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Often seen as a sign of gentrification and neighborhood evolvement, coffee shops are taking on a new role by fighting poverty. ...

The two remaining Philadelphia City Council members in the controversial early retirement program DROP are facing court challenges to the ...

Mean-looking, apple-eating stink bugs are more than just smelly. As the invasive brown marmorated stink bugs creep in from parts of Asia, ...

The Census said populations are down in some New Jersey shore towns.  At one town said the numbers just don’t wash. Ava ...

Temple University’s Fox School of Businesses & Management has announced a few of the recipients for next month’s informat ...

A Chester County judge ruled last month that a slice of pizza counts as weapon. After all, it’s a solid, which is pretty much all t ...

Officials from Philadelphia University, Drexel University and the William Penn Charter School presented the future land use plans of thei ...

Pennsylvania’s Acting Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis says teacher salaries shouldn’t be based only on seniority. Tomalis ...

If you can’t find love, go on a reality dating show. If you can’t find love on a reality dating show, go on a second one. Uni ...

That colorful, slightly cozier seat you just grabbed on the El is not the work of SEPTA. But it will make your riding experience more enj ...

New Jersey’s Schools Development Authority has allotted $584 million to spend on 10 schools in the state’s poorest districts. ...

While students studying at Temple University’s Japan campus remain safe after last week’s earthquake, those on Main Campus ar ...

Does Barack Obama have bad luck on the energy front, or what? Last spring he endorsed an expansion of offshore oil drilling – and t ...

Update: Apparently, we’re a very design-forward city. ...

The 8th District City Council is crowded. And it should be an interesting one, since longtime seat-holder Donna Reed Miller isn’t s ...