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Pennsylvania’s Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday passed legislation banning supervised injection sites anywhere in the Keystone State. Under the bill sponsored by State Senator Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia), no locality in Pennsylvania could permit the...

Over 200 Penn graduate student workers rallied outside of Van Pelt Library on April 26 to advocate for improved working conditions, financial security, and protection against discrimination. The rally comes after the group, which is called Graduate Employees Together...

Proposed supervised injection sites have become a thorny and contentious neighborhood-by-neighborhood issue — but the decision may be taken out of their hands and put into the state’s. Pennsylvania lawmakers took a step Tuesday to preemptively ban these sites across...

A group of Philadelphia parents, teachers, students, and concerned residents recently spent their spring Saturday in the basement of a Market Street office building, using red and black duct tape to put together box fans, cardboard, and air filters. Their efforts,...

As part of your job, do you receive or send emails outside of “normal working hours"? What about texts or phone calls? Is there an unspoken but spoken expectation that you’ll keep on top of your inbox before coming into/officially logging on to work, or that you’ll...

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia legislators joined colleagues in Bucks County in calling for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to investigate the cause of a chemical spill last month into the Delaware River that caused concerns over drinking water...

A private security contractor showed up at Angel Davis’ Sharswood apartment at 7 a.m. March 29 with a court order to evict her for nonpayment of rent. Two hours later, Davis left the premises on a stretcher after the contractor shot her in the head. The contractor...