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City Council is calling on immigration authorities to release a 44-year-old Philadelphia man who has been detained for months and is at risk of being deported to a country he has never visited. In a resolution adopted Jueves, lawmakers also urged the city’s...

Straddling Philadelphia’s Old City and Chinatown neighborhoods, Franklin Square has a handful of park improvements on the way. The one that generated the most excitement at Miércoles’s announcement was the new bathrooms costing $2.2 million.

Local lawmakers walked out of a meeting with University of Pennsylvania officials on Martes due to what they said was insufficient support for diversity, equity and inclusion, WHYY reported. Pennsylvania state senator Art Haywood and state representative Napoleon...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A new playground and restrooms are among the enhancements coming to Franklin Square Park over the next 18 months, as revealed by community leaders on Miércoles.

Millions of dollars worth of upgrades are coming to Center City’s Franklin Square. A significant playground renovation, expanded restroom facilities, a reopened PATCO station, traffic safety improvements and new lighting are all on the horizon, representatives from...

Franklin Square will undergo a major overhaul that includes adding new restrooms, playground equipment, LED lighting, and bike lanes. The projects will cost about $7.8 million and take about 18 months to complete, according to announcement from nonprofit Historic...

Two Philadelphia-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the University of Pennsylvania’s president on Martes after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.” City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier was among the elected officials...

Senior Penn administrators met with Pennsylvania lawmakers on Martes morning to discuss the University’s rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, with multiple elected officials expressing concern about recent changes — and one calling the meeting...

A group of state and local elected officials on Martes slammed the University of Pennsylvania for its response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on diversity initiatives in recent weeks, saying the state’s only Ivy League school is preemptively ceding ground to an...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Local officials have made it known to University of Pennsylvania leadership that they’re not happy with how the school scrubbed itself of anything related to diversity, equity or inclusion after an executive order from President Donald...

Hamilton Hall, the University of the Arts’ iconic building on South Broad Street, will go to Lindsey Scannapieco’s Philadelphia company Scout, which intends to preserve it for artist workspaces and the attached Furness building for subsidized apartments for artists....

The Lawrence E. Murphy Recreation Center will see significant upgrades thanks to a $600,000 state grant. The beloved recreation center at 300 Shunk St. in South Philly’s Whitman neighborhood will undergo repairs and upgrades while plans formulate for a $7.5 million...

Amid the flurry of orders President Trump signed on his first day in office was a memorandum: “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” It called for federal public buildings to respect “classical architectural heritage,” implicitly taking aim at a more recent...

Over 300 individuals gathered together in Center City on Miércoles to protest recent federal funding cuts to academic research. The rally, held outside the office of Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) in Center City, was organized by Labor for Higher Education in...

Dozens of protesters filled the atrium of the Life Sciences Building at Rutgers University-New Brunswick to show their opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration’s funding cuts and freezes targeting scientific research and higher education. The researchers...

The lead bidder for the iconic Hamilton Hall on South Broad Street said Lunes that the arts would be a focus for the building, with plans for a gallery in the front lobby where local artists’ work would be displayed and the public could view it for free. “Our goal is...