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In vacant lots, urban farmers in the Garden State turn out fresh and healthy food options for their neighborhoods.

It is the first business to open in the complex, which will also include an Everest Urgent Care Facility, a barbecue restaurant, and a Santander Bank branch.

Comcast announced the July 2022 recipients of their RISE fund pandemic relief grants. 100 Philly-area businesses were awarded $10,000.

Some 40 years before Klondike decided to discontinue it, the childhood favorite frozen treat was likely invented in Philly.

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools.

Stream a movie, download an audiobook, borrow an instrument, and more. Make sure to check the hours before you try to visit a branch.

Area first responders and the military will join forces this week to run a disaster preparedness exercise in South Philadelphia.

City officials expect the additional money to be used up quickly, and help roughly 2,600 households.

A Philly teen suggests taking away her freedom under the new curfew law is not going to be the path to a safer city.

Russian missiles have struck Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there.

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate a fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park that exploded in size into one of California's largest wildfires of the year.

Marguerite Walz was part of a racist 1920s movement worried jazz would erode “decency” and encourage race-mixing and promiscuity.

The Postal Service is looking for nearly 200 assistant mail carriers, the starting point for a career at the agency. Pay starts at almost $19 an hour.

Across from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, mothers of those lost to gun violence surround Saunders Park in a photo essay by photographer Kathy Shorr for Mural Arts.

When the city declares a heat health emergency, new utility shut-offs are banned. But service is not automatically restored for accounts already shut off.