Changing Communities

Public planning meetings can be contentious, to say the least.

The town that’s home to Penn State is growing. State College borough expects a 20 percent increase in housing units — mostly downtown student rentals. Not everyone is happy.

Home to Penn State University’s main campus, State College and the larger Centre County area have been steadily growing in terms of population and economy.

It aims to protect the vision of Edmund Bacon, the master planner who transformed the neighborhood into one of Philly's wealthiest during the urban-renewal era of '50s-'60s.

When Schuylkill Yards was first announced – Brandywine Realty Trust’s proposal to turn 14 acres of largely empty, Drexel University-o ...

Casey was spurred to act by the opioid epidemic. More than 100,000 children in Pennsylvania are being raised by grandparents and other relatives.

After sprouting from vacant land in Sharswood in 2012, North Philly Peace Park was displaced by a $500 million redevelopment plan by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

Some experts say the FCC underestimates how many Pennsylvanians lack access to broadband internet. A statewide research aims to set the records straight.

Philadelphia has seen its share of old church buildings neglected and even torn down, but a new collaboration seeks to transform them into community assets.

America's lawmakers skew older, and they skew male. Right now, only 1 in 5 members of Congress are women.

A study by Bucknell University’s Institute For Public Policy counts Pennsylvania as one of the states where residents are most skeptical of free trade agreements.

Following national trends, Pennsylvania’s population is getting older and slowly becoming more diverse ...

Attorneys say arrests at or near workplaces are becoming more common in Pennsylvania, as the U.S. ramps enforcement of immigration laws.

Hearings begin Thursday in what’s described as a fact-finding mission to ensure equity on all sides.

A Pennsylvania Senate bill advancing in the state legislature would require insurance companies to reimburse EMS for calls that don't end in a hospital trip.