Public Safety

Philadelphia has declared a heat health emergency through 8 p.m. Friday. The city has recorded five heat-related deaths so far this year.

Calling it “incredibly successful,” N.J. Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced that another gun buyback event will take place in October.

A kid-sized piece of Denmark has landed in North Philadelphia. The new park is a first for Philly.

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for much of the Greater Philadelphia region — with real feel expected to reach 105 degrees.

The series comes amid a historic and unrelenting surge in shootings and homicides in Philadelphia.

A summer program — Kicks Up, Guns Down — has this goal: to show kids there are better ways to handle conflict than shooting someone.

Even activists and city leaders paying close attention to Philadelphia’s gun violence prevention efforts say they don’t know specifics about how funds are being spent.

The Anti-Violence Community Partnership program will announce its first recipients in early September.

Police spread out across Philadelphia to join with residents for National Night Out events with the goal of fighting crime.

Young people are changing their travel routines and asking for help traveling around the city as the gun violence epidemic shatters their sense of safety.

The message directed at Mayor Jim Kenney was a simple one: Do more to address shootings, which predominantly affect communities of color, or get out of the way.

Thursday's storm resulted in nine tornadoes across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the National Weather Service confirmed.

County residents and businesses can now apply for federal disaster loans from the Small Business Administration.

Four years ago, the government set a benchmark calling for every agency to commit to having no less than 12% of its employees made up of people with disabilities.

There were a dozen or so injuries reported around the Bensalem area after the tornadoes. Hopewell Township in Mercer County was also among the hardest hit in N.J.