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After a Colombian nightclub closed, Sandra Colon hosted her own viejoteca in the living room of her Northeast Philly rowhome.

Philadelphia’s poverty rate, a stark and stubborn indicator of hard times that has long hindered the city’s reputation, dropped to its lowest level since 2008.

Several pantries, soup kitchens, and a women's shelter in New Jersey are the beneficiaries of fresh seafood thanks to a pilot "gleaning" program that began in August.

The city is trying something different: a grant program to support initiatives led by the community, in areas where access to healthy food is most needed.

Mark your calendars for rhapsodies — Bohemian and alternative — plus festivals for music, beer, and arts lovers, and the annual Puerto Rican celebration.

For three days this week, they’re protesting that last year only 44% of Philadelphia homicides were solved.

While economic opportunities will be a key focus, conference organizers are also hoping to reduce the stigma around the usage of medical cannabis.

Officials say New Jersey's flood zone buyout program has closed on its 700th property. 

Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said only trace amounts of dangerous hydrofluoric acid remain at the damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery.

U.S. Census director Steven Dillingham got an update on Delaware's progress reaching "hard-to-count" groups ahead of the 2020 Census.

Philadelphia’s growing Latinx population has a new place to turn for news.

This week: an explainer on Pa. gun laws and the efforts to expand them, the move to reform standardized testing in N.J, and Voicemail Poems.

Elizabeth Willing Powel was an underappreciated architect of the United States.

A Neumann University student videographer was surprised during a live newscast with color-corrective glasses purchased by his classmates.

A flight-training program that traces its lineage to the Tuskegee Airmen is expanding with new planes.