Community

WHYY's Morning Edition listeners celebrate their neighborhoods through haiku during National Poetry Month.

Funded by donations and grants, the 16-year-old organization grew from an idea by Absecon resident Barry Hackett whose grandson Jacob is confined to a wheelchair.

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

Monday is the final day of the City Nature Challenge. Philly is competing with 100 other world cities to find and record the greatest number of living things.

Philly’s furnace party, explained.

WHYY and Philly.com columnist and commentator Solomon Jones will host “Wake Up With WURD” starting May 6.

The Pittsburgh synagogue that six months ago was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history held a vigil and offered its sympathy after another deadly shooting

The nuclear industry argues the design of the power market is flawed.

There was no known threat after a man was detained in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution.

Private providers said expanding broadband to rural areas is too costly, but there’s potential in exploring technological alternatives in delivering internet access.

Signups more than doubled last year, thanks to the internet.

The National Weather Service says a line of severe thunderstorms marching toward the New Jersey coast Friday afternoon could spawn an isolated tornado. 

Nine sites of potential historical significance are along the pipeline’s proposed route, presenting yet another challenge for the controversial project.

Community leaders and activists rallied Thursday at Von Nieda Park, where 17-year-old Sincere Howard and 19-year-old Shirleen Caban were fatally shot.

Severe thunderstorms are possible Friday at the Jersey Shore, and forecasters are not ruling out the potential for isolated tornadoes.