Poor-quality houses and unusually high poverty tilt the equation so that demand far outstrips supply here, making affordable homes hard to obtain and difficult to manage.

Guest: Debra McCarty Early this month, a water main broke in Center City Philadelphia, sending 15 million gallons ...

The city's water rate board has OK'd an increase in monthly water bills, with a slight bump in September and a bit more to come in 2019.

The corner of Second and Market streets in Old City is laden with history.

It aims to protect the vision of Edmund Bacon, the master planner who transformed the neighborhood into one of Philly's wealthiest during the urban-renewal era of '50s-'60s.

What good are big plans without any funding?

The Philadelphia Historical Commission just approved historic protections for eight of Wayne Junction's old industrial buildings.

The July 3 rupture raised a lot of questions for Philadelphians. Chief among them: Is the city’s water infrastructure too old or too shoddy to prevent such events?

When Schuylkill Yards was first announced – Brandywine Realty Trust’s proposal to turn 14 acres of largely empty, Drexel University-o ...

“Billy,” the small, cast-bronze beast that has been a fixture there for more than a century, is immensely popular among pint-size denizens of the park.

Other proposals include multiple smaller flood barriers, flood walls, berms, and levees.

After sprouting from vacant land in Sharswood in 2012, North Philly Peace Park was displaced by a $500 million redevelopment plan by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

The L&I Commissioner said his agency has inspected the collapse site and concluded that Gama Wrecking Inc. of Philadelphia was following all required local standards.

In the newly approved city budget, Kenney secured $2 million to accelerate the demolition of vacant buildings the Department of Licenses and Inspections considers dangerous.