The soaring rhetoric of campaign trails often meets the hard realities of governance once candidates take office. Competing demands, limited budgets and City Council’s own priorities can make for a ...

In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which ...

The seven-term state representative lost his bid for reelection amid extraordinary circumstances, including his family ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker is requesting state and federal help with the recovery effort and said those conversations began ...

The Mexico-bound medical transport Learjet 55 crashed Friday evening. Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that two people out of the 24 who were on the ground during the crash and were injured remain ...

The Learjet crash near Roosevelt Mall on Friday killed seven people – six on board and one person who was in a car near the crash site, Mayor Cherelle Parker said at a news conference Monday ...

Three people injured on the ground when a jet crashed in a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, killing seven people, remain in critical condition, Mayor Cherelle Parker said Sunday. Parker said 22 ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said that a total of seven have died in the plane crash, which occurred Friday evening. Approximately 19 others have been injured, but she noted that there could be ...

The Mexico-bound medical transport Learjet 55 crashed Friday evening. On Sunday, Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that four people out of the 24 who were on the ground during the crash and were ...