Philadelphia

It started with one single plant on a windowsill. Lois Duffin had always been interested in houseplants, and in 1981 she decided to give ...

Historians and community residents gathered last week at La Salle University to recall the life and work of Germantown artist Benton Spru ...

Manayunk on Ice kicked off on Friday night with a 10-foot blaze of fire.  A chimney made of ice bricks, was packed with wood and ign ...

On Tuesday, City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities heard from the public about the Philadelphia Water Depa ...

The line stretched out the door of a t-shirt shop at the Gallery mall in Center City Friday afternoon where custom shirts were in high de ...

Some residents of the Delaware Valley are glued to TV screens, radios, and the Internet getting up-to-date news about the unfolding event ...

An upscale pool hall could be moving into Center City Philadelphia. Condo owners near the building aren’t exactly happy about the p ...

Philadelphia’s Public Schools could be facing a major deficit next year.  The city isn’t committing any extra funding to ...

Philadelphia’s Flower Show is just around the corner.  A new study says the event brings more into the economy than expected.< ...

City Council hearings on Philadelphia’s early retirement program for workers are getting closer to becoming reality.   Ma ...

Manayunk resident Darlene Messina is on a mission to make Main Street more bike-friendly. For years, she says, cycling along the b ...

Jeff Smith of Germantown has an old postcard that shows a steam engine chugging to a stop at an idilic looking train station, where a wom ...

It was to be yet another strike in an already taxing winter. Meteorologists were predicting a crippling ice storm. In Springf ...

(The photo slideshow features Verna Tyner at various campaign stops on Thursday morning) Verna Tyner kicked off her campa ...

39th Police District Crime Blotter Jan. 28 – Feb. 2 This district covers lower West Germantown and East Fal ...