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Friday marked the fifth day of a hunger strike by Philadelphia parents and school staff in protest of a school funding plan that will lea ...

Bologna sandwiches and leftover spaghetti; those are some of the meals U.S. Rep. John Carney has been eating this week while he participa ...

Attention all Philadelphians down the Shore and all Shore people down there, too: If you’ve never enjoyed the silly pleasures of ...

If radio is “theater of the mind,” somebody needs to compose the soundtrack. Murmuration is a classical improvisation ...

A much-hyped new film, World War Z, opens today. It’s set in Philadelphia. But it wasn’t made here. Just imag ...

A federal requirement that most businesses offer employees no-cost contraceptive coverage as part of their health plans has been in effec ...

On Thursday, June 27, 7 p.m., the 70-piece Merion Concert Band will perform in Gorgas Park playing a mix of 4th of July and Sousa pieces ...

On Wednesday, June 26, 7:30 p.m., the John Byrne Band playing rousing Celtic music will appear in a free concert at Pastorius Park in Che ...

In recent weeks, crimes stats have crept upward in West Mt. Airy and sections of Germantown, but local police say they are confident that ...

In 2011, Delaware became the latest state to legalize medical marijuana through a prescription. Since then, the program has been halted w ...

Germantown High is one of 23 schools closing due to the Philadelphia School District’s budget cuts this year. A number of underclas ...

In his weekly message, Delaware Governor Jack Markell highlights the Veterans Services Directory, an online searchable database launched ...

Philadelphia City Council may be on a weekly session recess for the summer, but members and staffers want you to know they are w ...

With strong bipartisan support, the Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a measure that would ask voters to divert more than $200 mil ...

West Oak Lane’s first ever Night Market drew huge crowds on Ogontz Avenue Thursday night as the commercial corridor transformed int ...