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There’s a storm a-brewin’ in Old City, where McFadden’s Restuarant & Saloon has come under fire as being racist. A ...

WHYY holds civic dialogues around the region, working with its partner, the Penn Project for Civic Engagement. These structured, m ...

The city of Wilmington continues to work on ways to an over all goal of reducing the city’s carbon footprint.  Mayor James Bak ...

Kensington, North Philly . . . call it what you want, but a loft on the 1600-block of N. Howard Street has caught the attention of the Ne ...

Delaware officials believe that a bald eagle found dead last month in Sussex County was poisoned with pesticide meant to kill off animals ...

Gambling on slot machines in Pennsylvania provided almost a quarter billion dollars in subsidies to the horse racing industry in 2009, bu ...

SEPTA has begun talks with AEMCO in an effort to settles a lawsuit surrounding the recronstruction of the Market-Frankford El. The author ...

Yesterday, WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reported on the intricacies involved with getting rid of unwanted medicines in Philadelphia, and th ...

It’s time for State of Play this week, and back with us are Stephanie Hansen from the law firm of Young, Conaway, Stargatt, and Tay ...

A group of West Mt. Airy residents have formed a committee to take a stand against the high number of traffic accidents in the area. The ...

Over on Junto, we’re talking about kids’ health. Who’s responsible: the parents, the government or the food industry? ...

The School District of Philadelphia is promoting its ...

Will graphic images on tobacco products encourage smokers to quit and deter others from taking up the habit? The FDA thinks so. Amy Pierc ...

We’ve got a Beer Week. Why not a Tech Week? ...

Tune in now to WHYY FM to hear more about NewsWorks. Radio Times’ Marty Moss-Coane is talking w ...