Public Safety

Over the course of two days this week, a state House panel pushed forward a raft of gun control measures that have accumulated in the chamber in recent months.

Tales of horror and tragedy, of loved ones lost or grievously wounded by automobiles, rolled out in waves before a handful of City Council members.

To ensure the safety of visitors to New Castle County parks, police officers are cracking down on their enforcement of the county’s dog off-leash code.

Authorities have made a second arrest stemming from a deadly shooting at a 24-hour arts and music festival in New Jersey.

Artists and community organizers take stock of the Trenton's successful Art All Night event in the aftermath of a deadly shooting.

Aalayah Eastmond narrowly survived the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Fighting for change ever since, she will visit Philly on Monday.

Art All Night, put on every June for 12 years, has been a bright spot in New Jersey’s long-struggling state capitol.

Internal briefing documents show FEMA never had 500 generators on the island before the storm — it had 25.

Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri says it appears that several Trenton-area gangs had a dispute at the venue, and multiple suspects began shooting at each other.

The measures include a background check requirement for private gun sales, a ban on armor-piercing bullets and a 10-round limit on gun magazine capacity.

The island's government still lists the official death toll from the hurricane as 64 despite evidence that it's vastly under-counted.

Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections has been pushing for legislative reforms to change how the city regulates group living facilities.

Annual demonstration brings hundreds of young people to Philadelphia Museum of Art steps to call for changes in gun laws.

The city of Wilmington has launched an online crime mapping program aimed at improving transparency, and the police department’s interaction with the public.

A Pennsylvania man was arrested Monday morning after displaying a sign referencing a bomb in a Wildwood supermarket parking lot, authorit ...