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At StoryCorps, retired Col. Denise Baken says the challenges she faced as both a woman and an African American in the Army weighed her down over time, mentally and physically.

A few hundred members of the Puerto Rican community came together Saturday to reflect on the resiliency of their homeland, two years after Hurricane Maria.

The storied enclave of some 300,000 residents has seen poverty become a burgeoning and unwanted feature over the last generation

The Robert Purvis House is being repaired despite the property owner’s inaction.

For those who live nearby, the possibility of the plant’s closure loomed for years.

Dangerous rip currents continue to impact New Jersey due to large swells from now dissipated Hurricane Humberto.

Many school students and teachers attended the march disregarding the School District of Philadelphia’s announcement that they would be marked as an unexcused absence.

The stairway near 11th and Callowhill is out of commission.

The shutdown of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, is imminent.

A N.J. contractor schemed to sidestep minority-owned business requirements tied to $2.2 million worth of Philadelphia contracts by using phony companies linked to his family.

Carnivores and vegans alike have options in food festivals, opera takes Philadelphia, and HBCUs are highlighted in this week’s “Things To Do.”

A volunteer firefighter's interest in the extremist group the Proud Boys has Haverford Township residents fighting over whether it should vet the views of public servants.

The teenage Buena Regional High School wrestler Andrew Johnson acquiesced to having his finger-length locs cut prior to a match against a rival school in December 2018.

We all have ideas about why people leave Philadelphia. A new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts puts numbers behind the anecdotes.

The "hero of Cologne" was denied the award nearly 75 years ago "over a stick of gum," according to author Adam Makos.