Health & Science

Pa. will spend up to $5 million on a new contract to ramp up cleaning in the Capitol Complex after a state custodial worker in Harrisburg tested positive for COVID-19.

Pennsylvania health officials on Monday reported no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 for the first time in more than four months.

Despite progress made on a COVID-19 vaccine, "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," the World Health Organization's director-general warned.

It’s the latest in a years-long string of beach replenishment projects in New Jersey that have spanned all four coastal counties.

Delaware will use $10 million in CARES Act funding to provide job training and employment resources to those laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Long delays make it harder to contain pandemic spread — so the city is buying new machines to process samples locally.

South Florida is emerging from the storm with relatively little damage, though local officials had braced for more serious damage including widespread power outages.

Pederson, 52, is the second NFL head coach to test positive for the novel coronavirus.

Drenching rain could bring flooding from the coasts as Tropical Storm Isaias moves into the Lehigh Valley region.

Worried about water quality in your stream? Plant a tree next to it, the DCNR says. Stream buffers reduce soil erosion and filter chemical runoff.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service said the biggest concern for the Philadelphia region is heavy rain that could lead to flooding on Tuesday.

The U.S. has surpassed more than 4.6 million confirmed cases of the virus and 154,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.

While doctors say they have more information on how to treat MIS-C, it's still a mystery why some children get it and others don't.

Doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark.