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As a young girl in Taiwan, Lily Yeh studied Chinese landscape art. The monochrome ink paintings of trees, rocks, and water remain the tou ...

The scandal-ridden Philadelphia Traffic Court is on its way out and, reformers hope, ticket-fixing along with it. Pennsylvania Gov ...

Three-thousand-fifty-nine is a big, abstract number that is incredibly important to the future of Philadelphia public education. I ...

Two-hundred vacant properties the city cannot afford to rehab or maintain are on their way to the auction block on July 18, the Philadelp ...

Each of the seven people who died as a result of the Market Street collapse had a story. Ron Wagenhoffer’s began in Manayunk, in th ...

Democratic leaders in the New Jersey Senate expect an agreement soon on a new state budget.   Senate President Steve S ...

Philadelphia’s most produced playwright this season is eloquent and groundbreaking and his themes are universal. He’s ...

The 12th Amendment, which combines a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates onto one ticket, turned 209 this weeken ...

Since its earliest days, the United States of America has been a great experiment testing whether a free people are capable of governing ...

Young immigrants in New Jersey are pushing the state Legislature to take up a version of the federal Dream Act by the end of the month. ...

With the doomsday budget here, we have heard a lot about the sorry state of our schools and our gover ...

When Campbell Soup Co. began demolishing the historic Sears building on Camden’s Admiral Wilson Boulevard last week, the striking o ...

One week after he told NewsWorks that his year-old coffee shop in Germantown’s Chelten Plaza was closing for good, Robert ...

This list covers June 7-10, 2013. (Part I crime reports for June 11-13 were not made available by the 39th District this week). &n ...

June 1 7:30 p.m. Theft: 4500 block of Fleming St. Vehicle entered; nothing taken. 8 p.m. Residential Burgl ...