Philadelphia

Oronde McClain, who was shot in the head at age 10 in Philadelphia, shares his story with WHYY host Cherri Gregg.

Philadelphia Water Department officials defended a 2018 rate increase by saying it would help the city meet water main replacement goals.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has indefinitely postponed the vaccine mandate for the city’s unionized employees.

The transit agency is on a hiring binge that it hopes will restore its workforce after two years of pandemic-related attrition and hiring freezes.

The performances of ‘Finally Unfinished’ by world-renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz are free with museum admission and will only be seen in Philadelphia, only this weekend.

The Sixers recently announced a partnership with a Chinese technology company. After reporters and fans dug into the company, the team backed out.

The teen in custody posted the photo from inside the school, investigators say.

The lawsuit filed in Minnesota alleges Center for COVID Control either failed to deliver results or delivered inaccurate results.

Homebuyers have paid a premium to live in the Penn Alexander catchment. Will the same trend reshape the Lea school catchment if Penn invests there?

The Library Company of Philadelphia partnered with Kwasi Hope Agyeman to make an online “Hidden History” video about an exhibition on historic racism.

The Valiants of Philadelphia, a fraternal society of Black and Latino firefighters in Pennsylvania, helped organize the safety effort.

The plan, introduced Thursday on behalf of Council President Darrell L. Clarke, makes few significant changes to the existing district lines.

Philadelphia officials have publicly mourned the loss of life but said nothing concrete about changes to fire safety policy before now.

Use of the tech elsewhere has raised some privacy concerns. Philly officials say in this case, the data is highly anonymized.

A jury found that Henon used his seat on City Council to do the bidding of powerful labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty.