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Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio has joined in the debate about the state’s gun laws. Florio, who spearheaded the enactment ...

Neighbors got a look at preliminary conceptual designs for the latest addition to outdoor artwork in Mt. Airy. About 25 local resi ...

Philadelphia’s city controller says the cost of health care is rising more quickly in Philadelphia than in the nation overall.&nbsp ...

State police say a Wilmington man threatened Delaware Park employees and demanded security remove a relative from the casino, Sunday nigh ...

As Congress debates action on the sequester, a package consisting of billions of dollars in spending cuts that is set to kick in March 1, ...

Put your best face forward — but leave off the make-up: A social media campaign is challenging women to go “bare-faced” for ...

After 17 years, a popular Philadelphia theater festival has its own home. FringeArts, formerly the Philadelphia Live Arts Fes ...

Retiring Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Philadelphia to host a major conference in 2015. It could bring hundreds of thousands of vis ...

In the end, they decided to move out. As part of a settlement deal reached Jan. 3, a group of residents at a soon-to-be-renovated ...

A federal judge in Philadelphia won’t let a reputed mob boss out of prison to await retrial in a racketeering case. The judg ...

There may be no better place in the Delaware Valley to view the effects of the sequester than from Independence Mall. Sandwiched b ...

John Watson is a long time Wilmington radio talkshow host.  He now calls NewsWorks as a place to express opinions and conversation. ...

WHYY/NewsWorks and the Daily News recently found that some Philadelphia nonprofits were getting tax breaks that they may not have deserve ...

It took a 1,700-mile move to Philadelphia for Texas native Kevin Grauke to write about his past. On Tuesday, Grauke will read from ...

While President Lincoln gets much of the credit for fighting slavery, author Jefferson Morley’s book describes the grass roots figh ...