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When Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter unveiled the city’s new crime-fighting plan last month, he promised more money for the Witne ...

A federal judge’s decision not to toss out the 2001 Pennsylvania House and Senate district lines has Republican lawmakers weighing ...

Gov. Chris Christie has named a former FBI counterterrorism expert to lead the state Department of Homeland Security and Preparednes ...

The New Jersey Senate Labor committee has voted to prohibit employers from using credit reports as the basis for turning down job applica ...

The William Penn Foundation today announced ...

The mother of a man killed as he sat in a stolen car last year has filed suit against six Philadelphia police officers involved in his d ...

I can hardly count the number of emails I’ve gotten over the past 36 hours from reporters at the Inquirer and Daily News expressing ...

When you’re making a best-of cities list that’s 25 destinations long, it’s no surprise Philadelphia is on there. There ...

WHYY’s Peter Crimmins dropped by a speed-dating event this week at the main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. With 1 ...

The National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs has moved its headquarters to Philadelphia. The organization ...

Nearly 30 spectators gathered at the intersection of Ridge and Leverington avenues Thursday afternoon after a cab crashed through the bri ...

Admit it, you wouldn’t believe your neighbors either if they told you there was a purple squirrel in their yard. We were skeptical ...

Nine percent of children in Southeastern Pennsylvania have not seen a dentist in the last year, according to a survey of 13,000 household ...

A White House official told the Associated Press that New Jersey and nine other states will get No Child Left Behind waivers under Presid ...

Officials have struck a deal to keep gyms and theaters in Philadelphia’s public schools open on afternoons and weekends. A money-sa ...