Allentown PA

A Lehigh Valley plant shop soon will permanently close its doors in Whitehall Township. The Wicked Botanist will close at 1133 Third St., where it opened in December 2024. A closing date has not yet been announced. “Though the thrifty side was very fun, overall it is getting harder to...

Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers Leading the Charge Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers Leading the Charge (image credits: wikimedia) The familiar roar of gas-powered leaf blowers has become a divisive soundtrack in American neighborhoods. In January 2024, the State of California banned the sale of new small off-road engine-powered...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Troopers made two arrests after they pulled over a vehicle on I-81 to find two girls who'd been kidnapped from Tennessee. State police were alerted just before midnight Sunday about the kidnapping, according to a press release issued Monday morning. Troopers located the involved...

Care for our Animal Friends, Big and Small at Gress Mountain Ranch in Orefield. Animal Care Volunteers are responsible for cleaning pens, cages, stalls and pastures; feeding, exercising and providing for the general care of the animals. Volunteers may also provide assistance with grounds maintenance ensuring the...

Werner Enterprises will return to the Palmer Township planning commission in a few weeks with a plan for expanded parking at its truck terminal. The terminal at 2215 Newlins Mill Road opened in 2021 despite vocal opposition from the community. It has 200 trailer parking stalls and 90 tractor parking stalls.

Falls Township clears way for new high school campus. Falls Township supervisors have unanimously granted both preliminary and final land development approval for Pennsbury School District’s long-planned consolidation of its East and West high schools into a single, unified campus. The new ninth-through-12th-grade...

Crews will be out working this week. Maintenance crews from PennDOT are shifting their focus from clearing state-owned roads to repairing deteriorating pavement and a growing number of potholes this week. The repair push follows a period of weather characterized by a “rapid freeze-thaw cycle,” where temperatures...

Dangerously cold wind chills in the single digits are again impacting the Lehigh Valley on Monday morning, with the Poconos seeing colder values reaching near 15 degrees below zero. A Cold Weather Advisory is in effect until 10 a.m. in Carbon and Monroe counties. While there is no advisory for...

Some cravings do not whisper, they practically grab you by the sleeve and point you toward a diner booth. Nazareth Diner in Pennsylvania is made for that kind of moment, classic, welcoming, and ready to turn an ordinary day into a full-on comfort food win. Pull into Nazareth, step inside,...

The following is a listing of all residential property transfers in Northampton County reported during the week of Jan. 12. There were 71 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 1,520-square-foot property on Delaware Drive in Easton that sold for $334,000.