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https://www.tiktok.com/@keystonenewsroom/video/7308862375485099307 Watch our Social Media Manager Graham Harrington marvel at more than a million sparkling lights that have been set up for Luminature, the Philadelphia zoo’s holiday light show. Featuring over 16...
The show at Lincoln Financial Field will mark the band’s first Philly concert since 2019, and their first in the City of Brotherly Love since original drummer Charlie Watts died in 2021.
The comedian and actor has been chosen to receive the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in American humor, capping a three-decade career that has seen him rise from the open mics of Philly to become one of his generation’s most successful performers.
Yes, Philly is rich with cheesesteak and pizza options. But there’s far more to the city’s food and drink scene than that.
US Sen. John Fetterman’s office announced on Friday that the Pennsylvania Democrat secured $1 million in funding for the William Way LGBT Community Center.
After receiving pushback for commissioning a white artist without competition to design a statue of the abolitionist, city officials selected a winning design from a field of submissions.
Family, friends, and colleagues bid farewell to slain officer Richard Mendez, who was killed in a shooting at Philadelphia International Airport that also wounded another officer earlier this month.
Coming off the heels of President Biden’s recent hydrogen hub announcement, the Philadelphia region secured another key investment from the Biden Administration on Monday.
Family and members of his former unit gathered next to Waverly B. Woodson Jr.’s gravesite to honor the Philadelphia native who treated 200 wounded men while under intense fire during the Battle of Normandy.
Citing a lack of evidence, a judge dismissed all charges against Officer Mark Dial in the fatal shooting last month of Eddie Irizarry.
Sarah Laurel was a thriving professional who hit rock bottom due to addiction. Having turned her life around, she’s now working on behalf of those in recovery and on the streets with Savage Sisters.
Bodycam footage showed Mark Dial firing his weapon through the driver’s side window of Irizarry’s sedan about seven seconds after getting out of a police SUV and striding over to the car.
Outlaw leaves after a bumpy three years on the job that began just before the pandemic lockdowns and was quickly followed by intense protests that broke out in Philadelphia and across the country in the summer of 2020 over the police killing of Black people.
The 15-year sentence for Zachary Rehl was the third longest sentence handed down yet in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
Thousands of commercial janitors and building workers from Service Employees International Union 32 BJ rallied in Philadelphia on Tuesday as the union’s contracts representing 70,000 workers on the East Coast are set to expire over the next few months
The annual festival had been scheduled for Sept. 2-3 with Lizzo and SZA as the headliners.
Continuing their attacks against the LGBT community, Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to strip funding for three LGBTQ community centers during an Appropriations Committee meeting on Tuesday. Two of the affected centers are the William Way LGBT Center in Center City Philadelphia and the LGBT Center of Greater Reading.
Pennsylvania’s two biggest cities are among the most fun places in the US, according to a new study.
Officials said at least one of the seven roommates who lived with Kimbrady Carriker told investigators he was wearing a tactical vest in the days before the shooting and had guns in the house.
Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arraigned Wednesday on five counts of murder as well as charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons counts. Police believe Carriker was firing randomly at victims.
Police said the suspect is believed to have acted alone and had no connection to the victims before Monday’s shooting.
Five people were killed and two boys were also wounded in the Monday night shooting spree in southwest Philadelphia that made the city the site of the nation’s worst violence around the July 4 holiday.
The shootings took place over several blocks in the southwest part of the city. Officers chased the suspect as he continued to fire, and he was arrested in an alley after giving himself up.
While institutions like Ms. Tootsie’s have closed in recent years, you’ll still find great soul food in Philadelphia, both in traditional brick and mortar restaurants, and on the city’s thriving food truck scene.
Thanks to 2,000 tons of lightweight recycled glass nuggets made in Delaware County, temporary lanes will reopen this weekend on the damaged stretch of I-95 in Northeast Philly.
Pennsylvania’s governor set the timeline Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed since a fiery tanker accident last weekend.
During his speech, Biden highlighted his first term accomplishments, which included his response to the pandemic, and passing the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act.
Officials say the driver lost control of a gas-filled tanker before fire collapsed a section of the East Coast’s main highway.
A day after the collapse, officials said an exact timeline for the complete rebuilding of the heavily traveled highway should be available in the coming days.
The northbound lanes of I-95 were gone, and the southbound lanes were “compromised” due to heat from the fire. The collapsed section was part of a $212 million reconstruction project that wrapped up four years ago.
