Emma Jacobs

A year and a half ago, Rusty Doll bought a house in North Philadelphia. At around the same time he met a young man who was homeless and s ...

Anyone walking around neigborhoods such as Northern Liberties or South Philadelphia can attest to the fact that greater Center City is ex ...

A new development project could help solve a problem Philly’s leaders have spent years trying to fix. For 30 years, Philadel ...

A week after employees in three states filed lawsuits alleging wage theft by McDonald’s Corp., fast-food workers demonstrated for h ...

The head of SEPTA’s largest employees union says workers will not walk off the job Friday night. The transit agency’s contrac ...

It was not an easy time for teens to find work in the Philly metro area in 2000. It was worse in 2012. Already low employment rate ...

Philadelphia City Council is looking at ending a policy of police cooperation with immigration agents. At issue is whether to honor reque ...

A Philadelphia City Council hearing Tuesday focused on why immigrants have little recourse after paying thousands of dollars to “no ...

A Philadelphia judge has ordered Philly.com to turn over identifying information on an anonymous commenter who is being sued for defamati ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against the Philadelphia School District over a grooming policy it says violates employees& ...

SEPTA officials are  downplaying reports of a possible transit workers strike over contract negotiations with its largest union. ...

Technically Philly’s initiative is a goal, and not in response to any particular incident. Christina Farr, a reporter for ...