Jeff Horvath

Lackawanna County's majority commissioners appointed Kerry Browning to lead the Office of Youth and Family Services, a role she's held in an acting capacity since late January.

A committee of representatives from eight North Pocono municipalities chose a consultant to guide a regional planning and zoning project involving Moscow borough and Covington, Elmhurst, Jefferson, Madison, Roaring Brook, Spring Brook and Thornhurst townships.

Scranton is contributing $10,000 toward a position that will coordinate the efforts of various agencies working to address food insecurity locally. That money from the city’s 2024 budget will…

HONESDALE — A 74-year-old Honesdale man is dead following a fatal house fire in the borough, Wayne County Coroner Edward R. Howell said in a news release.

They ousted a six-term incumbent congressman and Pennsylvania's longest serving Democratic senator.

A Scranton man faces felony and other charges after police say he cut a woman's head and hands with a meat cleaver Saturday during a domestic dispute.

NICHOLSON TWP. — Facing the prospect of expensive property repairs without any assistance from the state or federal government, a grateful Ryan Kiernan found the help he needed closer to home. Kier…

NICHOLSON TWP. — Facing the prospect of expensive property repairs without any assistance from the state or federal government, a grateful Ryan Kiernan found the help he needed closer to home.

HONESDALE — The Wayne County coroner's office is investigating the death late Monday of a federal prison inmate, who died in the emergency department of Wayne Memorial Hospital.

Nearly half of all passenger car trips on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will see a lower toll rate in 2025 under pending changes set to take effect Sunday, turnpike officials said.