PlanPhilly Archive

After a Harrowgate firebombing, City Council is considering a bill that would allocate $500,000 to help people under threat of retaliatory violence.

Philly Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sánchez called for reforms immediately after news broke of her colleague Bobby Henon’s bribery conviction.

As Local 98 prepares to move forward with new leadership, Mayor Jim Kenney noted the contributions made by Dougherty.

The verdict comes more than 6 years after the FBI began wiretapping phones belonging to Henon and Dougherty, and five years after the federal investigation exploded into view.

A jury found City Councilmember Bobby Henon and union boss John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty guilty on most counts in the federal corruption case against them.

A board game is helping Philadelphia officials determine the future of a public works project in a community often left out of public decision-making.

Every delay in Vision Zero projects in Philly means more potential injury and death on our streets. With more funding and action, we can have safer streets.

Southwest Philadelphia residents say warnings about health hazards from a junkyard fire needed to come sooner and more directly.

A portion of the Vine Street Expressway could be capped and Philadelphia’s Chinatown reconnected thanks to President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

The jury in the bribery trial for Bobby Henon and Johnny “Doc” Dougherty ended its third day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict.

At the city’s newest coffee shop in West Philly, there aren’t any pumpkin spice lattes or many adults, because at Stomping Grounds, young people are in charge.

The jurors’ question may indicate they are nearing the end of their deliberations in the federal corruption trial of Bobby Henon and John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty.

Observers see a slow-moving storm set to destabilize a housing market that is already strained by unmet demand for decent, affordable options.

The government’s ambitious rhetoric around climate is too often dangerously out of step with its own actions.

The juror who tested positive was excused from the case and all the other jurors have tested negative, the judge said.