Tag: WHYY

Data from Temple University’s Hope Center for College shows that in just one month last year, 22.6 percent of undergraduate and 112.2…

Conshohocken is now offering commuters a unique form of transportation, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY.

In an effort to reduce traffic woes and sustainability concerns…

Through its Temple Promise program, Temple University is helping make tuition free for eligible first-year, full-time Philadelphia students from low-income families, writes…

Mastery Charter Schools and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are partnering to help students land healthcare jobs after graduation, writes Stephen Williams for WHYY…

In Cheltenham, many of the township’s buildings and infrastructures are outdated and badly in need of repair. Officials and residents, however, can’t agree…

A recent episode of “Young, Unhoused and Unseen” examines the biggest hurdles to finding solutions to youth homelessness in the Philadelphia region.

The podcast is…

The Cherry Street Pier was formerly a shipping dock for the United Fruit Company, but was renovated as a semi-enclosed public park with a…

A fire forced the Oak Lane Diner on North Board Street just south of Elkins Park to close in 2015, but now it will rise…

The Tibetan Association of Philadelphia has been fundraising for years to build a cultural center and soon it will have one in Norristown, writes David…

The partnership between nonprofits and local governments working on creating a continuous trail along the Schuylkill River that would run from Philadelphia to Frackville in…

Democrats Jamila Winder and Neil Makhija have won the race for the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY.

As of late…

All three seats on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners are up for election, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY.

Democratic Commissioner Jamila Winder is running…

Residents of the Twin Hills development in Chester Springs are already witnessing the benefits of having parts of their lawns transformed into meadows, writes Zo…

Sai Shettar, a senior at Spring-Ford Area High School in Royersford, has spent the last four years thinking up ways that would help fix…

Experts are weighing in from all over on Wawa’s new pizza offering, but what does the average Wawa customer think?’

Billy Penn at WHYY…

SEPTA had the historic Ambler Freight House slated for demolition this month, but the plans have been delayed for now, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY…

Theron Louis, Cheltenham High School Class of 2011 and Ayanna Clark, Cheltenham High School Class of 2014, both took home Emmy Awards after the 41st…

A new Spotlight PA analysis has broken down the opioid settlement payments Pennsylvania counties are receiving to help them respond to the drug epidemic, writes…