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Pennsylvania Senate Republicans’ Marcellus Shale drilling impact fee has finally moved from a hypothetical to a reality. Wel ...

Some Germantown residents want an apartment building owner to take down posters of scantily clad women advertising the complex’s sp ...

Whenever I mention the Obama birth certificate business some reader makes the valid comment that this stuff should be ignored, not amplif ...

  If you didn’t get a chance to attend last night’s Eighth District Council debate you’re in luck. G-Town Radio ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to put limits on class-action lawsuits. The court ruled in a 5-4 vote to allow companies to force cons ...

The Philadelphia school district may have to cut 3,800 positions in order to close a $600 million deficit. Another proposal to make up fo ...

The Philadelphia Housing Authority has negotiated a contract with the union District Council 47 which transitions away from a traditional ...

If a fungus deep in a forest is named after you but no one ever sees it again, does it really count? Ernie Schuyler thinks so. In ...

Measles and ...

New Jersey is banning the manufacture, possession and sale of designer drugs known as “bath salts.” New Jersey Attorne ...

Philadelphia City Council held a hearing Thursday on cutting the city’s health-care costs.  Councilman Bill Green, who said ...

Loud applause greeted former Delaware resident Ken Burns, who made a stop in old New Castle Thursday, to rally for a national park here. ...

Update: Hillman has upheld the law that’s keeping Lewis off the ballot, saying the residency requirement doesnR ...

Anything can happen at a Philadelphia City Council meeting. Glen Waldeck made that abundantly clear yesterday. ...

Voters in 12 New Jersey towns have rejected referendums to raise their property taxes above the new state-imposed 2-percent cap. Brick To ...