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Philly’s last Rite Aid stores will close in late August
A phone survey of nearly two dozen Philadelphia Rite Aids found that the city’s last locations are set to close on Sunday, ...
Focus on kindness after the headlines about the shooting in Grays Ferry
We catch glimpses of kindness in the everyday actions of community heroes, in families spending time with their children. But ...
6 new eateries coming to Cherry Hill | Inquirer Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill will also add a dessert cafe specializing in taiyaki, the traditional fish-shaped Japanese waffles, later this ...
The impact of the DC 33 strike depended on where you live, forcing Philadelphians to get creative with their trash management
About 950,000 of Philadelphia’s 1.57 million residents live more than a half-mile from the nearest trash drop-off site.
Sixers have become stale under Josh Harris. Here’s how Philly’s WNBA team can avoid the same fate.
It will take real work for a WNBA franchise to succeed here, and under Harris, the Sixers have failed to connect with the ...
World Cafe Live CEO announces a town hall meeting as a new concert series gives home to shows moved from the venue
The same night as the Os Mutantes concert, World Cafe Live CEO Joseph Callahan, who told The Inquirer last month that World ...
VA cancels mass layoff, saying enough workers have left. Here’s what that means in Philadelphia.
Amid agency changes, some VA workers in Philadelphia were looking to leave their jobs. The agency says enough have left ...
Beloved shoe store Bus Stop Boutique to close
Owner Elena Brennan cited tariffs, high rents, and rising brick and mortar costs as the reason for the closure.
From alerting riders to changing Google Maps, here’s how SEPTA is preparing for service cuts
The transit agency’s planners have been putting together two fall schedules at the same time: One is normal. The other ...
As the NBA buzzes about VJ Edgecombe, scouts weigh in on his potential: ‘He’s going to be good. He goes hard.’
The combo guard, who had already shown he can compete against high-level competition, is receiving comparisons to All-Stars.
Opinion
Stacy Garrity can’t champion rural hospitals while cheering a bill that will shut them down
Garrity doesn’t vote in Washington. But her support of the "Big Beautiful Bill" suggests she’s willing to gamble with the health of rural Pennsylvanians for the sake of a 2026 gubernatorial bid.