Public Safety

Snow and heavy precipitation may cause widespread power outages, followed by a significant drop in temperatures later this week.

We know a nor'easter is headed toward the Philadelphia region — but it also looks like its impacts could vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood.

Over five decades, the House of Umoja changed the lives of thousands of young men in Philadelphia.

Several other people were wounded, one critically, in other shootings around the city, police said.

When Joe Biden visits his Greenville or Rehoboth Beach homes during his presidency, he’ll travel in what one writer has called the “rolling, armored White House.”

With many schools and even doctor’s appointments virtual again, teachers and others must try new strategies to assess how safe a home situation might be.

In a virtual town hall, North Philly Latinos affected by gun violence called on fellow community members to join Black residents in fighting gun violence plaguing the city.

Rain will be heavy at times Monday through the early afternoon and more than an inch of rain is possible during that time.

New Jersey’s capital city has surpassed the homicide record it set in 2013.

2020 has been a particularly deadly year on Philly roads. Holidays are a time when crash rates spike. Experts worry this year could be even worse.

The fatal shootings took the city’s homicide rate to at least 445 this calendar year, according to statistics by the Philadelphia Police Department.

The boy’s uncle described a child who enjoyed solving problems before he was killed by a person who shot through his front door.

The fire was reported at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday at a home in the 1500 block of South 30th Street.

Jeremy McTamney, 26, was fatally shot in Trenton on Tuesday, marking the city’s 37th homicide this year.

The question of whether the Philadelphia nonprofit can open a supervised injection site comes down to language in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act.