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Rosh Hashanah begins Sunday evening and security for Pittsburgh area Jewish New Year celebrations are expected to be greater than previous years.

Members of Mighty Writers presented an original booklet containing student writings about how violence has affected them and their communities.

A woman spotted what an environmental advocacy organization calls the “weirdest fish in the ocean” in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay.

This week: Are Pennsylvania police dropping the ball tracking racial profiling? Lt. Gov. John Fetterman discuses recreational marijuana in Pa.. Then, fall gardening cleanup.

It’ll be the supermarket chain’s second location in Center City.

Janet Ruth Falon is a Philly area Jewish poet who uses the intersections of her identity to make meaning of the world.

The Philadelphia Historical Commission is expected to rule on a historic district in Overbrook Farms, limiting development in the turn-of-the-century community.

Hundreds of people participated in the 57th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, paying homage to the first inhabitants of their island: the Taíno.

Two years later, some survivors are not yet back to work. Some of those injured are waiting for their next surgery. Widows are raising kids alone while still healing.

The rapper’s rise to international celebrity has helped bring #bikelife into the mainstream.

One goal of the mental health summit is to dispel the stigma associated with mental health issues in black communities.

On Monday, victim compensation funds in Philadelphia, Allentown, Scranton and Pittsburgh will close to applications.

If not for being a woman, her name would be as well known as Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and Washington.

The nonprofit’s many farmers markets around the region are expected to continue as usual.

Registration is now open for the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Tree Philly Fall Yard Tree Giveaway.