Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods where heroin users have lived and shot up for years.

Philadelphia's push to confront an ingrained heroin epidemic in Kensington, highlighted by the long-overdue cleanup of Conrail's abandoned train tracks, received new reinforcements this week as the ...

PennDOT will begin work next week on a year-long project to remove the aging Fifth Street Bridge in North Philadelphia and rebuild the section of the street that runs between Hunting Park Avenue and ...