Monroe County voters will fill two seats on the Court of Common Pleas this year, with the upcoming retirement of judges Art Zulick and Margherita Patti-Worthington. Five people having filed petitions ...

Schuylkill Township residents will be paying $15 more for garbage collection in 2025. Meeting Wednesday night, the supervisors decided to raise the $200 annual garbage tax — which is payable in June ...

By October, the scale of the crisis was clear. State grants that thousands of students were counting on to pay for college were weeks behind schedule. The botched rollout of a new federal financial ...

Concerns about air quality related to trains operating in Jim Thorpe took center stage at last week’s borough council meeting, where several residents described persistent, troubling diesel odors and ...

State police at Troop N, Hazleton, have announced a sobriety checkpoint/moving DUI patrols will be conducted through the southern region of Luzerne County beginning today and continuing throughout ...

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple protests have been held outside U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson’s Bellefonte office. That includes a March 18 event where constituents voiced ...

A Weatherly Area fifth grader saw his artwork transformed into a police patch that will be worn by school resource officers.

L.B. Morris Elementary School held its Annual Kindergarten Special Agent Day recently, welcoming Detective Lee Marzen as the ...

The Monroe County commissioners announced an investigation at their meeting on Wednesday morning and said the matter was referred to the Pennsylvania attorney general. Details were sparse.

Tamaqua Area School Board decided to take more time with a project to erect a storage building and new concession stand at the stadium. The board discussed options last week during committee ...

The Carbon County Sheriff’s office handed over $51,000 to the board of commissioners in an attempt to help save the county funds. On Thursday, Sheriff Dan Zeigler approached the commissioners and ...

Fire companies from numerous communities are battling a large brush fire just north of Tamaqua. The fire is burning on mining ...