Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker made cleaning up the embattled Kensington neighborhood a priority. The community has long been plagued by violent crime and one of the largest open-air drug ...

Philadelphia police arrested Drury in Kensington around 10:30 p.m. Thursday on outstanding bench warrants related to a drug ...

Once a thriving working class community, Kensington has become infamous for drug use and violence. Now, after a year of ...

Pennsylvania is seeing roughly 2,000 fewer drug deaths a year. Nationwide, the number of annual deaths from drug overdoses has dropped by more than 30,000 people a year.

Despite those gains, there are still people without homes living on nearby streets and open-air drug ... of Kensington and Allegheny avenues, the site of a Market-Frankford El stop. “The status quo is ...

Philadelphia leaders on Monday shared an update on their efforts to clean up Kensington, saying homicides and shootings have fallen and police have seized millions of dollars worth of drugs.

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The Kensington organization provides housing to people entering recovery from addiction. Its founder shaped actress Ashleigh ...

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 ...

In some parts of the U.S., drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts ...

For example, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that people with xylazine-associated wounds are often denied admittance to detox and rehabilitation programs until their ...