Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker in June launched an initiative to clean up the Kensington neighborhood, a community long plagued by addiction. While the streets may be cleaner, the true impact of ...

Medetomidine has extreme and fast-acting withdrawal symptoms – and the detox centers that help patients are struggling with how best to cope ...

City leaders have highlighted the progress made in Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker's ongoing efforts to revitalize the Kensington neighborhood. A key focus has been combatting crime and drug abuse ...

An investigation is underway after a two-month-old boy died following, what police said was, an 'incident' at a Kensington ...

New regulations on mobile units that provide medical care, food, water and harm reduction supplies in District 7 include limits on where and when they can operate.

Fire crews were busy fighting flames as smoke poured from a rowhome along North Front Street in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood overnight.

Philadelphia lawmakers voted Thursday to ban mobile outreach groups that provide medical care and support services to people ...

In a quiet corner of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, Kareem Mims is doing work that could one day put him out of a job, and he hopes it does. As a prevention healthcare coordinator at ...

A local organization that employs teens to tend to outdoor spaces received a $17,000 grant for the pilot program.

This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Stepping off at the Allegheny subway station in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, visitors are ...