Berwick News

Local lawmakers support a proposal to keep a closer eye on certain registered sex offenders in Pennsylvania by outfitting them with monitoring devices, but some say the cost would be prohibitive.

HUNTINGTON TWP. A Shickshinny man was charged Friday with allegedly knocking a 60-year-old man to the ground after, state police say, he backed a vehicle into him on Blue Door Road on July 7. Paul David Zagata, ...

SITTING just two miles across the Border, Berwick-upon-Tweed has proved a source of contention and confusion for centuries, changing hands between England and Scotland on a remarkable 13 occasions.

A new veterans outreach office is operating out of the former Nazareth Borough Hall.

That's part of the reason his company, Eyerman, Csala, Hapeman & Handman, has undertaken the multi-phased renovation project for the Osterhout Free Library in downtown Wilkes-Barre. "My practice over the past ...

You can call it a power struggle. Some people in Northampton County are fired up over PPL's plan to put up a new power line.

Drop the Lines, a group made up of volunteers who live near the route of a proposed 500,000-volt power line, hopes it has enough opposition to stop that line.

No more animals. That is the order from a judge in Columbia County after he found a man guilty of animal cruelty.

Jonathan Banks to serve 6 months in jail, up to a year house arrest. WILKES-BARRE Jonathan Banks held back tears Wednesday as he told a judge he will spend the rest of his life knowing he was the driver in a ...

Affects funds for hospitals after Sept. ANDREW M. SEDER aseder@timesleader.com A bill that included higher Medicare reimbursements for 11 area hospitals and the extension of multiple expiring provisions under ...

William A. "Bill" Averill, 76, resident of the Village of Laurel Run and formerly of Elm Avenue Chambersburg, died on Monday, June 23, 2008 in the Chambersburg Hospital.

Carol Mertz of Lehigh Township said she became concerned when she learned PPL Electric Utilities Corp.

Battle lines have begun forming over a proposed high-voltage power line through Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

PITTSTON The Pittston City Police Department has in its possession a number of bicycles that have been found, according to a press release on Thursday.

PPL Electric Utilities has scheduled an additional public meeting, near Milford, on a proposed 500-kilovolt power line project connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey substations.

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 ; 06:23 PM Updated Friday, June 13, 2008 ; 08:42 AM But now a new technique is allowing buildings to go up even faster.

It'll take days or even weeks to clean up the mess left behind by Tuesday night's storm.

ROUTE A: Begins at the PPL switching station near Berwick and travels northeast through Luzerne and Lackawanna counties on the path of an existing power line.

Littlestown Borough Council is in the planning stages of changing the borough's Residential and Commercial Rental Unit Occupancy and Registry Ordinance, and, for some landlords, it may require more ...

There are no compelling environmental reasons not to renew the license to continue operating two nuclear reactors at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station near Berwick, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...