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With legislation from Minority Leader Kendra Brooks, Philadelphia sets a new standard for protecting the most vulnerable workers. Today, City Council voted unanimously to pass the POWER (Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights) Act, which empowers workers and the City’s Department of Labor (DoL) to hold employers...

If you looked at the numbers, student fights or assaults are down in the School District of Philadelphia. But experts tell Action News, despite the data, the fights that do occur are becoming increasingly violent and too often due to parents, relatives and friends getting involved. This includes Wednesday's melee...

The pastor of St. Denis Parish in Havertown, Pennsylvania, who recently met Pope Leo XIV , shared a little-known Philadelphia connection about the pontiff. The Rev. Kevin Gallagher said it's still settling in that American Cardinal Robert Prevost , a man with local ties whom he saw just last week in Rome as part of...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. A bill that would create regulations and restrict where mobile vans can provide health care, harm reduction supplies and other services in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is headed to the mayor’s...

A death investigation is underway after a woman was reportedly thrown from a moving vehicle Thursday night in Philadelphia's Parkside neighborhood. The discovery was made just before 9:30 p.m. on the 5000 block of Parkside Avenue. Police say officers found a 32-year-old woman unresponsive, with injuries to her face...

Officials in the FBI's Philadelphia Field Office have announced that their investigators are working with the Philadelphia Police Department in the hopes of tracking down a man sought in a deadly shooting that happened last year. On Wednesday, FBI officials said that their office is working to find Byshere Smith,...

KENSINGTON - A woman was killed after someone stabbed her in Kensington, officials say. Police were called to the 3500 block of Kensington Avenue Thursday afternoon, just before 4 p.m., on the report of a stabbing, according to authorities. SEPTA police rushed the woman to Temple University Hospital after finding...

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia woman was sent to prison after she admitted to stabbing and injuring another woman during an altercation on a Lower Merion Township parking lot. Qadirah Yasmeen Russell, 32, of the 200 block of Shawmont Avenue, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 22- to-60-months in the State...

Robert Francis Prevost -- who took the name Pope Leo XIV -- emerged onto the balcony at St. Peter's Basilica Thursday as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. But, he would also be the first ever American pope and the first pope to have graduated from a Philadelphia area college.

Have a question about Philly’s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from you! Ask us a question or send us a story idea you think we should cover. Lawmakers on Wednesday took aim at Mayor Cherelle Parker’s ambitious housing proposal, asking pointed questions...