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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that the application period for the grants under the Rail Transportation Assistance Program and the Rail Freight Assistance Program is open and ...

Lower Towamensing Township’s sewer plant project is moving along. Doug Kopp, a civil engineer with ARRO Consulting, gave an update to the township’s board of supervisors on Tuesday. Kopp told supervis...

The Polk Township Volunteer Fire Company’s 1993 Pierce Pumper/Tanker was sold to the Sharon Grove Volunteer Fire Company in Sharon Grove, Kentucky. The 2010 International Pierce Tanker is nearing com...

The name of the man who was found deceased at Willing Park in Tamaqua on July 29 has been released. Tamaqua police said Clint Westwood, 39, of Camp Hill, was found slumped over a bench at the south en...

Palmerton Area School District directors were briefed on a series of changes to the district’s student handbooks for the upcoming school year on Tuesday, with a focus on updates related to constructio...

Lansford Borough Council may be closer to interviewing police chief candidates thanks to a state agency. Council President Bruce Markovich said Tuesday that the state Department of Community and Econo...

The first passenger train to leave Tamaqua in over 25 years departed the station for a 4-1/2-hour, 75-mile round trip excursion. As the “Anthracite Express” pulled out of the decorated 1873 Tamaqua De...

State police at the Pocono barracks reported the following crashes that occurred on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike: • Ian S. Rogg, 65, of Effort, was cited for careless driving a...

The Palmerton Borough Water Department is currently upgrading equipment for the new radio read system. The borough posted the information on its Facebook page late Monday afternoon. “Our crews will be...