Walnutport is the latest community to grapple with the issue of homelessness. Borough police Chief Jason Nothstein addressed the matter of vagrancy with borough council on Thursday. Nothstein ...

Pennsylvania was experiencing a statewide intermittent 9-1-1 outage that lingered through Friday evening. On Friday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency sent an emergency alert to ...

Rental property inspections will begin next week in Coaldale. And starting in 2026, all rentals will be inspected annual — instead of once every two years. Council Vice President Kim Gavornik posed ...

The Jim Thorpe Borough Council announced at Thursday meeting that the Jim Thorpe Police Department created a new rank. “The borough has established in the police department a corporal position,” ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is alerting parents and caregivers about the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall of SPPTTY kids bicycles due to lead levels that exceed federal ...

The more I read about the high percentage of those who hated high school the more surprised I am. Ongoing surveys by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence found through the years that around 75% ...

Yes, I love finding something neat and interesting on any of my Times News walks or hikes, but seeing a new bird for the year ...

State police at the Stroudsburg barracks were called to a reckless endangerment report at 5:46 p.m. June 14 in a field off Middle Easton Belmont Pike in Hamilton Township. Police said the complainant ...

Dear Editor, This is a cautionary tale for everyone who purchases property/homeowners’ insurance in Pennsylvania from an insurance company which also does business in California. First, a small ...

About 1,000 persons gathered at the Phifer Ice Dam Park in Franklin Township yesterday for the dedication of the Getz Family Bandshell. The Getz family, descendants of Isaac and Loretta Getz, now ...

I don’t care about making money. I don’t want more possessions or new cars or the latest I phone. I’m not interested in politics or driven by any status I might be able to achieve. I am constantly ...

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and it’s really easy to get wrapped up in all the sadness and hopelessness. Since I’ve always been a pretty pessimistic person, I feel like this can go ...