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A Philadelphia poet has won a prize worth about $47,000 for a collection of poetry inspired by her husband’s service in Iraq. ...

New Jersey’s got 202 structurally unsound bridges, according to a study by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. The Route 52 brid ...

What’s the magic word for getting the City of Philadelphia to get things done? If it’s not please — or a series of obsc ...

Christmas Village? Holiday Village? As a guy who was raised Christian in South Texas and married into a Jewish family, and I don’t ...

State Rep. Mike McGeehan today has called for further investigation into the actions of School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Ar ...

Baked good usually don’t come to mind when you think of Philadelphia’s historic Eastern State Penitentiary. But leave it to E ...

Thursday marked the end of an era in Germantown. A bankruptcy judge orde ...

NewsWorks reader and Feed frequenter Bob Shipman was on hand today as Mayor Nutter welcomed the Philadelphia Belle, the Delaware waterfro ...

Tuesday’s murder of a teenager in Wilmington put the city’s homicide rate on par with its most violent of 2008. The murder a ...

On Wednesday, the Manayunk Neighborhood Council exerted its sway over both a versed corporate lawyer and a comparatively unfledged small- ...

The Philadelphia region has had a mixed couple of months economically, according to a snapshot report released Wednesday by the Federal R ...

Peace Advocacy Network activists will gather in Old City Philadelphia Sunday to protest horse-led carriages. The group takes issues with ...

Authorities say a woman has been shot and killed in a double shooting in Wilmington.   Her death is the 27th homicide in t ...

  Members of Philadelphia City Council taking advantage of an early-retirement incentive might get a bonus if they are re-elected ...

Delaware State University has fired head Football Coach Al Lavan after a 3-and-8 season. DSU Athletics Director Derek Carter said ...