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Some of the Jersey Shore towns that were hard hit by Sandy are getting grant money to provide essential public services. Departmen ...

The timing could not have been worse. As the deadline to pass Pennsylvania’s 2014 budget quickly approached late last month, ...

On Thursday, a Philadelphia judge set an April trial date for an East Germantown man accused of killing an off-duty police officer last J ...

The city of Philadelphia wants to sell an underground parking garage at the foot of the Ben Franklin Parkway. Part of the plan is ...

Pennsylvania’s elected attorney general said Thursday that she will not defend the state law effectively banning same-sex marriage ...

Authorities say there has been a partial collapse of a building under construction at Temple University in Philadelphia. A spokesm ...

New Castle County police say they’re cracking down on crime in local parks. Officers patrolling county-operated parks made a ...

President Morsi made a mockery of Egypt’s infant democracy, using power to advance only the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood. &n ...

Philadelphia is launching a new effort to maximize help for the poor. It also calls for groups fighting poverty to go beyond their ...

Talk about a rude awakening. Just after 5 a.m. Thursday, a 36-year-old man woke up to find two men inside his second-floor apartme ...

Construction is scheduled to start later this year on the 60,000 square foot building that will seat 3,000 moviegoers and feature 14 scre ...

When Pennsylvania’s Republican-led legislature added more than $30 million in education aid to Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed bu ...

  It’s newsworthy, I suppose, that Rand Paul’s social media director is a neo-Confederate who loves John Wilkes B ...

Robert Drake is a novelist and literary editor from Philadelphia who fell in love with an Irish doctor, and moved to Dublin to start a ne ...

This is part of a series of essays about what it’s like to be you in Philadelphia. In an attempt to discuss issues of race and ...