Kent Jackson

Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, which investigates complaints of discrimination, will hold a public meeting on Oct. 28 in Hazleton.

By borrowing $10 million, Hazleton Area School Board plans to make repairs and provide new heating and ventilation systems, burglar alarms and even air conditioning at selected schools. This will b…

Plans call for building a new parking lot at Heights-Terrace Elementary/Middle School to relieve traffic congestion that school board members worry could lead to accidents. Currently, traffic backs…

The race for the state Senate in the 27th District between Lynda Schlegel Culver and Patricia Lawton is a rematch of a special election held in January 2023 in which Culver, a Republican, defeated …

Packing supplies onto a truck for delivery to hurricane victims is among the ways that students from Keystone Job Corps Center pitch in to help the community.

HAZLE TWP. — Before entering the cold storage distribution center that Lineage opened in Humboldt Industrial Park, visitors slipped on high-viz winter jackets. Outside the temperature nudged into t…

Jamie Walsh doesn’t have to sweat the vote count on election night; he’s already guaranteed a seat in the state House of Representatives from the 117th District after surviving a Republ…

HAZLETON — Albert Ortiz said he had to speak to a state panel for students who can’t speak in English because they’re not learning the language before they graduate from Hazleton Area S…

When asking for gifts to the United Way of Greater Hazleton, Gary Perna, president and CEO, asked people to consider what they don't see.

When Tomas Vasilko traveled from Slovakia to Hazleton, following the trail of great-grandfather, he found that a Slovak Church had become a wrestling venue, the Sanctuary. Vasilko also gauged the a…