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76ers leaders told the City Council that they are unwilling to budge on the $50 million community benefits agreement accompanying their proposed Center City arena, despite calls from lawmakers that …

SEPTA is planning to raise fare prices nearly 30%, eliminate dozens of routes and significantly slash service frequency in the new year to address its budget deficit, as authority leaders seek to …

Pennsylvania’s red shift in the 2024 election wasn’t isolated to the presidential race. Statewide races for attorney general, auditor general and state treasurer all went to the Republican …

City Council hearings on the 76ers proposed Center City arena – which has drawn strong opposition from activists in Chinatown – are set to begin this week. Representatives from Mayor Cherelle …

Joe Picozzi and Sean Dougherty – two young political upstarts from opposing parties – emerged victorious in a pair of hotly contested Northeast Philadelphia state legislative races from last …

The immigration debate has long shaped political agendas in the US and Europe, often escalating in times of social or economic uncertainty. In the US election, a tough-on-immigration stance from …

Mayor Cherelle Parker declined to second-guess Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign or the Democratic Party’s strategy after former President Donald Trump carried Pennsylvania en route to an …

Donald Trump will be the only US president since Grover Cleveland at the end of the 19th century to be re-elected for non-consecutive terms. His risky electoral strategy has clearly paid off, …

Republican Dave McCormick had a razor-thin advantage over Democratic incumbent Bob Casey Jr. in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race as election results continued to come in Wednesday. Casey had not …

Candidates in two overlapping Northeast Philadelphia state legislative districts were separated by just hundreds of votes a day after polls closed in the 2024 general election. At the time Metro …

Republicans swept Pennsylvania’s three row offices Tuesday, winning races for attorney general, auditor general and state treasurer. York County District Attorney Dave Sunday won the statewide AG …

Donald Trump was elected president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House and ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic institutions …

Mike Clogston had no problem advertising his presidential pick Tuesday morning. He showed up to vote at Mayfair's Abraham Lincoln High School in a black T-shirt featuring an image of Donald Trump in …

On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, Committee of Seventy, OnePhillyConnect and other local organizations, hosted a series of community engagement events at high-traffic Philadelphia polling locations. …

Vice President Kamala Harris ended her presidential campaign with a rally Monday night on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Rocky Steps,” just hours before polls opened on the morning of …

Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election, the Harris-Walz campaign will host a rally in Philadelphia tonight. As a result, multiple road closures and parking restrictions will be implemented in the …

In November 2020, when Americans last went to the polls to elect a president, it took four days after voting closed for Joe Biden to be declared the winner. This was largely due to razor-thin …

On Nov. 5, millions of Americans will cast their votes for president. This historic election, however, is not determined by a singular national poll, but rather a state-by-state contest. Many people …

It was the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1871 when 32-year-old Catto Valentine Octavius left the Philadelphia School on Lombard Street where he was a teacher and began walking towards his home in South …

One day left.  After an exhausting few months, Election Day is finally upon us.  Tomorrow, millions of Americans will cast their vote for the next President of the United States.  For …

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