The Penn-Kidder Campus of the Jim Thorpe Area Elementary School has released its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2011-2012 school year.
Honor rollGrade 3: Gianna Barile, Rebecca Benincasa, Sha...
Blue Mountain Health System is hoping to save $1 million with the help of Carbon County's credit rating.
During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board of commissioners authorized Blu...
The Schuylkill County Salary Board met following the commissioners meeting Wednesday at the courthouse and set salaries for new appointees and eliminated and created job positions.
Melissa Chewey, Pot...
Nov. 10, 2011
I'm wearing one of my Penn State logo dress shirts to work today, not because I want to be a target of snickers or snide comments. I'm wearing my Penn State logo dress shirt to work toda...
A Fleetwood man escaped serious injuries when his truck struck a deer in Rush Township late Wednesday afternoon.
Norman Fuhrmann was traveling on Fairview Street, at 5:52 p.m., when a deer ran out of ...
Palmerton has passed a pair of resolutions related to the eventual site where it will construct its new fire station.
Borough Council, on a pair of 5-2 votes on Thursday, adopted two separate resoluti...
State Route 248 will have single lane travel restrictions between State Street and Center Street, Parryville, next week for overhead bridge work on the Lehigh River bridges.
Westbound will be single-l...
A woman and her dog were attacked by a bear on Thursday at 9:27 p.m. in Jackson Township, Monroe County, according to state police at the Fern Ridge barracks.
The victim is Suzan Merritt, 38, of Reede...
State police at the Frackville barracks are investigating a criminal mischief incident whereby a backhoe owned by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was damaged.
The incident happened betwe...
For the fifth straight year the retirees from county jobs will not be getting any kind of an increase in their pensions as the Schuylkill County Salary Board at its monthly meeting held Wednesday at t...