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Last Updated: June 8, 2016 - 4:54pm

Two grocery chains with local stores say they hope to sell wine after the governor signed off on a new law allowing the practice Wednesday.

But with law still newly passed, it’s...

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Last Updated: June 8, 2016 - 1:15pm

NORTH CENTRE TWP. — A Berwick man was severely injured in an early morning crash when he lost control of his car along Route 93, police say.

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Last Updated: June 7, 2016 - 12:38pm

WASHINGTONVILLE — The company that runs the Montour Power Plant here announced Tuesday that it would add the equipment needed to produce electricity using natural gas to the coal-burning...

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Last Updated: June 3, 2016 - 2:22pm

 

ALLENTOWN — The New York-based investment group that created Talen Energy after its merger with PPL Corp. last year is now looking to take over the company that owns the Berwick...

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Last Updated: June 2, 2016 - 6:39pm

BLOOMSBURG — The Bloomsburg High School softball team beat Benton, 13-0, on Thursday to claim the District 4 Class A championship.

It's the second straight district title for the...

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Last Updated: June 1, 2016 - 6:59pm

BERWICK — Officers were prepared for trouble when they raided what they say was a large-scale heroin den early Wednesday morning.

The Columbia-Montour SWAT team and agents from...

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Last Updated: May 31, 2016 - 5:01pm

NESCOPECK TWP. — An early morning crash tore apart a camping trailer loaded with show dogs, scattering dog crates and debris along the interstate, police say...

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Last Updated: June 1, 2016 - 12:50pm

Editor's note: Probation officers took Devon Bartholomew into custody in the Milton area on Wednesday, June 1, officials said.

BLOOMSBURG — A man in handcuffs...

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Last Updated: May 27, 2016 - 9:46am

PINE TWP. — A couple barely escaped their burning home here before dawn Friday morning, then watched helplessly, unable to call 9-1-1 as fire destroyed almost everything they owned....

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Last Updated: May 25, 2016 - 1:43pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — A 60-year-old woman died almost instantly Wednesday, officials say, when a pickup truck struck her bicycle from behind.

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Last Updated: May 24, 2016 - 4:16pm

MOUNT PLEASANT TWP. — A “debris field of poultry” was strewn across Interstate 80 east early Tuesday when a tractor trailer hauling live chickens struck a car and flipped over, police...

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Last Updated: May 23, 2016 - 5:05pm

BLOOMSBURG — Vandals armed with a pellet gun shot the windows out of at least 25 vehicles parked across half a dozen local municipalities, police say.

The crime spree was...

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Last Updated: May 21, 2016 - 4:13pm

SCOTT TWP. — Two injured teens had to be cut from a car after slamming into a parked van on Bentley Drive here Saturday afternoon.

Responders covered the pair with sheets to...

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Last Updated: May 21, 2016 - 11:23am

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a Schuylkill County man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret...

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