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By: Mary Fuchs New Jersey lawmakers are still trying to extend a deadline on the state’s voting machine requirements. But th ...

Wyeth employees across the Philadelphia area are waiting to see what their employer’s merger with pharmacutical giant Pfizer means ...

By: Peter Crimmins A youth intervention program in Philadelphia is expanding its outreach. The Safe Place program encourages troub ...

News that New Jersey is closing a prison just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge has Camden leaders excited about redeveloping a prime piec ...

WHYY’s Dave Heller spoke with Mayor Michael Nutter about the latest economic data for Philadelphia, the Board of Revision of Taxes ...

Schools across Philadelphia are chronically underfunded when it comes to the arts. Several have no art educators at all – and those ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Pennsylvania native John Updike died today of lung cancer. Updike, who grew up near Reading, is known h ...

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is expected to give his budget address next week. With a projected deficit of more than $2 billion dolla ...

Today, members of Casino-Free Philadelphia declared the city’s independence from casinos. The activists have been protesting the Su ...