The bow-tied W. Thacher Longstreth agreed to meet a few young people who wanted to celebrate Mother Earth. In the spring of 1970, they called it Earth Day. “I thought at first it was just a ...

Philly showed growth in population every year from 2006 to 2020, but that trend came to a halt when the pandemic hit. Like ...

In 1985, City Council member Joan Specter teamed up with Mayor Wilson Goode for City Hall’s first art exhibit. The next year, ...

Grove City Council voted 4-3 on Monday night to approve a special use permit for a marijuana dispensary that came before them for the second time. However, Mayor Richard “Ike” Stage said later ...

City Council is considering new legislation right now aimed at reducing the financial burden on renters. Officials say Philadelphia renters face too many barriers when trying to secure housing.

Big City Sandwiches serves more than two dozen types of sandwiches from New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago and Brooklyn. Owner John Bettigole runs the sandwich shop with his family, using family ...

The city’s Education ... co-chaired a special committee in Council Chambers to investigate the addition of a “Chief of Joy” to the School District of Philadelphia. Parents, staff, and ...

On Monday, the City Council’s Licenses ... key voter deadlines and details about the Philadelphia and statewide candidates. The Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO chose not to endorse either candidate ...

Known as inclusionary zoning, the overlay applies to the 3rd, 4th and 7th council districts, which include swiftly gentrifying sections of West and North Philadelphia like University City and ...

Jimmy Harrity, a Democrat and sitting member of the Philadelphia City Council, sent messages to several ... Another user, eva.fax, posted an image in January of a woman in a bikini captioned ...

5,000 residents who fled the attack on Baga are currently staying in a Medecins Sans Frontieres refugee camp in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state, 160km from Baga. This satellite image shows ...

She was able to drum up support from her neighbors and apply for a repaving from the city. Council President Kenyatta Johnson, D-2nd District, and Councilmember Anthony Phillips, D-9th District ...