PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A poet who originally moved from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia for graduate school has been named the city’s new poet laureate. Raquel Salas Rivera was named the poet laureate for ...

Starting Monday, the Free Library of Philadelphia is implementing new fall hours that will impact most branches and officials have announced a plan to bring back Saturday hours at all branches "very ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - When school is over, learning shouldn't stop and the best way to learn and have fun is joining a summer reading program. Kids who don't read on vacation lose reading skills and it ...

Alec Adelman and Carter Watson received $1,000 grants from the Friends of the Tuscarawas County Public Library-New ...

Meghan Talarowski of Studio Ludo designed the climbing wall at the Cecil B. Moore library with the idea that children need "risky play." (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story originally appeared on PlanPhilly.

Philadelphia is becoming the next big city to stop collecting fines for overdue books at its public libraries. The hope is that the new policy will drive an uptick in daily visitors. I'm Steve Inskeep ...