Changing Communities

Pennsylvania had one of the wettest summers on record last year. The intense rainfall and flooding caused farmers across the state to lose significant crops.

Pew’s ‘State of the City’ report reads like Philly’s annual physical, clocking growth, successes, and struggles over the past 10 years.

Two years after her death, a neighborhood activist's legacy of love lives on.

The planned North Station District development could reshape North Philly for decades to come. Neighbors are organizing for construction jobs and other benefits.

The ‘community store’ version of the coffeeshop in Parkside will have space for local groups and hire from neighborhood.

Students in rural Pennsylvania face two big obstacles to college completion: cost and access. A new college is out to change that.

With signals from the Wolf administration, momentum is building for legalizing marijuana in Pennsylvania, but top lawmakers have vowed to block the effort.

Three Mile Island accounts for 10 to 15 percent of the annual revenue at Roberto’s Pizza & Subs in Middletown.

The City Planning Commission recommended a spot zoning bill that would allow St. Laurentius Church in Fishtown to become apartments without any further public approvals.

A 150-year-old Queen Village church turned Buddhist temple is on a path toward residential reincarnation.

Ed Stack is a gun owner who was a longtime Republican donor. A year after Dick's Sporting Goods became an unlikely face of gun control, it sees the fallout from its policy.

A judge’s ruling on Tuesday paves the way for a long-contested redevelopment of St. Laurentius, a crumbling Catholic church in Philadelphia’s growing Fishtown neighborhood.

The WCRP is building five new houses that’ll be affordable for the foreseeable future.

‘I have no choice but to help them. That’s the way it seems,’ said a gun owner at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg.

The latest plans for the five-story brewery include 220 apartments, five retail storefronts and 42 parking spots.