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A Chestnut Hill minister and LGBTQ rights activist is making waves here in the city and across the country.

The pioneering video artist uses water and technology to explore consciousness and afterlife.

As the fireball raged over South Philadelphia last week, over one million residents in our region faced potentially life-threatening circumstances.

More than half of 2018 total will be paid to counties and municipalities to offset effects of gas drilling

Governor Wolf has now committed to signing all the components immediately, except one.

Despite orders from the Pennsylvania Health Department not to close yet, Hahnemann staff say hospital leadership is scaling back operations.

Philadelphians with the Sunrise Movement protested in Washington for three days, seeking a Democratic debate focused on climate issues.

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart called Philadelphia’s internal accounting practices a “red flag” that indicates vulnerabilities to corruption and waste.

A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of workers recently laid off from their jobs at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia.

Workers facing layoffs at Hahnemann and Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery will walk into radically different job markets.

A flurry of hotly-debated education proposals have been decided in this year’s Pennsylvania budget. Here are the latest updates on six major issues.

The United Negro College Fund recently announced that it has awarded Cheyney University and Lincoln University, two of the nation’s oldest historically black universities.

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charge

Below is a look at who stands to win and lose from the budget package, if it gets back on track.

Jennifer Lynn speaks with Mark Segal, publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, about his participation in the Stonewall Riots of 1969.