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Mayor Michael Nutter wants Philadelphia to be the greenest city in America, but a national nonprofit gave its parks a mediocre grade in a ...

Mental illness carries a lot of stigma — that’s well known to researchers and to people who struggle with these disorders. Pe ...

The marijuana in those pot brownies isn’t the only thing that can potentially make consumers sick. Regulators are now taking a clos ...

Philadelphia has received a $5 million federal grant to support reintegration and employment services for ex-offenders. The region ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it is abandoning a plan to temporarily house hundreds of Central American children ...

A new study indicates that more teens are “sexting” ...

French street performers marched among the skateboarders at Paine’s Park Friday to promote the Kimmel Center’s Solstice in th ...

A Norristown, Pennsylvania, man who went on a 19-day hunger strike earlier this year to protest his prolonged immigration detention has b ...

Tougher penalties may be on the way for falsely implicating someone in criminal activity in New Jersey. The Senate’s Law and ...

Though I was born and raised in New Jersey, I didn’t truly love my home state until I became a reporter. Growing up in the ‘burbs, it ...

If you see any caped crusaders milling around the Philadelphia this weekend, it’s not a bird, it’s not a plane, it’s th ...

A published report says Apple is likely to launch a computerized wristwatch this fall that includes more than 10 sensors to take health m ...

Online voters have chosen dozens of works of art to appear on billboards and signs in cities across the U.S. later this summer. Th ...

Pennsylvania’s three biggest oil and gas associations, which represent multinational giants, are warning state lawmakers that raisi ...

The Obama administration is opening new detention facilities to house immigrant families caught crossing the border together illegally. T ...