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After announcing the Volunteer Impact Challenge late last month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has been preaching the value of servic ...

Chester County’s Common Pleas Board of Judges will interview seven county commissioner applicants Wednesday after weeding out the q ...

A potential opponent for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in the Democratic Primary has bowed out of the race before it even started.&nb ...

New Jersey’s Senate Transportation Committee has advanced a bill that would lower the fines for drivers caught driving without thei ...

New Jersey lawmakers this morning announced plans for a new tunnel project under the Hudson River that could eventually accommodate high ...

Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams announced this morning he won’t be running in the 2012 Philadelphia mayoral election. He hasn’t e ...

More than 3,000 people risked hypothermia over the weekend for the annual Polar Bear Plunge. As Mark Eichmann reports for WHYY, 3,094 peo ...

Did you really think we’d be keeping the Street family out of Philadelphia politics? Milton Street is running for mayor. He’s ...

If the word “ukulele” conjures visions of slow, sleepy Hawaiian music, that’s just where virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro wants you at the ...

Delaware’s unemployment office is trying to spread the word that in addition to helping the unemployed, it can also help connect co ...

NewsWorks reader/contributor Bob Shipman sends us these photos (below) of some serious potholes in Northern Liberties. Bob snapped these ...

We’re already salivating over the next restaurant weeks. Stephen Starr’s Starr Restaurant Organization has plans to open at l ...

The Division of Public Health has upgraded Delaware’s influenza status to widespread.  The most cases are in Kent County. ...

Frick, freak, frack, flip…anything but the actual four-letter “f word” will do. The words have noticeably replaced the ...

I’ll go way out on a limb and predict that Donald Rumsfeld’s newly released memoir, Known and Unknown, will not outs ...