The developers are telling us it has to be this size and this intensity to make sense for Sheetz, but our variances are not there to accommodate them. They are there to protect us,” ...

A Central Berks Regional Police officer was killed Friday when her cruiser crashed while she was responding to a call, the department announced Saturday morning. Officer Kristen Yeager, 42, of ...

It’s been a battle, but it’s safe to say Reading Fightin Phils closer Alex McFarlane has returned to the path toward reaching his full potential. The 24-year-old, selected in the fourth round of the ...

The members of the BAAAhd Girls/BAAAhd Company “Sheep to Shawl” team from the Walk In Art Center Fiber Arts Guild took a break from their looms and spinning wheels to try their hand at another form of ...

Trinity Lutheran Church, 527 Washington St., which was founded in 1751 and is one of the oldest continuously worshipping congregations in Berks County, will open a year of 275th anniversary ...

Amid all the things that divide us, pit us against one another, and alienate friends and family today, baseball may be one of the last common threads still holding us together.

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week.

Four of the five Berks teams that qualified for the PIAA lacrosse tournament will be on the road in the opening round, with only District 3 Class 2A girls champion Wyomissing at home. The Spartans (20 ...

A Lower Heidelberg Township man will spend the rest of his life in prison for grooming and sexually assaulting two girls inside a shop he operated at the Berkshire Mall. Steven P. Najarian, 54, of the ...

A man wearing medical scrubs walked into Diamond Credit Union’s Spring Township office on May 20 and attempted to deposit a $2.2 million U.S. Treasury check into a newly opened business account tied ...

Muhlenberg, riding a four-game win streak that carried the Muhls to the district title, open play in the PIAA Class 6A baseball tournament on Monday at home. The Muhls (18-7) host District 1 ...

South Western scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning and held on to beat Wilson 11-9 in the third-place game of District 3 Class 6A softball playoffs on Thursday. The Bulldogs (19-4) will ...