Center City Store Invites Fur Coat Owners To 'Give Back' To Injured Animals
A clothing store on Chestnut Street is collecting unwanted fur coats to help injured and orphaned wildlife animals.
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A clothing store on Chestnut Street is collecting unwanted fur coats to help injured and orphaned wildlife animals.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it has already spent half its winter weather budget, but promises it will be business-as-usual no matter what the rest of the season brings.
As our odd winter weather continues, you might be wondering if your plants and shrubs will survive the winter of 2014.
One local store that sells products to help pedestrians navigate icy sidewalks has had to replenish its stock.
The pipeline plan had pitted business and labor unions against environmentalists.
"It's going to release a lot of water all at once when it goes," says one local tugboat operator.
"When moisture gets inside of these older traffic signal boxes and the temperatures drop quickly, they freeze up inside, causing problems with the signals," streets commissioner David Perri explains.
A beloved wild turkey who roamed the town of Lansdowne for months, becoming a local celebrity, is no more.
Mother Nature has packed a whallop for trash collection vehicles in the city, according to Philadelphia streets commissioner David Perri.
If there's a big winter getaway in your future but big-time snow is in the forecast, here's a way to do it with no problems.
Passengers who bought a ticket but chose not to travel due to this service disruption can receive a refund or a voucher for future travel.
Officials say the river was 65-percent blocked by 1-2 foot chunks of ice on Wednesday, leading to a seven-foot rise in the river level.
After two warmer-than-usual winters, Spring Mountain owner Rick Buckman says he'll take the colder temperatures.
They're doing this because PJM is reporting a winter record for usage. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the demand was 141,500 megawatts, breaking the record of 136,700 set in 2007. The difference, Dotter explains, is enough to power a medium sized city.
The Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland Interconnection (known as "PJM") is asking for cutbacks on your electricity usage between 3pm and 7pm today.
A physician at one emergency facility in West Philadelphia says it's not just an increase in slips and falls: the homeless and indigent make more use of ERs, too.
One of the worst sounds on a workday is that slow cranking when the car won't start.
Philadelphia city officials joined forces with volunteers working to protect the most vulnerable population -- the city's homeless -- from the frigid, potentially deadly cold snap.
In the Centennial School District, in Bucks County, spokeswoman Andrea Didio says mechanics will be coming in a little earlier.
School District of Philadelphia spokesman Fernando Gallard says with morning temperatures forecast to be in the single digits, administrators are deciding whether school should be open on Tuesday.
Commuters will have to brace for a taste of the Arctic freeze now gripping the midwest.
When the Eagles meet the Saints on Saturday evening at Lincoln Financial Field, the stands and the field will be in tip-top shape.
The Philadelphia Streets Department continues to plow and salt in an effort to get roads cleared in all neighborhoods.
Manna says it is shorthanded as it tries to maintain its pace of delivering hundreds of meals three times a day to people fighting life-threatening illnesses.
At the Superfresh store at 5th and Pine Streets in center city, customers were impressed with the condition of the stocks.
