Public Safety

City officials are brokering a deal they hope will extinguish a feud over Philadelphia’s fire code.

Why a western Pa. company that's become a major player in the global tear gas trade is also embroiled in a legal battle with neighbors of its manufacturing facilities.

A tsunami warning was temporarily issued for coastal regions of Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula, but it has since been canceled.

Why did James Alex Fields Jr. plow his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year?

Stephen Stirling and Disha Raychaudhuri are among a team of reporters for NJ Advance Media behind The Force Report.

In his final journal entry, on November 16, Chau left instructions with the fishermen for contacting friends, family, and colleagues.

Journalist Sergio Cruel is using his investigative skills to do more than turn a story. He's searching for missing persons in Philadelphia.

The bridge was closed following a leak of ethylene oxide from Croda’s Atlas Point manufacturing facility which sits just to the south of the New Jersey-bound span. The leak ha

A police spokesman and a representative of the city of Philadelphia both declined to comment on the pending litigation.

Anne Bryan, an art student who died in the 2013 collapse of a Salvation Army building, will have a new PAFA art gallery named after her.

We have to stop killing each other. 

The deaths of three Wilmington firefighters in a row home blaze more than two years ago is the subject of a federal lawsuit about city ma ...

Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.

School shootings have taken a terrible human toll. They have also been a boon to the business of security technology.