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Philadelphia is expected to approve expanded ethics rules that would extend expectations to same-sex partners of city employees. ...

A lot of famous people hail from New Jersey. Alan Alda, Dizzy Gillespie, Thomas Paine and Richard Stockton have all called the Garden Sta ...

This weekend library advocates in Philadelphia are kicking off a campaign called Leaders For Readers United.  The Friends of ...

Three area students are helping public defenders do their jobs in Pennsylvania. They’ve created a new resource–a quick guide ...

Property owners aren’t the only ones staring at Hurricane Irene bills. Those wires that fell in your neighborhood are costin ...

It’s not often we’ll tell you the best way check out one of our web stories is by closing your eyes. But in this case, you ...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter last week sent a letter to members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns encouraging them to support efforts t ...

The city Redevelopment Authority is looking over proposals from developers interested in remaking the empty Rivage site in East Falls. ...

Reading Public Library card-holders have a wider reading selection now that a locally grown country music star has donated tens of thousa ...

When it comes to water quality and conservation, Wesley Horner, senior advisor at the Brandywine conservancy, says trees are tops. “ ...

Here’s the gist of the 2011 Republican jobs plan, courtesy of Mitch McConnell in 2010: “The single most important thing we wa ...

Ground will break later this month on Delaware County’s new animal control facility once soil testing is complete. The shelt ...

Back in 1938, a group of men started what has become the oldest Barbershop music chapter east of the Mississippi. This group is still mak ...

State Rep. Greg Lavelle joins the state of play team this week.  Turns out Steve Martelli of Wilmington City Council is his cousin. ...

And agreement among Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses & Inspections, the Homeowners Association of Philadelphia and Tenant ...