Nutter supports NAACP rally

The departure comes as a long-running controversy in City Hall related to the city’s use of an incinerator in Chester to dispose of trash is expected to come to a head.

How many City Council incumbents will survive the next election? Who will run for U.S. Sen. John Fetterman's seat? And what should be Gov. Shapiro's presidential campaign slogan?

Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija said the turnout story provides a warning for Democrats as the party takes the reins of power.

For the city’s leaders, the most transformative change could be what Gov. Josh Shapiro has said will be his No. 1 priority: raising the state minimum wage for the first time since 2009.

The change to the city’s contracting process marks a shift advanced by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration as it moves away from race- and gender-conscious contracting practices.

The district attorney and labor leader Ryan Boyer exchanged pleasantries on Tuesday after getting into a spat at the spring election day lunch.

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The subpoenas mark an exceedingly rare step that suggests heightened tensions between City Council and Mayor Cherelle L. Parker.

The union that represents operating engineers will build a new apprentice training facility at the site in Southwest Philadelphia.

They were energized by Chris Rabb’s primary win for Congress. Now, the city’s left is coming for Philadelphia City Council — and they want a majority.

“Right now, we’ve heard from our constituents a lot of anxiety about what’s going on in our elections,” said Omar Sabir, a Democrat who is the chair of city commisioners.

Also on Thursday, Council members expressed public skepticism in how Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration is executing one of the mayor's signature initiatives.

DeVonté Douglass in 2021 was fired from his role in the district attorney’s office and pleaded guilty to a prostitution-related misdemeanor after fatally shooting a sex worker in self-defense.

The city is budgeted to spend the remaining $240 million by the end of the current fiscal year on June 30, 2027.

Celena Morrison, who led the Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs from 2020 to November 2024, is the latest official who worked on diversity and inclusion matters to sue Mayor Parker's administration.

O'Rourke watered down his proposal to build support among Council colleagues amid budgetary concerns.

If Squilla takes the job, it would shake up the race for his 1st District seat, and could give progressives an easier path to grow their ranks on Council.

In its report, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee portrayed Philadelphia as obstructive to ICE, saying that officials ignored 162 detainer requests between January 2024 and June 2026.

Senior Democrats in both chambers of Congress have vowed to probe what they say is the self-enrichment that President Donald Trump and people in his orbit have done at the public’s expense.

The treatment, a once-a-month shot called Brixadi, had significantly reduced the number of people misusing the daily oral version of the same drug. But it cost more than 50 times as much as the pill.

The Flyers are hopeful Luchanko won't miss too much time, per a team source. The injury is unrelated to the core procedure he underwent in the summer.

She has drawn fierce criticism from former Justice Department attorneys, who have accused her of abandoning the division’s traditional civil rights enforcement mission in favor of conservative causes.

Amere Wright, 20, was sentenced to 3 1/2 to 9 years in prison for the shooting, which seriously injured a 20-year-old man.

A national debate has unfolded over what colleges should do to prevent and respond to sexual violence since a woman filed a lawsuit alleging she was gang-raped at Cornell University.