Philadelphia

The very first Thanksgiving took place several hundred miles from Philadelphia, and happened about fifty years before William Penn set fo ...

City officials have given Occupy Philadelphia protesters a Sunday-evening deadline to vacate Dilworth Plaza next to City Hall. The ...

In response to the allegations of sexual abuse at Penn State University, alumni, families and sports fans of the colleg ...

Since 1990, the Germantown High School Bears have lost their Thanksgiving football rivalry game with MLK High four times, including last ...

Each Friday NewsWorks and Germantown Avenue Parents present this list of family-friendly activities happening in the Delaware Valley. ...

Every year, I contemplate if it’s worth it: the dark drive before dawn, the hunt alongside ravenous shoppers, the conquest of disc ...

A new production of the ballet The Nutcracker will use Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill for its backdrop. This version being ...

Inside a tiny room at the Roxborough Leverington Presbyterian Church, a dozen singers, a conductor, and a piano accompanist squeeze into ...

This Friday, Manayunk’s Canal View Park will transform into a holiday spectacle of sorts for the neighborhood’s official tree ...

The City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics has announced that the city’s first lobbying registration law finally will take effect in ...

Philadelphia police soon may be enforcing a city ordinance that closes a regulatory loophole allowing more people to carry concealed weap ...

Members of Occupy Philadelphia are appealing the restrictions the city wants to impose if the group moves to a new location. Gwen ...

With the arrival of the holiday season, it’s buyer beware for toy shoppers. And, once again, a Philadelphia-based research gro ...

Holiday shopping means being extra careful for thieves both cyber and physical.   Philadelphia District Attorney Seth William ...

Philadelphia’s outdoor Christmas Village is back, but this year it’s in a new location.   The Christmas Village i ...