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About 170 workers walked off the job Wednesday, the officer union’s first strike since 2019.

Paulo Garcia used to sleep in the baseball dugout and empty homes. He found help and housing a year later, motivated by his 2-year-old.

Eyewitnesses and Philly sports writers say that the infamous Santa snowball barrage was misrepresented in the national media.

A bull on the loose was spotted running on the New Jersey Transit train tracks in Newark on Thursday morning before it was safely captured.

Thousands of people in the Philadelphia area experience homelessness. Here are five ways to help.

New Jersey environmental groups are working together to plant more trees in urban areas.

A weekly radio program has served Philadelphia’s African diaspora for decades. As ‘Africatown’ comes into force, Radio XALAAT’s host looks back.

“[Safety is] paramount to us. But we're not here to get taken advantage of,” said union leadership following Wednesday’s strike vote.

The “Taylor Swift Challenge” urges Swifties across the country to donate $13 to their local animal shelter on the singer’s birthday, Dec. 13.

In this episode, we speak with Mecca Robinson, founder of Forget Me Knot Children & Youth Services, and her residents about the intersection of homelessness and foster care.

Gino Hagenkotter, 34, was an inmate at the Riverside Correctional Facility before he made his escape on Nov. 30.

The fliers said, 'Stand up White Man,' and included an address for a white nationalist website that promotes racist and anti-immigrant ideology.

Families, companies, and religious groups are putting their own spin on holiday festivities, from lighting menorah ice sculptures to gathering around real-life Festivus poles.

FDR Park in South Philadelphia has transformed into Tinseltown Holiday Spectacular!

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust filed for bankruptcy again in early December. Here’s what we know about its shopping mall portfolio, including the Fashion District.