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These new numbers from the Urban Institute offer the first reality check on the rhetoric that has dominated the Democratic debate over health care reform.

Business owners in Fishtown and South Philadelphia could soon be paying an assessment for new services.

SEPTA’s policy on loud music is that it is officially prohibited on transit. But SEPTA Police doesn’t actively enforce against the violation.

Philadelphia and South Jersey host festivals with a witchy bent, musicians Sabrina Claudio and Toto are in town, and pumpkins glow in Fairmount Park.

“There There” by Tommy Orange, a Native American novel set in contemporary Oakland, California is The Free Library’s next pick for the One Book One Philadelphia.

An ICE spokesman confirmed their deportation to the United Kingdom in a statement Wednesday evening.

The bill is not as sweeping as other cities’ proposed vaping bans, but Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley says that’s intentional.

A video, the second this month, emerged showing white Chester Township police officers arresting a black man for loitering in front of his own property.

The vast majority of Pa. voters will fill out ballots by hand Nov. 5. In the past, direct-recording electronic machines dominated.

The lawsuit claims that N.J. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has endangered the public safety of the county by restricting its ability to communicate with law enforcement.

The Chemical Safety Board says if recommendations made after a California refinery explosion had been followed, the South Philly site might not have burned.

WHYY management agrees to October date for union election, disputes which employees should be represented by SAG-AFTRA

College health experts called the move short-sighted and risky at a time of growing mental health needs among students.

A Delaware senator wants to repeal legislation passed in early 2018 that aimed to address disparities in the state’s cash bail system.

The acting Department of State secretary says the legacy system doesn’t make it easy for applicants to tell how long the process will take.