Portland News

The Northampton County coroner hopes to test tissue from a leg found Sunday in the Delaware River against DNA samples collected from a teen who went missing in the river in late May.

COUNTING PILES NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE how much slate waste exists in the Slate Belt.

The search is to resume for an 18-year-old man who disappeared after jumping into the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania.

There are some quarry concerns in Northampton County tonight. Some environmental watchdog groups say contaminants from unlined quarries could be leaking into the groundwater.

Five unlined coal ash disposal sites in Pennsylvania are among 210 in the nation that pose an extremely high cancer risk for nearby residents who get their drinking water from wells, according to a new analysis of a 2002 federal report.

It's becoming a familiar sight these days in Portland: contractors out in people's front yards, digging up the ground to install lengths of greenish-blue pipe.

Portland's post office dilemma isn't just a modern-day tempest in a teapot, it's part of a larger discussion about how Americans are going to send and receive mail in the foreseeable future -- and whether the U.S. Postal Service is being forthcoming about what kind of facilities it can afford to maintain in smaller communities.

The doors opened at 10 a.m., and within an hour 600 people jammed the aisles at Fernwood's Event Center.

Lower Pottsgrove's congressman, Rep. Charlie Dent , and members of his staff will visit Sanatoga to meet with constitutents next Friday from 10-11 a.m. at the Lower Pottsgrove Township municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd.

A 29-year-old Portland man was arrested Saturday night on charges he assaulted a relative on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Some of your tax dollars could be going toward making liquor store workers nicer.

Residents of one Northampton County borough are trying to deal with the delivery of some bad news.

On the inside, the Portland post office looks very modern, all shiny metal and high-tech equipment.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission on Monday reviewed reports of inspections done last year on its 13 free bridges.

PORTLAND There's always something special about a pedestrian-only bridge crossing a wide, wintry river.

The E-ZPass slowdown on Interstate 80 coming back into Pennsylvania could soon be a thing of the past.

Warming to her subject, she gestures across a large map spread across a conference room table in the Regional Enterprise Tower.

Steve Blume, a maintenance worker for the Borough of Portland, reaches for an American flag on Route 611 in town on Thursday.