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Philadelphia City Council now has the results from its own study of who would be helped and hurt by the city-wide property tax re-assessm ...

Philadelphia City Council will not be overriding Mayor Nutter’s veto on “paid sick time.”    Coun ...

First Pencader Charter High School lost its charter; now, less than two months later, Pencader parents received more bad news. In ...

Investigators say a man was saved by his belt buckle when he was hit by a stray bullet during a shootout outside a Philadelphia grocery s ...

Willie Reed and Ralph Jarvis were arrested on Sunday fora  March 17 copper pipe burglary that took place in the “E” buil ...

  Modest gun reform is finally on the table today in the U.S. Senate, and even though its ultimate fate is uncertain, this mu ...

A new analysis of crash data shows pedestrian deaths in Delaware rose last year from 2011. Many deaths occurred either on U.S. 40 ...

The mural proposed for the West Mt. Pleasant Avenue train trestle in West Mt. Airy took another step towards reality on Tuesday night whe ...

Seven students from Julia R. Masterman Middle School in Fairmount competed in the SuperNationals in Nashville, Tenn., the Super Bowl of c ...

To the many readers and friends of NewsWorks who have asked about the return of Andorra’s Lucky Star restaurant, one of se ...

Volunteers all over the city will put their shovels, rakes and paintbrushes to good use this Saturday for the Philadelphia Streets Depart ...

A handful of kids with Type 1 diabetes were invited to East Falls Glassworks on Sunday to create glass sculptures that represented their ...

There is a new green concept in town. At a recent First Friday event, Tiny Terra Ferma, a landscape design and gardening shop, made its d ...

Some people dream of retiring and taking up art. Mel Leipzig – who has been p ...

When Kevin Jacobs and Michael Stewart of Somers Point signed up for the April Fools H ...