Public Health

Trains and buses will return to regular schedules on May 17. The service is “not going to be perfect,” said Leslie Richards, SEPTA general manager.

The EPA has approved testing the new insects in the Florida Keys, stinging some who fought the trial for years.

Delaware is on target to start the first phase of removing the coronavirus restrictions on June 1.

Chester County has contracted with Lehigh Valley Genomics, an approved lab in Bethlehem, to monitor the tests and will offer them at two locations.

Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday evening that he expects New Jersey beaches to be open by Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start to the summer season.

As Pennsylvania, other places consider tech to track and thwart coronavirus spread, they must balance personal privacy with the need for public health data.

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

As theaters shut for the rest of the season, the next 2020-2021 season remains uncertain. The Wilma Theater asks subscribers to buy into it.

Overnight, a Philly podcast about entrepreneurialism became a roundtable about the strangest senior year in recent memory.

Kenney created the Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet with a radical goal of reducing litter and waste by 90%.

Vybe is offering the test to anyone who’s been symptom-free at least 10 days.

Pennsylvania has one of the least funded public health departments in the country, which is making it more difficult to contain the coronavirus.

Enock Benjamin, 70, was a shop steward at a meat processing plant in Montgomery County. He died in early April after becoming infected with COVID-19.

The virus seems harmless, because most people who contract it don't show symptoms. But that doesn't mean that it can’t cause the body serious harm, or even prove fatal. 

The number of people unemployed at once sets an all-time record in New Jersey.