Bill to expand Philly’s Rail Park on the old Reading train line clears a...
Neighbors and parks advocates have wanted to turn the abandoned Reading Railroad Viaduct into a park for two decades. A quarter-mile section opened in 2018, but plans to extend it were blocked by Reading’s contention.
Affordable housing project to be built on vacant North Philly lots
A $1.7 million grant from the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency will support the construction of 40 affordable homes on a mostly vacant and blighted block in North Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood. The grant was awarded to the Women's Community Revitalization Project, one of the city's leading developers of...
ICE Philadelphia Detains Noncitizen with Multiple Criminal Convictions Following Release from Pennsylvania Prison
On October 20, 2024, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia arrested Arnoldo Antonio Prieto-Lopez, a 51-year-old noncitizen from El Salvador. Prieto-Lopez previously held lawful permanent resident status. He was taken into custody after serving a federal sentence for possession of fentanyl with intent...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thePhiladelphia MLK Association still relevant
I still run into people who say to me, those old civil rights groups of the 1960s don’t matter anymore. I have some who say to me, “The only thing people know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he had a dream.”. Of course, that’s ridiculous....
Krasner asks City Council for more funding to keep his DA staff from becoming...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appeared at a City Council hearing Monday, calling for increased funding to investigate crimes more thoroughly and arrest “big-time criminals,” while also...
Missing Juvenile Chloe Combs from the 35th District
The Philadelphia Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating missing juvenile Chloe Combs. Chloe, who is 14 years old, was last seen on November 28, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., leaving her grandmother’s residence on the 5700 block of North 7th Street. She is 5’2” tall,...
3 men injured in targeted shooting in Kensington, police say
Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in Kensington on Sunday night. The victims were targeted by a masked gunman who got away, authorities said.
One man killed, another hospitalized in separate Philly shootings overnight
A pair of separate shootings across Philadelphia early Monday left one man dead and another in critical condition, officials said. In the deadly incident, officials said, a man -- who police did not immediately provide further identifying information on -- was shot in the chest and torso in an incident that happened...
Hamid Boyd, 19, Killed In Norristown Shooting: DA
The shooting happened around 6:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30, in the 1000 block of Powell Street, according to District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Police Chief Michael Trail. The victim, identified as 19-year-old Hamid Boyd of Norristown, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds after ShotSpotter detected...
Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Seeing a person huddled under a makeshift roof of tarps or curled up on a warm grate can evoke powerful emotions and questions. How did they get here? Why doesn’t someone help them? What...
