Aaron Moselle

In one of the quickest meetings in Philadelphia City Council history, members approved $85.4 million in emergency funding to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is considering releasing hundreds of prisoners to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the system.

Mayor Jim Kenney confirmed that Temple’s Liacouras Center, its parking garage and a nearby pavilion will be available for patient overflow space.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic reached Philadelphia, advocates were on the front lines of another crisis: gun violence.

20 of those infected in the city are health care workers. So when the first public testing site opens, priority will go to health workers with symptoms.

Cpl. James O’Connor was shot twice while police served an arrest warrant in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.

For the first time ever, Pennsylvania residents will be able to video chat with loved ones who are serving state prison sentences.

Chief Inspector Carl Holmes was arrested in October after an investigating grand jury recommended criminal charges against the veteran officer.

Three years after a state appellate court overturned his conviction, Msgr. Lynn is scheduled to face a new jury, but the same charges of covering up clergy sex abuse.

In his latest budget address, Mayor Jim Kenney is asking for $10.5 million for the city’s street sweeping programs. That’s roughly five times last year’s budget.

During a hearing on Thursday, more than a dozen police officers testified about taking fire — and cover — during the hourslong standoff in Tioga.

They say the state should count people as residents of the counties where they lived before being arrested, not of the counties where they’re serving their sentences.