Center City District Wins International Downtown Association's Merit Award
Specifically, the Center City District was touted for its $5.2 million renovations of the Sister Cities Park, located at 16th Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway.
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Specifically, the Center City District was touted for its $5.2 million renovations of the Sister Cities Park, located at 16th Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway.
Officials from the What It Takes Foundation have gathered the area's most successful professionals to help put 200 students on the same path to success.
Our calendar shows we're in the midst of Fashion Week, which followed on the heels of the Live Arts and Philly Fringe festivals and precedes the Philadelphia design festival and the film festival.
It was an unusual sight at Upper Dublin High School on Sunday, as hundreds of student athletes showed up for EKGs.
The family of Trayvon Martin is headed to Philadelphia in two weeks for a conference focused on curtailing violence in the Black community.
With the election six weeks away, voter ID is still an issue.
The thousand pound aluminum sign was hoisted by a giant crane more than 12 stories and fastened into place.
Physicians at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children are helping patients battle both illness and hunger.
Outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, several hundred people gathered for a rally demanding an end to "fracking."
Courtney Simmons, 17, is a cancer survivor who says donations like this have helped young people like her.
"What we're going to suggest now is that we don't require the ticket. The tower will have to provide photographic evidence and hold it for 60 days," Jim Kenney said.
Chef and restaurateur Mark Vetri (wearing yellow shirt) started the program.
The 2012 Philadelphia Lymphomathon is this Saturday morning at Norristown Farm Park.
It's a second chance for a dilapidated North Philadelphia football field, courtesy of Eagles quarterback Michael Vick.
Jefferson Health System is welcoming heart patients -- and non-patients -- to its refurbished and expanded Outpatient Cardiac Rehab facility, in South Philadelphia.
It's now called the "Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent."
"Court I was an affordable apartment (rental) complex, where Court II is an affordable home ownership complex," says the head of the Nicetown Community Development Corp.
The latest work of the Mural Arts Program, which now uses technology to keep it current, was dedicated Sunday in North Philadelphia.
This is the day Eagles fans have waited nine months for. The birds home opener.
Some 18,000 runners turned out for the 35th Philadelphia half-marathon, a runners' favorite for its flat scenic course through Center City and up and down the river drives.
The Department of State has made a change to voter ID procedures that will mean one less trip to PennDOT for Pennsylvania-born voters.
An unidentified pedestrian was struck and killed along Route 30 in Burlington County.
A Philadelphia-based nonprofit is expanding its effort to put healthier food in corner stores in the area.
The Facebook page is called the TAILS Network, TAILS stands for Transforming An Innocent Life by Sharing.
The opening of the Samuel A. Green House was five years in the making.
