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Some communities still recovering from recent natural disasters will receive special visits by 2020 census workers next year to make sure all residents are counted.

Phil Murphy signed the bill Friday, which codifies in law the state's public trust doctrine — meaning that waterways including the ocean, bays and rivers, are common property.

This Holocaust Remembrance Week, Abe and Esther Schuster reflect on their parents' joyful view of life in a recent StoryCorps conversation.

A new Council bill, introduced by Councilwoman Parker, seeks to provide job security for workers by defining what a fireable offense is. It’s called “just-cause” legislation.

Electric line connecting Delaware and New Jersey will stretch below Delaware River in an effort to improve power grid reliability, eliminate power bottleneck.

In Philadelphia, a series of 35 volunteer-led groups will traverse the city’s neighborhoods starting Friday and continuing through Sunday May 5.

Ending the police department’s use of "stop and frisk" would be a “road to disaster,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says.

The overwhelming feeling of how much help is needed can cause distress in those who respond to emergencies like overdoses.

Philadelphia’s Chinese Lantern Festival will once again illuminate the night, Valerie June’s Astral Plane Tour stops in Ardmore, and “Fences” makes for good drama this weekend

Pennsylvania rallies staged as part of International Workers’ Day call for raising the minimum wage and supporting immigrant communities.

After 40 years, Lightbox Film Center is looking for a new home.

The $4.5 million needed to dredge shallow areas around Boathouse Row and the national racecourse means silt threatening the city’s regattas will be removed.

A shooting on a North Carolina university campus left two people dead and four wounded Tuesday, prompting a lockdown and chaotic scene in the state's largest city.

Despite a nationwide drop of anti-Semitic incidents in 2018, the Anti-Defamation League recorded the second-highest number of those events in the last decade.

On Easter Sunday, Pastor Carl Johnson confessed he had hoped the Notre Dame fire in Paris was committed by Muslims in order to justify the eradication of Muslims from France.