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In one Northeast neighborhood, residents are worried about the techniques being used to handle the area’s rodent problem. Rats ...

The 7,000 square-foot, 21-room, green and mauve Victorian style mansion situated on Bay Shore Drive in Ocean City, N.J., has a new owner. ...

The nation’s oldest outdoor market will come alive today when the Italian Market Festival returns for its finale.   The ...

Philadelphia may have its Manayunk wall as a biking focal point in June.  It would be hard, though, to beat the 3 days of bikin ...

An insurance broker testified to defrauding the Philadelphia Housing Authority out of $2.3 million. And now, he’s naming names. ...

A new study shows it’s a bigger health threat to live downwind from the Delaware City Refinery. A two year report on the air qua ...

A Philadelphia City Councilman wants to raise the price of parking tickets to fund the city’s department of parks and recreation. & ...

Lacrosse is said to be North America’s oldest indigenous sport. The NCAA’s men’s lacrosse quarterfinal playoffs take th ...

Training a class of state police troopers may seem like a straightforward way to fill the ranks. This year, however, there are a l ...

  This year’s Hidden Gardens Tour featured nine gardens in Germantown, Mt. Airy, and Chestnut Hill. The self-guided ...

Here’s a look at what’s to come on NewsWorks this week: A trio of brothers at Germantown Friends School wants the gove ...

One day, when this NewsWorks reporter was in the third grade, the boys, in a well-coordinated mass attack, put earthworms in the desk of ...

If there’s one thing worth knowing about Chestnut Hill, Steve Berg says it’s that the area is a “hotbed of artists teem ...

Pittsburgh-based Mylan Pharmaceuticals will be the first company to produce a generic version of a popular blood thinner. Accordin ...

Once a quiet home to a great art collection in Lower Merion, the Barnes Foundation loudly tooted its own horn at its inauguration gala Fr ...