Public Health

This week; checking in with NJ congressman Andy Kim, a local update on how local governments are handling the pandemic, and gardening while quarantined.

Without comment, a majority of the state’s high court late Sunday denied the petition by a gun shop, a gun purchaser and a law firm to have Wolf’s shutdown order thrown out.

Filmmaker Melissa Beatriz makes the case for Philadelphia establishing an emergency fund for artists whose livelihood is impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.

As school resources shut down, vulnerable low-income students are being left behind.

Grocery shopping, yes. Pickup basketball, no.

Workers on Wednesday packed into buses before dawn for the drive to the Shell cracker plant in Beaver County.

"This is the closest thing we have to community right now, is this church."

Philly will issue a “stay-at-home” order for all residents starting at 8 a.m. Monday. A similar order takes effect in Delaware on Tuesday through mid-May.

Top congressional leaders said Sunday they have not yet reached an agreement on the latest — and largest — coronavirus response bill, but they plan to keep negotiating.

Greenville, a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania, is one of more than a dozen municipalities struggling so badly they get extra help from the state government.

Local health systems are rushing to stock supplies, clear patients out of emergency rooms to make room for patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid point-of-care COVID-19 test, that can deliver results in less than an hour.

540 people had registered in advance by Saturday. The site will be open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., as testing supplies allow.

Temporarily suspended license expiration dates and some fee waivers are the steps being taken to free up more than 14,000 nurse practitioners.

At the same time, business owners find themselves with food that will never be served, more children and adults find themselves in need of meals.