Coaldale council on Tuesday was deluged by complaints about flooding and dilapidated properties.
But the angst was tempered by a couple dashes of hope: Council awarded the job of tearing down a long v...
P.J. Johnson, left, and Cristyna Batts were selected Jim Thorpe Area High School 2011 Homecoming King and Queen on Friday when the Olympians faced off against the Battlin' Miners of Minersville. The p...
Lower Towamensing Township hopes water runoff concerns at a gated community have been alleviated.
Township engineer Greg Haas of Carbon Engineering, spoke with the township's board of supervisors on T...
The Northwestern girls cross country team posted four wins on Tuesday to clinch a perfect regular season and the Colonial League championship.
The Lady Tigers finished with a 26-0 record.CROSS COUNTRY...
Standing 70 feet up, Randy Nielson of Francis J. Hutta Builders, Coaldale, applies gold leaf to one of the crosses on St. John's Orthodox Church at 9 W. Railroad St., Nesquehoning. Nielson has already...
The entire student body of the L.B. Morris School in Jim Thorpe of approximately 700 students participated in a program as part of a "Team Up America" event with a goal of breaking a Guiness World Rec...
A Monroe County man was arrested at a district judge's office.
Pocono Mountain Regional police said Kevin Curry, 19, of Tobyhanna, arrived at the office of DJ Anthony Fluegel's office in Tobyhanna, to...
Each year the second week of October is designated as Fire Prevention Week, also known as Fire Safety Week.
Firefighters, who are busy all year training, fighting fires, responding to other emergencie...
Destin Petrides, 5 and his older brother, Chris, 12 of Kunkletown, enjoyed learning more about fire safety at Polk Township's Fire Safety Day and got to pretend they were firefighters for the day. Chr...
Council members from Coaldale and Lansford will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday to discuss whether they want to sell the boroughs' water system operations to a private company.
The meeting will be held at Co...