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 ...

The targeted network stretches from Southwest Philadelphia through southern Delaware County, along an industrial corridor that dates back centuries. “Pretty much the entire waterfront is industry,” ...

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 ...

Across the nation, more and more youth are reaching for a bicycle for recreation and as a means of transportation. In fact, the advocacy group PeopleforBikes found in a 2024 survey that ridership for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded on her conviction that farms should exist in cities, Amanda Staples began to build Germantown Kitchen Garden as a “hybrid homestead and tiny business” that she envisioned. “It makes it a hell ...

We know that our unwanted items, which we dutifully put in plastic trash bags that are carted from our vision, don’t vanish. In the United States, most trash still goes to landfills, where it becomes ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 11 a.m. on Valentine’s Day, Aspen Simone stood on the corner of 7th and Christian streets in South Philadelphia holding a long dowel with a laminated, cutout pigeon on the end. That wasn’t just any ...