With less than a week before SEPTA’s drastic service cuts take effect, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said she is in ...

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker on Friday framed the planned major SEPTA service reductions as devastating to the city and to the ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker said she has faith that lawmakers in Harrisburg will “find common ground” and approve transit funding in the state’s budget.

To get more officers on patrol, tasks like data entry and issuing permits will be given to non-uniformed staffers, Mayor ...

The city awarded Philadelphia police increased wages, a bonus and more benefits over the next two years, city leaders ...

Cherelle Parker, who is set to take office on Jan. 2, will announce Philadelphia's new Managing Director on Tuesday. The position oversees the city's operating departments and helps provide ...

Cherelle Parker was sworn in as our city’s 100th (and first female) mayor yesterday, ushering in a new era for Philly politics. (More on that, and more 2024 political predictions by Ernest Owens ...

COMMUNITY POLICING Parker begins her term as the city’s homicides decline compared to the over 500 murders in 2020 and 2021. Theft, however, is becoming a growing issue.

Parker then left the hospital Tuesday night, according to the statement. "Cherelle is resting at home and grateful for all the well wishes, thoughts and prayers she received," a statement from her ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Cherelle Parker, a Democrat who has held office at the state and local level after first becoming involved in politics as a teenager, was elected Tuesday as Philadelphia's ...

Cherelle Parker won the Democratic mayoral primary this week in Philadelphia. It's a Democratic Party stronghold, so she's expected to win the general election in November.

Cherelle Parker, the lone Black woman in Philadelphia’s crowded mayoral race, made history late Tuesday after beating eight other Democratic candidates in what was expected to be a razor-thin primary.