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One bill would eliminate Traffic Court in all but name only, transferring its functions to Municipal Court. The other measure would allow for an amendment to the state constitution to formally eliminate it.
The William Penn Foundation, has placed a hold on grants to the city while it awaits clarification of lobbying restrictions.
A city council committee was not horsing around when its members approved the first-ever regulations on keeping a horse as a pet in Philadelphia.
President Obama will participate in a Google Plus Hangout on Thursday to answer questions about his State of the Union address.
Governor Tom Corbett is reaffirming his commitment to full privatization of liquor sales in Pennsylvania.
If you are among the 4,000 Pennsylvania residents who has a Florida-issued "concealed carry" weapon permit, you have four months to get one from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or you will be in violation of the law.
The biennial report from the Philadelphia-based Public Health Management Corporation is one of the most comprehensive regular studies of its kind of an urban area in the US.
Embattled Philadelphia city councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown says she has no intention of resigning from office despite a growing ethics scandal that has now reached into the federal prosecutor's office.
You're not fighting the police award, local labor leaders were asking Mayor Nutter today, so why are you continuing to fight the firefighters' arbitration award?
Evesham Township mayor Randy Brown has spent the last five years working as a kicking consultant for the Baltimore Ravens.
It was standing room only as the newly formed Pennsylvania United for Immigration Reform made a collective statement on the type of comprehensive legislation they would like to see.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is lashing out at a former White House doctor who said she worries about the governor dying in office because he is so heavy.
Acknowledging that they have an uphill battle, several Democratic members of the Pennsylvania House today introduced a package of gun safety bills, including a measure to ban assault weapons.
Mayor Michael Nutter is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take up the question of whether he can impose a new contract on the city's blue-collar workers' union.
McDaniel, the former campaign treasurer for Reynolds Brown, was recently fired from his city-paid airport job after the city Board of Ethics identified numerous reporting irregularities by McDaniel in the campaign's required city filings.
