After months of declining gun violence, 57 people have been shot this July. Residents fear what this means moving forward ...

Philadelphians don't rest on history. We show up, we work, we celebrate, and find ways to "touch the bell" without literally laying hands on bronze ...

I’ve always loved the Fourth of July. As a native Southwest Philadelphian, I have early childhood memories of taking the trolley with my mother to watch the fireworks from the Belmont Plateau. We also ...

Imagine for a minute that you want to put an addition on your house, but it would be a couple feet over the legal limit. The City of Philadelphia refuses your application, but you decide to appeal.

Forty years ago, Tom Martinez, who died this week, was arrested in his Kensington home and charged with abetting counterfeit money laundering for one of the most violent and sophisticated hate groups ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative, which was included in the city budget passed June 12, 2025, is an ambitious effort to address the city’s affordable ...

West Philly born and raised with a slosh of Brooklyn, Big Rube partnered with Mitchell & Ness in 2000 to help make it a global brand marketing and selling high-end throwback jerseys. He has been ...

It’s a Friday evening in early summer and, while the rest of the city starts to wind down, the Community Education Center in West Philadelphia remains full — of people, of music, and of life.

The highlight of last year’s Rad Awards were undoubtedly the people — mostly women — in the room. Philadelphia entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, activists and athletes making impacts in their fields ...

Wharton lecturer and Fortune 500 executive Michael Wong didn’t set out to become a pet foster parent. He wasn’t even looking to volunteer. But he had a friend who asked Wong for help walking a dog he ...

Philadelphia is a cat town: According to the U.S. Census, we rank first among the top 15 big cities in cat ownership — almost 600,000 cats, two cats for every five Philadelphians. But outside our ...

I have email chains about my kids’ public school’s street safety that go back years. Parents at Bache-Martin, my neighborhood K-8 school, were concerned about letting their kids walk to school past ...