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The plan would allow an inmate who is 65 or older and who has completed at least a third of his or her sentence for a less serious crime to apply for geriatric parole.

The state is once again going after ExxonMobil to clean up and pay to restore once pristine natural areas, in this case a 12-acre site in Gloucester County.

A once-obscure city office that critics link to Philadelphia’s pay-to-play political culture will soon be taken over by the Philadelphia Land Bank.

The players are seeking equal pay and treatment, in addition to damages including back pay. The complaint was filed on International Women's Day.

Nearly 370 districts will be seeing some increase in aid; another 200 will lose out.

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the Trump Organization broke a promise to pay his legal bills and owes at least $1.9 million.

The bill would allow survivors to file civil lawsuits against their sexual abusers for conduct that took place years or even decades earlier.

Philadelphia is the first major city to ban cashless stores. But anti-poverty advocates and low-income residents never asked for it.

Montgomery County Republicans will decide in the party primary whether to back county Commissioner Joe Gale, who beat party leaders four years ago.

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s annual budget address proved to be a quiet affair, with little in the way of cheering, jeering, or laughter.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

Philadelphia is currently the only large municipality without a comprehensive street sweeping plan.

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.