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

After the country watched the Iowa Caucuses devolve into chaos Monday at the official start of the presidential primary campaign, the pressure has grown for election officials across Pennsylvania to maintain confidence in elections.

After a tumultuous year for the Philadelphia police department, activists and leaders are excited but also have high expectations for the city’s newest police commissioner.

Danielle Outlaw, the former chief of Portland, Ore., police, was introduced at Philadelphia City Hall on Monday afternoon. She is the first black female police commissioner and will oversee the fourth-largest municipal police department in the country.

Joe Gale is a 27-year-old Republican Montgomery County Commissioner, one of three elected officials charged with overseeing 3,200 employees and a $390 million budget in Pennsylvania’s third-most populous county. How did a 20-something who lives with his parents in the Plymouth Meeting house he grew up in pull off one of the most surprising election victories in memory?

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A 15-year-old girl was shot around 55th and Vine Streets in West Philadelphia Thursday night. The shooting increased the number of children shot in the city this year to 108.

Recent violence against children in Philadelphia prompted city council to call on residents to perform gun checks inside their homes. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia has the details.

Philadelphia city officials and anti-violence advocates are calling for guns to be surrendered after a series of shootings involving minors in the city.

Thousands of people took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators hurled bricks and smoke bombs, breaking a rare pause in violence that has persisted during the six-month-long movement. In the largest of three rallies, a key thoroughfare along the waterfront on the Kowloon side of Victoria...

A week after Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout fell apart, disagreements and distrust about it remain on issues such as its timing, who was invited and who could film the quarterback. In conversations with The Associated Press, representatives from both sides blamed each other for what went wrong on Nov. 16. Kaepernick’s side said the NFL orchestrated a workout as a...

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph was fined $50,000 by the NFL for involvement in a helmet-swinging brawl in a game against the Cleveland Browns.

A “risk-limiting audit” of Philadelphia’s Nov. 5 general election is being conducted by state and local election officials Thursday that will determine if the results are valid.

Myles Garrett looked composed and casual, a stark contrast to the last time he was seen in public. Stylishly dressed in a bright blue suit and black turtleneck, the Cleveland Browns’ star defensive end met Wednesday with an appeals officer in New York in hopes of getting a reduction to an indefinite NFL suspension that has temporarily ended Garrett’s season...

Several fire trucks were taken off the streets in Philadelphia during the recession, limiting coverage in Roxborough, Frankford, Old City and South Philadelphia. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, fire trucks are heading back to four fire companies in the city. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia has the details.

An opinion piece written by Philadelphia Eagles star safety Malcolm Jenkins and published by the Inquirer that recommends reforms for the city police department was labeled “racist” by the city police union’s president.

Myles Garrett will soon learn when he can play again. The Cleveland Browns star defensive end, who was suspended indefinitely after the NFL ruled he used a helmet “as a weapon” to strike Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head, will have his appeal heard by the league early this week, a person familiar with the timeline told The Associated...

Philadelphia’s sanitation fleet has been involved in about 2,000 accidents since June 2015, with two-thirds of the crashes determined to be the garbage truck driver’s fault, according to a newspaper analysis.

More people have died in Philadelphia fires this year than at any time since 2014, statistics show. On Wednesday, the fire commissioner addressed the increase during a graduation ceremony of an unusually large class of new firefighters. The 121 new hires allow the department to open up stations that have been closed since the Great Recession a decade ago.