The announcement this week of the closure of Big Lots stores nationwide will have a serious effect on over 500 people who are employed at the company’s distribution center in Tremont, Schuylkill ...

ArtsQuest has announced the sixth Musikfest 2025 headliner, Jordan Davis, will be coming to the Wind Creek Steel Stage on Aug. 9. Tickets are on sale now at Musikfest.org. Award-winning, multiplatinum ...

Alberto Perez-Cuenca, 33, Tamaqua, was committed to Schuylkill County Prison on charges that he stole a vehicle and later got into a fight with the vehicle’s owner and his family, Tamaqua police said.

I’ve now submitted almost 400 columns to the Times News since I began this venture in 2016. My hope was to stir some interest ...

Celebrate the start of the New Year with this sweet celebration by joining ArtsQuest and Just Born Quality Confections for PEEPSFEST® Monday and Tuesday, from 3 to 6 p.m., at the SteelStacks campus.

Dear Editor, I would like to comment about the article in the Friday, Dec. 13 TN, “Carbon sets new parking fees in JT lot.” I feel that this is a bad idea because it puts parking in downtown JT out ...

The summer of 2024 hadn’t officially begun when temperatures topped out above 90 degrees. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory on June 17. In the days thereafter, heat indexes hovered ...

And then there are groundbreakers. Retired Maj. Gen. Marvin Jay Barry, U.S. Air Force, has compiled a list of accomplishments ...

Members of the Slatington Moose Lodge 1375 held their second Angel Tree Christmas event for the residents of Riverstone Manor ...

Katelyn Pownall wasn’t sure her 3-year-old son would ever meet Santa Claus. Nash was born with Menkes disease, a rare genetic ...

The Tamaqua City Revitalization and Improvement Zone Authority and Tamaqua business community again posted another year of ...

State police at the Lehighton barracks reported the following crashes: • Colton J. Stroup, 21, of Palmerton, was uninjured in a one-vehicle crash at 10:50 p.m. Dec. 20 on Hickory Road in Towamensing ...