Gov. Christie Tours Jersey Shore Towns For Sandy Recovery Update
The governor says 99.7 percent of the state's beaches are open -- a better percentage, he says, than in states not hit by Sandy.
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The governor says 99.7 percent of the state's beaches are open -- a better percentage, he says, than in states not hit by Sandy.
You may not know this, but there's a lot of green spaces often hidden from view in South Philly.
The city now has an official web page for the bike share program, at phila.gov/bikeshare.
The seven-foot-long pet boa constrictor went missing from his owner's home on Park Avenue in Swarthmore on Sunday, August 11th.
The proposed pipeline would travel south of Millville for 22 miles to Upper Township in Cape May County.
A grand jury has charged defendant Bernard Corbin with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of used cooking oil.
The project recaptures the design principles of the original 1957 work by Tansai Sano, the landscape architect from Kyoto.
Divers and search teams in the creek were combing the rough waters downstream from where 15-year-old Sebastian Sanon went in, near Frankford Avenue and Ashburner Street.
The commission says Wednesday that its Bureau of Wildlife Management is recommending the birds be upgraded to "protected" status because their numbers, and the number of places they can be found in the state, have been steadily increasing.
The Tuesday morning deluge created an angry Brandywine Creek, which overflowed in many areas.
The district is dealing with mold at Cedarbrook Middle School and lead paint at Myers Elementary.
Participants walk up and down the aisles between innings, collecting recyclable materials from fans who might otherwise throw them in the trash.
Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, says this a regular, recurring event.
The designer shoes retail for about $800. The heels have been autographed by Oprah Winfrey – all with the hope of raising money for a good cause.
All those markers being bought up for the new school year will eventually run dry, but that doesn't have to be the end of their usefulness.
Over the last month two dozen dolphins have been found dead on New Jersey beaches -- including three in Cape May County since Thursday.
Since July 9th, the carcasses of 21 dolphins have washed up, from Monmouth County to Cape May.
The West Philadelphia Coalition for Neighborhood Schools envisions the Lea Elementary schoolyard as an asset not just to the school but to the whole community and, in fact, the whole city.
While ocean temperatures at the Jersey Shore have been a little chilly lately just to the south, in the Chesapeake Bay, the water has been almost hot.
"It's important that workers at the nuclear plants feel comfortable raising concerns, either to the company, to the bosses, through their program for raising safety concerns, or to the NRC," says a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman.
The animals are being rented from Brian Knox of Eco-Goats, in Maryland.
Members of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society spent a few hours rejuvenating houseplants for drop-in visitors at PHS's "pop-up" garden on South Broad Street.
The county paid half of the $60,000 cost. The rest was covered by a federal grant.
Even a heat wave has a silver lining when you're talking about the solar power being generated at Millville's new 7.4 acre solar field.
One of the most visually dramatic and popular getaway destinations is little more than one tankful of gas away from the Delaware Valley.
