The current Council, is unusually inexperienced, with 12 of 17 members serving less than two terms, and is legislating at the ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker signed an executive order Wednesday that will launch the first steps of her major housing policy, ...

The mayor told the Chamber of Commerce she will announce “a significant city financial commitment” for housing and propose ...

Services were held at the Star of Hope Baptist Church on Friday for influential businessman and community leader Sid Booker, ...

Josh Shapiro, and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker toured the crash site together, received briefings from investigators, and held a news conference to reassure the neighborhood around ...

A seventh person inside a vehicle was killed on the ground. Mayor Cherelle Parker said two more people who were hurt on the ground have been identified, bringing the total to 24. Four people ...

and the investigation into the tragedy remains "fluid and active," Mayor Cherelle Parker said. All six people on the plane and one person in a car on the ground were killed in Friday's crash.

The Mexico-bound medical transport Learjet 55 crashed Friday evening. Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that two people out of the 24 who were on the ground during the crash and were injured ...

Three people injured on the ground when a jet crashed in a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, killing seven people, remain in critical condition, Mayor Cherelle Parker said Sunday. Parker said 22 ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says in total, six people aboard the jet and one person in a nearby vehicle were killed. Twenty-four people were sent to nearby hospitals. "We are reminded that ...