Allentown PA

Residents of Montgomery County should mark their calendars and prepare for an evening stuck indoors as the Department of Health & Human Services takes to the streets to combat mosquitoes. To control the adult mosquito population, spraying is scheduled for Wednesday, August 20, from 8 PM to 11 PM, weather permitting,...

PALMER TWP., Pa. - Police in part of Northampton County say they are looking for a man accused of speeding off after a traffic stop, nearly hitting a police officer. Officers stopped a car for a traffic violation on Freemansburg Ave. & Old Orchard Dr. in Palmer Township around 8:20 p.m. Monday, according to a news...

Allentown with its fire department and firefighters union this past week partnered with a health-care testing company for a cancer screening. Awareness is on the rise surrounding cancer as an occupational risk for firefighters. The National Fire Protection Association says federal studies show firefighters face a 9%...

EASTON, Pa. - Easton Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying two additional individuals wanted in connection with a shooting last week. Today, Easton PD released the above surveillance photos of two individuals they believe were involved in a shooting/robbery that took place Thursday, August 14...

Commercial development at the north end of Hellertown is drawing attention from passers-by and local residents. Along with the construction of a new microhospital and medical office building on the site of the former Champion spark plug factory, Altoona-based Sheetz is building a new convenience store and gas station...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A line of families stretched outside the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley on Monday morning. Kids waited eagerly to pick out new backpacks — some in bright colors, others packed with pencils, notebooks and folders — for the first day of school. Now in its...

SALISBURY TWP., Pa. - A 20-year-old woman was pinned between a vehicle and a home after a crash in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County Sunday. Officers responded to the 1500 block of Broadway for the report of a vehicle that had crashed into a home Sunday just after 3:30 p.m., according to a news release from the...

The collision happened at approximately 2:17 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, when troopers from the Bethlehem station were called to 1016 West Pennsylvania Avenue for a reported crash, according to invesigators. The officer was traveling northbound in a marked 2023 Dodge Durango police vehicle when a 2008 Honda...

The U.S. Marshals are searching for a former Penn State Abington student accused of raping another student in September 2024.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Residents of a homeless encampment along Jordan Creek in Allentown will have more time to move out. City employees this month posted no-trespassing signs at the entrance to the encampment, telling residents they had until Aug. 25 to leave. They now can remain at the site...