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Pennsylvania is home to a lot of old dams—many of which are privately owned. The state agency that regulates those dams says it has serious concerns about 145 of them.

Because she was Black, the contralto gained international renown before she was recognized in her hometown.

A Philly-area businessman is putting his money where his convenience story loyalty is.

The men of The Fathering Circle are taking on #MeToo and their own fathers to reckon with their past and reimagine parenting.

US Catholic bishops received a challenging to-do list Monday as they opened their national assembly

Bert Bell gets all the credit for founding the Eagles, but it was really a team effort.

Inside Bill Golderer’s big, bold — and, dare we say, revolutionary — idea for tackling poverty in Philadelphia.

Food insecurity causes drastic and unhealthy coping solutions for many high school athletes in and around Philly. But many have overcome its consequences.

A regular drumbeat of mass shootings in the U.S. has ramped up pressure on education and law enforcement officials to do all they can to prevent the next attack.

Since SEPTA implemented its new system, just 13 people got the harshest penalty — and still avoided jail.

Pa. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean wants to address a growing complaint among service members about aggressive debt collectors.

More than 200 years ago, in 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a march towards the city.

When Rhonda Gonzales was in college in the early '90s, the term "first-generation" wasn't part of her vocabulary. She was the first in her family to go to college.

Police say a luxury sports car crashed into the second floor of a Jersey Shore professional office building, killing two people.

The Frank Furness-designed bank on Spring Garden has new life as “Banca.”