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On a cold, damp Wednesday, Happy Hollow Recreation Center in Germantown is quiet, and looks closed.  Inside, Brenda Conway is bustli ...

Shane Candies at Market and Second streets opened in 1911, and closed almost two years ago. Now it ha ...

Inside a tiny room at the Roxborough Leverington Presbyterian Church, a dozen singers, a conductor, and a piano accompanist squeeze into ...

This Friday, Manayunk’s Canal View Park will transform into a holiday spectacle of sorts for the neighborhood’s official tree ...

A new production of the ballet The Nutcracker will use Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill for its backdrop. This version being ...

The City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics has announced that the city’s first lobbying registration law finally will take effect in ...

Philadelphia police soon may be enforcing a city ordinance that closes a regulatory loophole allowing more people to carry concealed weap ...

The family of a refugee who died after a botched abortion at a Philadelphia clinic have sued the city over her death. The lawsuit ...

Members of Occupy Philadelphia are appealing the restrictions the city wants to impose if the group moves to a new location. Gwen ...

With the arrival of the holiday season, it’s buyer beware for toy shoppers. And, once again, a Philadelphia-based research gro ...

New Jersey environmentalists are not happy with the state’s latest appointment to the Oyster Creek safety advisory panel. That gro ...

Holiday shopping means being extra careful for thieves both cyber and physical.   Philadelphia District Attorney Seth William ...

Philadelphia’s outdoor Christmas Village is back, but this year it’s in a new location.   The Christmas Village i ...

Opponents of privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor system say the move would benefit large corporations and wholesalers, and terminate ...

Congratulations on making it through the Thanksgiving food fest and the Black Friday shopping. Now just in time for Small Business ...