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Despite news reports that New Jersey is trying to woo the 76ers to build a new arena in Camden, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday said he’s confident the team will remain in Philadelphia. “The mayor is the lead on this, together with city council. We’re in...

In a summer filled with explosive political news, even the most assiduous media consumer may have missed the Pennsylvania legislature increasing the value of the state’s historic tax credit. This policy is meant to provide resources to developers to renovate buildings...

Turmoil continues to surround the abrupt closure of the University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia just over two months ago, at the end of the Spring semester. The shuttered school is now subject to a demand for immediate repayment of a more than $50 million debt,...

Visitors to the Springline complex in Menlo Park, Calif., are surrounded by a sense of comfort and luxury often found at high-end hotels: off-white walls with a Roman clay finish, a gray-and-white marble coffee table and a white leather bench beneath an 8-by-4 resin...

Sereyrath Van, known to many as “One,” has no memories outside U.S. soil. Now, the 44-year-old is fighting an order from Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) that would deport him to Cambodia — a country Van has never visited. Van had a check-in with ICE on...

Despite a month-long campaign coordinated by Southeast Asian community leaders and immigration advocates, federal authorities detained a man last week and appear to be preparing to deport him to a country he has never visited. Sereyrath “One” Van, 44, was born in a...

The Supreme Court’s momentous ruling last month in the Grants Pass v. Johnson case removed a key protection for unhoused people, allowing criminalization even when there is no available shelter. While some Democrats condemned the decision, several leaders on the West...

The Supreme Court’s momentous June ruling in the Grants Pass v. Johnson case removed a key protection for unhoused people, allowing criminalization even when there is no available shelter. While some Democrats condemned the decision, several leaders on the West Coast,...

The blue flame on the stovetops in millions of American homes is fed by a web of some 3 million miles of natural gas pipelines crisscrossing the country – including some 90,000 miles of these conduits in Pennsylvania. Regulated by an outdated set of standards, many of...

PHILADELPHIA – Today, six weeks after the Angel Davis Eviction Accountability Act was signed into law, the municipal court announced that landlord-tenant officer Marisa Shuter will cease conducting evictions. As the lawyer appointed to oversee private evictions in...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Food service workers at the stadium complex in South Philadelphia were voting all day on Wednesday over Aramark's latest contract proposal. The union representing those workers says it does not expect the new proposal to pass, however. The...

Though Pennsylvania has a lot of historic sites, it has lagged behind other states in providing tax incentives to preserve and restore them. Some classic buildings in Philadelphia are in need. Pennsylvania is packed with historic properties dating back to colonial...

The horrific death of a Philadelphia cyclist in the famous Rittenhouse Square neighborhood has local advocates demanding that the city finally install real protection on its bike lanes — and sparking a conversation about why half-measures like flex posts are so common...

On July 11, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed its 2024-2025 budget. It was 11 days past the deadline, but offered some good news for historic preservationists and adaptive reuse developers. The new budget included tax code changes that raised the historic tax...

Barbara Friedes’ life and career were always driven by altruism, those who knew her said. From the moment her husband-to-be, Cole, sat behind her in organic chemistry class at Florida State University, he said, he knew she was special. She was magnetic, he said,...

Barbara Ann Friedes, 30, was struck from behind by a 2018 Volkswagen on the 1800 block of Spruce Street around 7 p.m., Philadelphia police wrote in a release. The Volkswagen then hit three parked cars before coming to a rest, police continued. Friedes was taken to...

A group of workers at Thomas Jefferson University who are paid to simulate patients for medical students celebrated a victory earlier this year when they won a union election. But six months later, they say they're struggling to be taken seriously in bargaining...

When the British Consul General arrived at 3rd and Walnut streets on a drizzly Friday morning for a ribbon cutting of the newly imagined Benjamin Rush Garden, she felt right at home. Not only is the garden dominated by a bell donated in 1976 by Queen Elizabeth II, but...

“Who sits there and thinks, with all the needs we have in America, of criminalizing the homeless?” wonders Pastor Robert Brown of Bristol’s Bible Evangelical Methodist Church after learning that the United States Supreme Court approved punishing those experiencing...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Democratic senators in Pennsylvania are drafting a bill to prevent the criminalization of homelessness in the state after the Supreme Court recently ruled that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places.

HARRISBURG, PA — In response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, several Pennsylvania state senators announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at preventing the criminalization of homelessness. The proposed law would counteract the Supreme Court’s decision in...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities can punish people for sleeping in public has some Democrats in Pennsylvania seething. The high court said laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,”...

Dear Democratic Senate Leaders, As the 2024 budget season kicks into high gear, we are writing to ask that you work to ensure that renewable energy legislation and climate solution policies currently pending in the legislature are included in any final budget...

Preservationists and developers are keeping their fingers crossed for new state funding to revitalize historic buildings. Two bills introduced this month would significantly raise the annual cap for the state’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, a public...

HARRISBURG — State Senators approved a bill protecting Pennsylvania’s investments in Israel and related companies, one that would allow lawmakers to withhold potentially millions in funds from any university that would choose to divest in protest of the Israel-Hamas...

Student protests on college campuses called on universities to pull their investments from Israel over the war in Gaza. While some schools agreed to at least discuss divestment, Pennsylvania higher education institutions will not have the choice if a bill continues...

(The Center Square) – Recent critical remarks from top-ranking state officials, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, have not deterred Palestinian support among progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups in Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, Sens. Kristin Phillips-Hill,...

From a park bench to a sky-high restaurant table to a simple seat on a SEPTA bus, here’s where notable Philadelphians prefer sitting. We reached out to some notable Philadelphians to discover their favorite spots to sit and soak in the city. From a park bench to a...

This weekend, the Rosenbach Library and Museum is hosting its annual marathon reading of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” an event held every year on June 16, or Bloomsday, the calendar day experienced by Leopold Bloom during the entirety of the novel. The Rosenbach owns...

“President Joe Biden’s most likely path to re-election is a narrow one that relies on the same three states that gave Donald Trump the Oval Office in 2016 and then yanked it away from him in 2020 — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — along with a single electoral...

Hundreds of cooks, servers, bartenders, dishwashers and concessions workers employed by Aramark protested in Center City on Wednesday, June 12. The workers, represented by UNITE Here Local 274, gathered on the bridge near the Aramark global headquarters along 24th and...

State Sen. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) was among around 50 people arrested Wednesday during a protest in south Philadelphia at a rally in protest of Aramark’s treatment of Philadelphia stadium workers, his office said in a news release. Hundreds of people rallied...

UNIVERSITY CITY - Union organizers say about 50 people were arrested protesting outside Aramark’s corporate headquarters in Center City on Wednesday. Food service workers from Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park and Wells Fargo Center were calling for higher...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday afternoon during a protest outside Aramark's headquarters in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval was among the protesters arrested while calling for better wages and health care. Workers...

A Pennsylvania State Senator was one of dozens of protestors arrested in Philadelphia this week, and he's speaking out. Represented by UNITE Here Local 274, food service workers from Wells Fargo Center, Lincoln Financial Field, and Citizens Bank Park picketed at the...

Hundreds of Aramark workers blocked off Market Street in a massive demonstration at rush hour Wednesday. Demonstrators gathered on the bridge outside of Aramark's headquarters at 24th and Market streets beginning at 4 p.m., and disrupted traffic by sitting in the...