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Flanked by veterans and Delaware National Guardsmen, Gov. Jack Markell, D-Del., announced a new ...

Philadelphia City Council today passed a resolution “condemning” a controversial state measure that requires voters to produc ...

The modern world is a tough one for writers: “it’s a dark, lonely, miserable, bleak path,” New York-based author Donald ...

Next week is Wildfire Prevention Week in Pennsylvania, and Gov. Tom Corbett is calling on residents to, you know, not start wildfires. ...

Business owners are complaining about a major hike to Philadelphia’s water rates.   Stuart Parmet, head of the Unified ...

SEPTA is warning riders of the Market Frankford and Broad Street lines to be smart about when they check their smartphones.  ...

Five city properties have been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and Fishtown advocates are celebrating their big wi ...

Philadelphia has a new campaign, brought to you by Philadelphians. Uwishunu, the blog of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketin ...

NewsWorks reader Judy is redoing a sidewalk garden, and she wrote in to ask for some recommendations for hardy plants that would have som ...

Let us now praise Rick Santorum. Seriously.Before we proceed to the next round of Republican contests, let us pause to recognize one of t ...

Upset by the recent decision to reassign two bike cops from the 7100 block of Germantown Avenue to other areas in Germantown, Mt. Airy ...

Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz has released yet another report detailing the city’s financial shortcomings. ...

The women of this country represent views across the political spectrum and are a major, albeit diverse, force in elections. Yet women an ...

No doubt it’ll be an uphill battle for Charles Vogt. He’s the new captain of Philadelphia’s 24th Police District, which ...

UPDATED AT1:45 p.m. It’s a sad day at my alma mater, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, where 19 peo ...