Public Safety

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.

Tragedies have led a group of parents to call on TikTok to let them see all the videos accessed by their children, to keep abreast of the dangers.

An AccuWeather Alert is in place for today as strong thunderstorms are expected to move through the region this afternoon through this evening.

Philadelphia is planning to add $20 million to anti-violence efforts, targeting small groups who have not received funding in the past.

The violence occurred soon after SEPTA extended its $1.5 million contract with Allied Universal to keep security guards stationed along the Market-Frankford Line.