Lehighton Borough Council recently voted to hire Robert Howard as a new police officer. Howard is originally from the ...

Lehighton plans to tap into its history as a railroad town. The borough hopes to capitalize on its storied past when its ...

A Franklin Township couple has pleaded with township officials to lower the speed limit along a busy traffic corridor. Bob ...

A Berks County administrator has been named as assistant elementary principal in the Northern Lehigh School District. On a ...

Northern Lehigh will be participating in five other sports besides football this fall. A number of talented athletes return ...

Jim Thorpe will rely on a blend of proven performers and developing talent this fall, as the Olympians continue to lay the ...

Archie M. Smith of Churchville was named elementary school principal in the Lehighton Area School District during a special meeting of the school board last night. Prior to the meeting, three ...

Plans to build data centers in the McAdoo area appear to be progressing. At Monday night’s Banks Township Supervisors meeting, the supervisors confirmed North Point Development has purchased 1,400 ...

Among the bills that were approved to pay this month by the Borough of Weissport, one bill was withdrawn from being paid: a bill from PPL Electric Utilities in the amount of $770.56. According to ...

A tree that descended from the last remaining “Liberty Tree” will begin to take root in Tamaqua next month. Borough Manager Kevin Steigerwalt told Tamaqua Borough Council Tuesday that the tree will ...

Tamaqua Area School Board on Tuesday approved emergency repairs of the drainage field following a subsidence at the high school stadium. Superintendent Ray Kinder explained that the earth moved and ...

A “WILD About Raptors” educator workshop for formal and nonformal elementary, middle and high school educators will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Carbon County Environmental Education ...