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Three friends chronicle the gentrification of their changing hometown and call for a new Harlem Renaissance in the Wilma Theater’s newest production.

Philadelphia may begin testing a cash subsidy pilot in 2020, city policymakers and nonprofit leaders revealed Tuesday at a press conference. 

Neighborhood groups joined the FOP in supporting U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s effort to keep the nonprofit’s supervised injection site from opening.

The Sourland Conservancy has operated an amphibian crossing guard program for five years — with a focus on the spotted salamander.

Bridesburg is a working-class safe haven in Philly that rarely makes the police blotter. But it has a reputation of being exclusionary, and sometimes racist.

Suddenly, the Democratic Party’s presidential field, which featured more than a half dozen candidates a week ago, transformed into a two-man contest.

One in three Americans now have myopia. Kids who spend lots of time indoors are five times more at risk of developing it, research shows.

Sales of hand sanitizers in the U.S. were up 73% in the four weeks ending Feb. 22 compared to the same period a year ago

The decline is largest among students from families with less than $110,000 in annual income.

A senior judge will review whether the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office should step down from the latest appeal of former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Despite a legal blow in court this week, students of a N.J. choir college say they’re going to continue to fight its parent university’s plans to consolidate campuses.

A plan to open a supervised injection site in Philadelphia has ignited a debate about the role of public engagement in local decision-making.

Voters seem split on the question of a fracking ban.

The proposals include providing rent subsidies, guaranteed income and increasing the availability of adult education.

Pa.'s Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said getting test results from the state-run lab in Exton is reducing the turn-around time significantly.