City leaders marked the start of Gun Violence Awareness Month by highlighting safety initiatives. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle ...

The latest NOAA forecast models foresee smoke persisting in the skies over Philly through the day Wednesday and likely into Thursday. The combination of warmth and the smoke was forecast to drive ...

Three men were rushed to the hospital after shots were fired in Philadelphia's Tacony neighborhood early Tuesday morning.

Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help to identify at least seven suspects in connection with a violent robbery ...

Local advocates cheered Krasner’s primary victory on Tuesday, which all but assures him a third term, as an affirmation of ...

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, the city’s first Black mayor, is seeking a second term. Both are Democrats who originally ran as progressives and face a primary challenger. To some extent, President ...

A Lee Enterprises investigation found most states fail to protect vulnerable women and few law enforcement agencies punish the owners of the businesses, let alone go after their support networks.

In 2001, environmental researchers at the University of Illinois published a landmark study on crime rates in different ... blighted areas. In Philadelphia, researchers in 2018 produced a ...

Depending on what circles you frequent on social media you might not have noticed, but last year, Philadelphia saw ... In fact, crime statistics are down across the board with the only increase ...

A new interactive crime ... with a rate of 75 crimes per 1,000 population, or one crime for every 13 people. You can see how it compares to where you live using our interactive map.

Preliminary data from 2024 shows a dip in juvenile crime in Philadelphia, though it still hasn't returned to rates from three years earlier. Larry Krasner and other members of the District ...