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Last night, ward leaders of the Philadelphia Republican Party met in a Northern Liberties church to nominate a new chairman. Members nomi ...

When Tim Smigelski moved to Germantown in 1995, he never thought that he would rebuild a neighborhood. Over the next decade, though, the ...

The Food and Drug Administration has just launched a new database with information about drug safety and efficacy for kids. Parent ...

Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspection workers are getting a makeover. Everyone from those cleaning and sealin ...

Five of America’s largest cable companies, including the Philadelphia-based giant, Comcast, have teamed up to create a national WiFi ne ...

You sometimes hear political hands say that a campaign’s most valuable commodity is the candidate’s time. So why would ...

The agency overseeing implementation of Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law has come up with a way to make it easier for residents to g ...

Monsignor William J. Lynn returns to the stand today for cross-examination in the landmark Philadelphia clergy sex-abuse case. Ly ...

Philadelphia City Council has approved a bill allowing drivers to appeal parking tickets on-line or through the mail.  Counci ...

Travelers on SEPTA’s subway lines are in for a visual treat. As part of the Art in Transit program, 10 different art projects can be fo ...

Last Thursday NewsWorks covered the protest at Sallie Mae in Newark.  That produced some conversation that we believe should continu ...

Elton John is in a Los Angeles hospital with a serious respiratory infection. The 65-year-old knighted pop-singer became ill while perfor ...

At the Barnes grand opening celebration this Saturday, the Mt. Airy-based Black Pea ...

When officials from Camden, New Jersey were forced to cut nearly a third of the city’s firefighters in January 2011, safety became ...

Orchestra leaders are optimistic for the organization’s financial future and have mapped out a plan that they hope will see them out of ...