from sexual violence and thoroughly investigate their claims.

Philadelphia officials provided an update on the city’s coronavirus preparations at 2 p.m. at City Hall. There are no confirmed ...

SEPTA set to announce a new fare structure, as transit advocates pressure the agency to make transfers free.

Budget hearings concluded this week in Harrisburg and showed how far apart Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled General Assembly are on agreeing to a spending plan.

The bill provides federal public health agencies with money for vaccines, tests and potential treatments and helps state, local governments prepare and respond to the threat.

Two U.S. Coast Guard stations that patrol waterways in and around New Jersey are set to close by 2021, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security announcement. 

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday morning the state's first two cases of coronavirus, one in Delaware County and one in Wayne County.

Coronavirus exposure closes five schools in the Central Bucks School District out of an “abundance of caution,” no cases in Pa. confirmed yet.

A street art campaign asked 10 women artists to depict 20 inspiring Philadelphia women.

The legal battle over Philadelphia’s long-dormant lost gun reporting ordinance begins to take shape in court.

Forget farm-to-table, a new pilot program is taking oyster shells from table to bay. Recycled shells will become living shorelines and new oyster habitat.

At an event hosted Thursday night by Fox News, Trump bounced between defending his administration’s record and trolling the Democratic candidates for president.

In 2015, Philly police Sergeant Robert Wilson III attempted to thwart an armed robbery. Five years after his death, his friends and family honor his legacy.