The city is home to just .5 percent of Americans, but responsible for 9 percent of all the country’s juvenile lifers.

Op-Ed: One eyebrow raising transaction shouldn’t taint perceptions of all charters.

Only Chicago, Atlanta and Milwaukee are less integrated.

Slick. Interactive. Dead useful.

A closer look at the D.A.’s justifications for not firing anyone over Porngate.

The mayoral nominee slams the church and tells Nutter to get LGBT families face time with Francis.

There’s a new political party in town, and it’s out of this world! (Sorry.)

Until the city finalizes a contract with event organizers, we won’t know.

A Philly.com report highlights the big risks and high costs of a fast-growing, ad hoc charter system.

Almost 70 percent of kids are overweight or obese in North Philly.

City Controller Alan Butkovitz called for L&I chief Carlton Williams to resign.

A $1.5 million grant from the William Penn Foundation will put a bunch of new stalls near parks and the riverfronts.

Women and minorities are underrepresented in the city’s top-paying positions.

Jim Kenney, the likely next mayor, says he’d “welcome all seeking safe home to our city.”

The council president has a laundry list of problems with how Bill Hite is running the school district.