Philadelphia

Now that City Council’s Rules Committee has approved a five-year charter renewal for the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District (BI ...

In light of a series of robberies at knifepoint in a segment of the 39th Police District, the Philadelphia Police Department has issued a ...

Sept. 24 7:44 a.m. Theft: 3xx Salaignac St. Items taken from a vehicle. 9 a.m. Re ...

A handful of Northwest Philadelphia community groups have benefitted in recent weeks from activity grants sponsored by Fourth District Co ...

Jim Foster sat down at a table on the back patio of the Trolley Car Diner & Cafe in East Falls late Friday morning and ordered eggs b ...

Nancy Smith was on her second retirement from the education field when she opened A Taste of Olive in West Chester four years ago.  ...

Piece by piece, in piles of wood and chunks of old concrete and brick, the former Van Straaten and Havey silk mill building in Wayne Junc ...

PECO is replacing new “smart” electric meters that overheated, sometimes sparking fires in the region. After three ind ...

A new push for energy efficiency is now law in Philadelphia. The bill amends the Energy Conservation portion of the Philadelphia C ...

Tuesday, Oct. 9, is the final day for Pennsylvania voters to register for the November elections. The much-debated voter ID law is ...

Following two traffic fatalities in NW Philadelphia, NewsWorks rented a radar gun and clocked some alarming speeds along Henry Avenue and ...

East Mount Airy Neighbors and West Mount Airy Neighbors are teaming up to form an education-focused committee.  EMAN’s ...

This list covers Sept. 23-23, 2012. Sept. 23 Theft: 300 block of W. Duval St. PA tags removed from 2011 Ch ...

You’ve heard of Kickstarter, but what about Lucky Ant?   Today the hyper-local crowd-funding operation branched out fro ...

The Philadelphia Police Department released surveillance footage on Tuesday detailing a shooting and an armed robbery inside a SEPTA subw ...