SchuylkillPhilly’s school board heard pleas to halt school closings and reconsider Watlington’s facilities plan“Closing schools ruins families and neighborhoods, especially Black, brown, immigrant and working class communities," a longtime district teacher said.Kristen A. Graham and Nate File More than 100 burst water mains, freezing rivers puts Philadelphia Water Department on alertFrank Kummer A Gladwyne estate that can be split into three lots is for sale for $8.5 millionMichaelle Bond Philly’s building plan would close this high-performing magnet. Lankenau is fighting back.Kristen A. Graham How Jamie Gauthier charted a new path to power in Philadelphia City HallAnna Orso AdvertisementJoseph R. Syrnick, retired chief engineer for the Streets Department and CEO of the Schuylkill River Development Corp., has died at 79He joined the Streets Department in 1971 after college and spent 34 years, until his retirement in 2005, supervising hundreds of development projects in the city. Gary Miles Developer’s land swap proposal stirs furor in Limerick, but Delco would gain its first state game land A crowd packed an hourslong meeting Tuesday night to oppose the swap between the state and Limerick Town Center LLC.Frank Kummer The Avenue of the Arts to break ground on an ambitious $150 million streetscape to make Broad Street greenerA $150 million streetscape project will transform South Broad Street’s Avenue of the Arts with trees, public art, traffic calming, and redesigned medians and sidewalks, starting this winter.Peter Dobrin Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thPhiladelphia will be the epicenter of America's 250th birthday celebrations, along with the World Cup and MLB All-Star Game, but there's plenty else happening here too.Stephanie Farr | Columnist Josh Shapiro’s reelection campaign in Pennsylvania starts now — but 2028 looms largeAs Shapiro looks to potential parallel runs, he’ll need to continue to build a national profile without outwardly focusing too much on the presidential picture. Julia Terruso and Gillian McGoldrick For $9.9 million, you can own this Lower Merion mansion and a bonus house next doorCreighton Road “has become the estate street,” the listing agent said.Michaelle Bond Schuylkill Trail sinkhole repaired, area reopened for Christmas Eve ‘as a holiday present’Repairs have been finished and new paving is still cooling.Frank Kummer The lower Schuylkill is up for Pennsylvania’s River of the Year. Voting is open.Online voting is open through Jan. 16 for Pennsylvanians to choose next year’s winner from three nominees: Chillisquaque Creek, Conestoga River, and the Lower Schuylkill.Frank Kummer Here’s why the Schuylkill River Trail sinkhole hasn’t been filled yetThe trail has been closed and fenced off between Race Street and JFK Boulevard since October due to a “chasm”-sized hole that formed under the asphalt. Frank Kummer SEPTA opens new $50M Wissahickon Transit Center in ManayunkThe new center on Ridge Avenue near Main Street is expected to serve 5,000 bus riders a day. Frank Kummer Who is living in all of Center City’s new apartment buildings?As new apartment towers have transformed Center City, some longtime residents have expressed confusion about who actually lives in them. A new survey looked into it.Jake Blumgart Trail project planned near King of Prussia Mall gets new funding What is the Gulph Road Connector? Here’s a look at the trail project planned in Montgomery County. Ariana Perez-Castells After Manayunk’s Bridget the Dino statue was decapitated, neighbors will decide the name for a new dinosaurBridget the Dino may have been vandalized, but a new stone dinosaur has been donated to take her place. Neighbors now get to decide its new name.Henry Savage Virginia A. Smith, retired award-winning Inquirer reporter and editor, has died at 75She joined her hometown Inquirer in 1985 after three years at the Beacon Journal in Ohio, six months at the Bulletin in Philadelphia, and earlier stints at other papers in New York and Connecticut. Gary Miles Free SEPTA fares for low-income riders could end next year. Advocates are pushing to save it.The Zero Fare program needs permanent funding, argue advocates and some elected officials. Thomas Fitzgerald See more storiesAdvertisement
Philly’s school board heard pleas to halt school closings and reconsider Watlington’s facilities plan“Closing schools ruins families and neighborhoods, especially Black, brown, immigrant and working class communities," a longtime district teacher said.Kristen A. Graham and Nate File
Philly’s school board heard pleas to halt school closings and reconsider Watlington’s facilities plan“Closing schools ruins families and neighborhoods, especially Black, brown, immigrant and working class communities," a longtime district teacher said.Kristen A. Graham and Nate File
More than 100 burst water mains, freezing rivers puts Philadelphia Water Department on alertFrank Kummer
More than 100 burst water mains, freezing rivers puts Philadelphia Water Department on alertFrank Kummer
Philly’s building plan would close this high-performing magnet. Lankenau is fighting back.Kristen A. Graham
Philly’s building plan would close this high-performing magnet. Lankenau is fighting back.Kristen A. Graham
Joseph R. Syrnick, retired chief engineer for the Streets Department and CEO of the Schuylkill River Development Corp., has died at 79He joined the Streets Department in 1971 after college and spent 34 years, until his retirement in 2005, supervising hundreds of development projects in the city. Gary Miles
Joseph R. Syrnick, retired chief engineer for the Streets Department and CEO of the Schuylkill River Development Corp., has died at 79He joined the Streets Department in 1971 after college and spent 34 years, until his retirement in 2005, supervising hundreds of development projects in the city. Gary Miles
Developer’s land swap proposal stirs furor in Limerick, but Delco would gain its first state game land A crowd packed an hourslong meeting Tuesday night to oppose the swap between the state and Limerick Town Center LLC.Frank Kummer
Developer’s land swap proposal stirs furor in Limerick, but Delco would gain its first state game land A crowd packed an hourslong meeting Tuesday night to oppose the swap between the state and Limerick Town Center LLC.Frank Kummer
The Avenue of the Arts to break ground on an ambitious $150 million streetscape to make Broad Street greenerA $150 million streetscape project will transform South Broad Street’s Avenue of the Arts with trees, public art, traffic calming, and redesigned medians and sidewalks, starting this winter.Peter Dobrin
The Avenue of the Arts to break ground on an ambitious $150 million streetscape to make Broad Street greenerA $150 million streetscape project will transform South Broad Street’s Avenue of the Arts with trees, public art, traffic calming, and redesigned medians and sidewalks, starting this winter.Peter Dobrin
Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thPhiladelphia will be the epicenter of America's 250th birthday celebrations, along with the World Cup and MLB All-Star Game, but there's plenty else happening here too.Stephanie Farr | Columnist
Opinion14 events to look forward to in Philly this year that aren’t the World Cup or the 250thPhiladelphia will be the epicenter of America's 250th birthday celebrations, along with the World Cup and MLB All-Star Game, but there's plenty else happening here too.Stephanie Farr | Columnist
Josh Shapiro’s reelection campaign in Pennsylvania starts now — but 2028 looms largeAs Shapiro looks to potential parallel runs, he’ll need to continue to build a national profile without outwardly focusing too much on the presidential picture. Julia Terruso and Gillian McGoldrick
Josh Shapiro’s reelection campaign in Pennsylvania starts now — but 2028 looms largeAs Shapiro looks to potential parallel runs, he’ll need to continue to build a national profile without outwardly focusing too much on the presidential picture. Julia Terruso and Gillian McGoldrick
For $9.9 million, you can own this Lower Merion mansion and a bonus house next doorCreighton Road “has become the estate street,” the listing agent said.Michaelle Bond
For $9.9 million, you can own this Lower Merion mansion and a bonus house next doorCreighton Road “has become the estate street,” the listing agent said.Michaelle Bond
Schuylkill Trail sinkhole repaired, area reopened for Christmas Eve ‘as a holiday present’Repairs have been finished and new paving is still cooling.Frank Kummer
Schuylkill Trail sinkhole repaired, area reopened for Christmas Eve ‘as a holiday present’Repairs have been finished and new paving is still cooling.Frank Kummer
The lower Schuylkill is up for Pennsylvania’s River of the Year. Voting is open.Online voting is open through Jan. 16 for Pennsylvanians to choose next year’s winner from three nominees: Chillisquaque Creek, Conestoga River, and the Lower Schuylkill.Frank Kummer
The lower Schuylkill is up for Pennsylvania’s River of the Year. Voting is open.Online voting is open through Jan. 16 for Pennsylvanians to choose next year’s winner from three nominees: Chillisquaque Creek, Conestoga River, and the Lower Schuylkill.Frank Kummer
Here’s why the Schuylkill River Trail sinkhole hasn’t been filled yetThe trail has been closed and fenced off between Race Street and JFK Boulevard since October due to a “chasm”-sized hole that formed under the asphalt. Frank Kummer
Here’s why the Schuylkill River Trail sinkhole hasn’t been filled yetThe trail has been closed and fenced off between Race Street and JFK Boulevard since October due to a “chasm”-sized hole that formed under the asphalt. Frank Kummer
SEPTA opens new $50M Wissahickon Transit Center in ManayunkThe new center on Ridge Avenue near Main Street is expected to serve 5,000 bus riders a day. Frank Kummer
SEPTA opens new $50M Wissahickon Transit Center in ManayunkThe new center on Ridge Avenue near Main Street is expected to serve 5,000 bus riders a day. Frank Kummer
Who is living in all of Center City’s new apartment buildings?As new apartment towers have transformed Center City, some longtime residents have expressed confusion about who actually lives in them. A new survey looked into it.Jake Blumgart
Who is living in all of Center City’s new apartment buildings?As new apartment towers have transformed Center City, some longtime residents have expressed confusion about who actually lives in them. A new survey looked into it.Jake Blumgart
Trail project planned near King of Prussia Mall gets new funding What is the Gulph Road Connector? Here’s a look at the trail project planned in Montgomery County. Ariana Perez-Castells
Trail project planned near King of Prussia Mall gets new funding What is the Gulph Road Connector? Here’s a look at the trail project planned in Montgomery County. Ariana Perez-Castells
After Manayunk’s Bridget the Dino statue was decapitated, neighbors will decide the name for a new dinosaurBridget the Dino may have been vandalized, but a new stone dinosaur has been donated to take her place. Neighbors now get to decide its new name.Henry Savage
After Manayunk’s Bridget the Dino statue was decapitated, neighbors will decide the name for a new dinosaurBridget the Dino may have been vandalized, but a new stone dinosaur has been donated to take her place. Neighbors now get to decide its new name.Henry Savage
Virginia A. Smith, retired award-winning Inquirer reporter and editor, has died at 75She joined her hometown Inquirer in 1985 after three years at the Beacon Journal in Ohio, six months at the Bulletin in Philadelphia, and earlier stints at other papers in New York and Connecticut. Gary Miles
Virginia A. Smith, retired award-winning Inquirer reporter and editor, has died at 75She joined her hometown Inquirer in 1985 after three years at the Beacon Journal in Ohio, six months at the Bulletin in Philadelphia, and earlier stints at other papers in New York and Connecticut. Gary Miles
Free SEPTA fares for low-income riders could end next year. Advocates are pushing to save it.The Zero Fare program needs permanent funding, argue advocates and some elected officials. Thomas Fitzgerald
Free SEPTA fares for low-income riders could end next year. Advocates are pushing to save it.The Zero Fare program needs permanent funding, argue advocates and some elected officials. Thomas Fitzgerald
