A motorcycle driver was killed Sunday morning when he was hit by a wrong way driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in ...

Fire companies from throughout Schuylkill County were dispatched Monday evening to a barn fire in Walker Township. The blaze was reported shortly before 7 p.m. at 4 Koch Lane just south of Valley ...

Miss Marjorie Wieder of Weatherly High School was announced as the winner of the Monroe and Carbon Counties Essay Contest sponsored by the American Legion National Education and Scholarship Committee.

“Smoking Gun” hitmaker Robert Cray leads the pack of entertainment coming to local and regional venues over the next two weeks. The musician, a 2011 Blues Hall of Fame inductee, will play Penn’s Peak, ...

State police at the Fern Ridge barracks reported the following incidents: * Gary Sztybel, 63, of Gouldsboro, was cited for retail theft (shoplifting) after police were called to the Shoprite store, ...

A Lehighton family has been displaced from their home after a fire broke out Sunday night in the borough. Borough fire Chief Patrick Mriss said firefighters responded at around 9:30 p.m. to a single ...

The Industrial Archives & Library in Bethlehem is the recipient of a donation of the photographic and film work of the late ...

Bowmanstown is applying for grant for a walking path in a proposed multiuse park in the borough. On a 6-1 measure, borough council recently voted to submit a state Department of Economic and ...

The Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company held its fourth annual Outdoor Adventure Day Saturday on the fire company ...

Two Tamaqua residents were charged following a fight that happened on the second block of Rowe Street around 8:24 p.m. March 25. Tamaqua police received a report of a fight involving seven people but ...

The Monroe County commissioners pointed out some upcoming events during their most recent meeting. Commissioner David Parker said the Monroe County Founders’ Day will be held on Tuesday. “There will ...

Lehigh Township supervisors have delayed final payment on the new maintenance building. Vision Mechanical requested final payment No. 12 of $45,234.45 for the new maintenance building. The board ...