Thousands of Philadelphia city workers deemed essential are no longer earning pay at a rate of 150% per hour after Mayor Jim Kenney ended a policy put in place at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.

All 30,000 city employees are still receiving full pay, including about half also receiving an extra 50%. Fiscal watchdog agencies say they are watching to see how the city moves forward at a meeting Friday.

Philadelphia police are cracking down on people who are not following the city’s stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic. NBC10’s Steven Fisher has the details.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine gives hours by which the virus can last on surfaces. A Drexel University epidemiologist says spreading the infection has little to do with cereal boxes and dollar bills.

Lawmakers have reached a deal on a massive stimulus package aimed at blunting the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. After five days of negotiations, an agreement was reached overnight on nearly $2 trillion to help workers and businesses affected by the coronavirus.

But as sites ramped up Monday, a bigger focus of testing is becoming clear: health care workers, first responders and those already hospitalized. That’s in part because testing potential cases among the general public may be losing steam as a containment strategy.

Crime in Philadelphia is up double digit percent — across the spectrum of illegal activity — in the first three months of 2020 when compared to the same period last year, according to new statistics released Monday.

A large drive-thru testing site outside Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia opened Friday — and was busy again Saturday. There are strict criteria for testing: You must have symptoms and be a health care worker or a person older than 50.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw lays out her department’s temporary policy about arrests for some nonviolent offenses and other changes that are being made amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Malcolm Jenkins, one of the most recognizable sports stars in Philadelphia, has been released by the Eagles. Jenkins, who helped lead the Eagles to their first Super Bowl championship in 2018, will become an unrestricted free agent, the team said in a statement posted to their website. Jenkins later penned a letter to his fans on his Instagram account. During…

He is just the thing we need in these confusing, troubling times. The world’s most popular mascot — (Sorry, Phillie Phanatic, but let’s be honest with ourselves at this point) — has returned in a letter he posted to Twitter. Honestly, it uses much better grammar than his previous public screeds.

Gov. Tom Wolf said he was not shutting down the state-run liquor stores on Friday, but by Saturday the state said it would shut down all stores in Philadelphia’s four suburban counties.

A student at Methacton High School in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, became the state’s second high school student to be identified as testing positive for coronavirus. The unidentified student is currently in self-isolation, according to an email from the Methacton School District. The state Department of Public Health, which is coordinating Pennsylvania efforts to contain the virus, notified the...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said the state’s liquor stores have not been ordered closed.

The City of Philadelphia took three big steps Wednesday to cleaning up city streets and improving its recycling rate.

As Super Tuesday results roll in, momentum in the Democratic primary changes. Watch our special coverage live now.

Fourteen states and a U.S. territory will determine which candidate receives a portion of their combined 1,344 delegates on Super Tuesday. Three former presidential candidates rallied behind former Vice President Joe Biden as Bernie Sanders head into Tuesday at the top of the polls. Elizabeth Warren will need a sizable showing after the polls close to stay in the race.

Two families with lifelong secrets unearthed because of home DNA test kits are now dealing with the truth. Here’s what their stories tell us about the shock that can come from new ancestry technology, and how to deal with it.

The shuttered refinery in South Philadelphia currently going through bankruptcy has long been known as one of the city’s biggest polluters. A new report details just how dirty the complex was before the June 21 explosions and fire.

Cameras inside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery caught on video the massive blasts early June 21 from just yards away.