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Philly’s city worker strike ends after Mayor Cherelle Parker strikes deal with AFSCME District Council 33
Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
Sharif Street announces early endorsements from 10 Philly unions — surprising one of them
Announcing endorsements this far out from the 2026 primary reflects a strategic push to show consolidated support for the ...
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Phillies’ late lead slips away in 4-3 loss to the Giants on a walk-off inside the park home run
SAN FRANCISCO — All three Phillies outfielders were in a dead sprint in the outfield, chasing after a ball that Patrick ...
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Dear Abby | Husband’s new friendship puts marriage on the rocks
DEAR ABBY: I am 57 and have been married for 32 years to my husband, who retired from his full-time job last year. I still ...
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 ...
This Olympic hopeful was the Sixers mascot, Hip Hop. Here’s how that role helped him train the next wave of local gymnasts.
Bill Roth played the rabble-rousing rabbit at Sixers games. Now he is back in the gym, training gymnasts from 18 months to 18 ...
More DC 33 members are ordered back to work as another city injunction request is granted
The latest court order concerns airport emergency response workers. In the union's last major work stoppage in 1986, ...
It’s not just wages. Mayor Parker and DC 33’s contract talks have ‘several’ sticking points.
The city and the union’s original proposals show that the two sides also began negotiations with major differences over ...
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.