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The group has a mission: to convince municipalities to construct at least five new adaptive and inclusive skateparks across the county.

Philadelphia is just one of two selected cities to receive refugees from Afghanistan.

Latino-owned businesses have tended to receive less support from the government and have had a harder time recovering from pandemic-related losses.

Staffing issues at the shore are getting worse as students go back to school and the few foreign students brought in for the summer on temporary visas return home.

Family members of those who died from overdoses lowered state, county and U.S. flags outside New Castle County government headquarters Friday.

Philadelphia health officials are searching for translators to help usher displaced Afghans into the U.S. — specifically people who speak Dari or Pashto.

Both the driver and the passenger of a car were killed. The driver was the father of three children.

Cathryn Miller-Wilson, executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania, demands the U.S. government waive humanitarian parole fees for Afghan refugees.

"Philadelphia stands in solidarity with Afghan refugees," said Mayor Jim Kenney.

Properly honoring South Philadelphia’s own Marian Anderson, the first Black singer to perform at the White House in 1936, will require close to $1.4 million.

The magnitude 7.2 earthquake killed more than 2,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Haiti's southern peninsula. Recovery efforts have been slow.

Western nations had warned of a possible attack on Kabul’s airport in the waning days of the massive evacuation efforts.

Investigators also looked at museum best practices, and offered cultural competency recommendations for the future.

The containment of Kensington’s drug market demonstrates the systematic racism that plagues Philadelphia, Eduardo Esquivel writes.

The goal is to resettle Afghans arriving in the state after landing in Virginia as soon as possible, a State Department spokesperson says.