Warm April weather brings crowds to Bethlehem businesses
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A spring scorcher with temperatures soaring into the 80's, leaving April showers in the dust. The warm weather is unexpected for this time of year, but welcome for local restaurants still recovering from a brutal winter. People in Bethlehem dressed in shorts and short sleeves in mid-April,...
Coopersburg nursery gives tips on planting during roller coaster forecast
COOPERSBURG, Pa. — While spring is feeling more like summer this week, a nursery in Coopersburg has a few tips on handling the roller coaster forecast. For more than three decades, Ken Gretz has helped people get the most out of their home gardens. Gretz is the manager at Tilley's Nursery in Coopersburg.
Movies and TV shows casting in Allentown
The glitz and glam of Hollywood captures attention starting from an early age. Beyond celebrities' Instagram Stories and red carpet poses, there are actors out there paying their dues and honing their craft in pursuit of a sustainable career or a fulfilling sideline. Submitting to casting calls is a big part of that journey.
Here are 25 acts that say they’ll play Musikfest free stages, including PA teen...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — An alt-rock band that started as Scranton/Wilkes-Barre high school students and amassed 2.5 million followers on social media platforms says it will play a free stage at Musikfest. American Vanity, formerly known as Burn The Jukebox, started as high school students from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre who posting covers...
Victim grazed by bullet during shooting outside bar in Allentown, Pa.
Gunfire grazed one person near a bar in Allentown on Tuesday night.
Five teens arrested after armed robbery and assault in Allentown
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Allentown police have arrested five people, including four juveniles, after a robbery and assault that unfolded Tuesday afternoon on the city’s west side. According to a press release from the police, officers were called to the area of 15th and Turner streets around 2:05 p.m. after reports of a gunshot. When they arrived, police found a robbery victim who told officers...
At least 1 shot near bar in Allentown
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Police say they are investigating a shooting near a popular Allentown bar. County dispatchers say it happened in the area of East Siders Bar & Grill on Union Boulevard just before 11 p.m. Tuesday. Allentown Police say that injuries from the shooting are not life threatening. It...
Ashley Witkowski debuts her first novel: “A Guide to Getting Lost”
Ashley Witkowski, ‘28, entered Lehigh with the dream of becoming a pediatrician. Now, she’s an English major, Jane Austen scholar and published author of “A Guide to Getting Lost.”. “A Guide to Getting Lost” is a contemporary romance novel set at a fictional university in Boston, following...
Lehigh Tunnel crash: 2 hurt in wrong-way collision on Pa. Turnpike, cops say
Two people were hurt Sunday evening in a three-car collision near the Lehigh Tunnel in Carbon County. Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Richard Levan, public information officer for Troop T, told lehighvalleylive.com the collision happened just after 7:30 p.m. along the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension, at mile marker 71.7 in East Penn Township.
‘You can change generations’: Ground broken on affordable housing project in Easton
EASTON, Pa. - A new affordable housing project in Northampton County is making moves. Ground has been broken on Shiloh Estates II in Southside Easton. The sun is beaming down on the 100 block of Phillips Street, right around where Easton Mayor Sal Panto grew up. "None of these houses...

















