When a fire broke out at a garage in Tamaqua on July 11, fire companies were on the scene within minutes after dispatch despite Tamaqua Borough Council’s decision to remove the closest company to the ...

Sarah Gross, fresh off releasing her fourth studio album earlier this month, leads the entertainment coming to local and regional venues over the next couple of weeks. The folk/Americana ...

Marching band season is just around the corner, and Palmerton Area School District does not yet have a high school music teacher. Matthew Blanchard resigned from the high school music position June ...

The Tamaqua Area School District will be evaluating its schools’ antiquated electrical systems and developing a plan to upgrade them following an electrical failure at the high school this year.

Cranberry Quilt Guild will meet on July 27 with doors opening at 6 p.m. Meetings are held at Faith United Church of Christ off Airport Beltway in Hazle Township. This month’s meeting will be the ...

Spend some quality time with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang this holiday season when A Charlie Brown Christmas Live on Stage comes to the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre ...

It’s just been a few years that the Open Space Grant Program has been in existence in Carbon County, but already the budding success of it is obvious. During a gathering of the Open Space Advisory ...

Franklin Township’s newly opened recycling center is off to a promising start. Supervisor Fred Kemmerer Jr. said at Tuesday’s board of supervisors meeting that there have been quite a few people who ...

A ribbon cutting Wednesday at Jim Thorpe Borough’s new public works garage closed out more than a decade of planning, a pandemic-era setback and a multimillion-dollar federal investment that borough ...

Guests of the St. Luke’s Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at St. Luke’s Miners Campus in Coaldale have been busy stringing beads for wind chimes they’re raffling off to raise funds for the ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is giving up on its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to hold thousands of people. The plan had been held up by the state’s ...

Nativity BVM High School recognizes the exceptional academic achievements of its Class of 2026, whose outstanding performance on the 2026 Advanced Placement Exams reflects the school’s commitment to ...