Due to the weather forecast for this weekend, the cardboard regatta race at Baer Memorial Swimming Pool in Lehighton has been postponed until May 28. Festivities will begin at 5 p.m. with the race ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that all driver’s license and photo centers will be closed Saturday through Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. Customers may ...

District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces a New Tripoli man is charged with using computer software to create child sex abuse material. Reza John Mazlum, 50, is charged with three felony counts of ...

Walnutport Borough Council on a unanimous vote recently approved resolutions to apply for both a State Local Share Account grant and Monroe County Local Share Account grant for a new firetruck. Keith ...

School, business and community leaders came together Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the expansion of a playground at the ...

Fred R. Collins of Pasadena, California, will assume pastoral duties at the Covenant Parish, according to Robert McCombs, chairman of the parish’s pastoral relations committee. Collins and his wife, ...

A family-owned and operated skating area just outside of Lehighton is about to turn a century old. LaRose’s Skating Rink, at ...

The Tamaqua Area School Board approved the following actions this month: • The first reading of three policies related to preemployment drug testing. There were no changes. • The Schuylkill County ...

A proposed 161-acre solar farm in West Penn Township has been granted an extension. On a 2-0 vote, supervisors this week granted a 30-day extension to Hole-In-One Solar Farm LLC Project. As a result, ...

A local lawmaker has asked for stop signs to be placed on both sides of the Covered Bridge in Lower Towamensing Township.

After a near-decade run, an outdoor community market that prided itself on homegrown, homemade and handmade goods in Lehighton has come to an end. Hosted by the Lehighton Downtown Initiative, the ...

America is facing a supply crisis—not of resources, but of permission. From the homes we live in to the energy that powers ...