Meir Rinde

“We think we’ve hit the bottom, and that’s why we’re jumping in.”

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Standing in Pennypack where the trail opens, the crack of gunfire can often be heard in the distance.

A fed. judge may force SEPTA to scale back its effort to keep politically charged advertisements off its bus shelters and vehicles when he issues a decision later this month

The Treasury Department this month issued proposed guidelines for the program, which includes 82 zones in Philadelphia, 300 in Pennsylvania.

Wearing the flat sneakers they skate in, the self-appointed streets team poured in wet cement and smoothed the surfaces.

The organizers are calling for the city to supercharge its annual contribution to the library budget by more than 36 percent

With less than a month and a half left until the scheduled opening of the renovated Cherry Street Pier on Oct. 12, the 99-year-old structure on the Delaware River waterfront.

A competition to invent a new, better bin was launched last year by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign

As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.