Philadelphia on Monday plans to temporarily shut down a stretch of Kensington Avenue — a street known worldwide as an open-air drug market — to clear out homeless encampments. Kensington has for years ...

Gloria Cartagena Hart vividly remembers the scenes and sounds of her Kensington block just three years ago: The streets filled with trash. The sidewalks lined with dozens of people openly using drugs.

Philadelphia police will send 75 foot patrol officers into Kensington next week to start the second phase of the city's plan to address quality of life concerns related to high levels of violence, ...

Dozens of new police officers graduated from the Philadelphia Police Academy on Monday and their first duty will be to hit the streets of Kensington as part of the push to improve the city's poorest ...

Legislation that would limit mobile medical and outreach services in Kensington will face a final City Council vote next after an amended version was approved Thursday. Councilmember Quetcy Lozada ...

This story was originally published by Kensington Voice, a fellow member of the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative. Sign up for Kensington Voice’s newsletters here. Thomas Bradley approached the ...