Despite recent warm weather, DP weather writer Elyas Tecle reminds us that it is technically still winter and Mother Nature may be prepared to prove that to us come later this weekend.

Mayor Jim Kenney plans to ask city lawmakers for funding to provide 800 additional body cameras to city police officers.

This massive expansion will be called Schuylkill Yards and plans to be a market-oriented district that also holds goals of equity and inclusion within the West Philadelphia community.

The new initiative, called the Penn Futures Project, actually consists of three specific initiatives, combining the efforts of the School of Nursing, the Graduate School of Education and the School of Social Policy & Practice.

The debate over what contributions Penn owes to Philadelphia took a turn this month as Penn released its annual economic impact report detailing a $14 billion contribution to the state in 2015.

Charter schools are not subject to district-imposed enrollment caps, per a statewide code, but the SRC had been ignoring this rule since the body's inception in 2001.

Cayuga Elementary principal Evelyn Cortez and Cayuga teacher Jennifer Hughes were the first to be convicted in the test-cheating scandal that rocked Philadelphia and led to the arrest of eight educators.

Yesterday the Philadelphia Department of Public Health reported that the first case of Zika virus was diagnosed in a Philadelphia resident.

The Science Center is working with Wexford Science and Technology to expand into a full-blown community that will go by the name uCity Square.

The new Healthy Food Truck Certification Program allows Philadelphia food trucks to apply for certification to show that they are providing nutritious options to their customers. 

Led by a neon orange Jeep blasting “Burn, Baby, Burn," the approximately 1,000-person crowd effectively stopped traffic in parts of Center City.

The project will cost $7.2 million and renovate a vacant lot at 4050 Haverford Avenue.

The Financial Literacy Community Project, which is run out of the Wharton School, recruits Penn students to teach West Philadelphia high schoolers about fiscal responsibility and personal finance.

The news of the school building's revitalization was not initially welcomed. 

A Philadelphia Inquirer report found that at St. Christopher’s, one in four babies who underwent heart surgery died, which is three times the rate seen at CHOP.

A research project at Penn was recently given a grant of 1.4 million from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to develop methods of preventing and managing chronic diseases.

Campaign filings show that Cohen, a 1981 Law School graduate, was Fattah’s fifth-highest-paying individual donor in the 2014 election cycle.