Crushing poverty, corruption and gang violence drive the exodus of undocumented minors, especially from Central America. “Most of the kids are fleeing some type of violence,” says Rachel Rutter of ...

Filmmaker Melissa Langer’s 2025 documentary, “In Excess,” probes into the unseen places where Philadelphia’s litter ends up.

Philadelphia is so far behind its Vision Zero goals that in 2024 Mayor Cherelle Parker moved the target of zero traffic fatalities back 20 years, from 2030 to 2050. “Vision Zero is working,” says ...

In the 340 years since Philadelphia’s founding, the city’s landscape has constantly shifted, as waves of development and redevelopment shipped out with the old and in with the new. Unfortunately, on ...

When he first saw workers changing out the streetlights on his block in Chestnut Hill, Timothy Breslin didn’t think much of it. He went to bed that night in the summer of 2022 without issue. In the ...

When a vehicle is stopped or parked in the bike lane, Amanda Parezo, a disabled Philadelphian, has to roll into the street, greatly increasing her risk of injury. “I feel like something's going to ...

If the School District of Philadelphia is to be believed, students will be better served by Lankenau closing and having its programs merged into W.B. Saul High School. Students and teachers say ...

As climate change caused flooding and extreme heat in the region and elsewhere, Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration set its sights on reducing Philly’s emissions. Before the pandemic, the City of ...

Myriam Siftar cried tears of joy. It was March 2012, and she was at the grand opening of Mariposa Food Co-op’s new home, a Greek-revival style former bank building on Baltimore Avenue in West ...

It has been five years since the pandemic disrupted Philadelphia’s recycling program, leading to service delays that stretched on for weeks and consigning the contents of so many blue bins into trash ...

SEPTA does not subscribe to Terminal, Transit’s customer experience platform. Rather, it relies on its own methods to acquire customer feedback. The agency conducts a quarterly customer satisfaction ...

Nathan McWilliams hopes his business, Tree In Me LLC, can be a training hub to give his community the tools, skills and space to connect with nature as gardeners, hikers, naturalists, conservationists ...