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Operators of New Jersey’s privately run halfway houses are denying published reports of rampant violence and inmate escapes. ...

A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge has ruled that motorists who get parking tickets have the right to question their ticket-writer i ...

In this latest installment from Philly Youth Radio, Shayla Torres talks about leaving her safe place, her grandparents’ home, for t ...

New Jersey’s criminal justice system is taking a new approach to nonviolent drug offenders. Gov. Chris Christie signed a bil ...

Federal lawmakers passed a long-awaited new transportation bill earlier this month, giving the green light to some local construction pro ...

Theres no better summer pastime is than to spend those extra daylight hours nose-deep in a book. Or is there? Is the “summer readin ...

We spoke to Brian Hickey, community editor for the Germantown/West Oak Lane section, about “The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Fre ...

President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for parts of south Jersey in the wake of the June 30th storm. Obama order ...

About 50 mayors from around the country are gathered this week in Philadelphia for the U.S. Conference of Mayors summer meeting.  Ph ...

The New Jersey Labor Department says the unemployment rate jumped nearly a half-percentage point to 9.6 percent in June even though the s ...

The big ReStore Philadelphia Corridors sign posted along Germantown Avenue at West Rockland Street speaks to a commerce-department effort ...

Three local congressional races are included in a new top 75 list of competitions across the country. The rankings from the National Jou ...

Despite the Democrat-Republican dichotomy in the public debate over voter ID, there’s wider support for voter ID requirements on bo ...