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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 Regulated by an outdated set of standards, many of...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...