Schuylkill County

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced a project will begin Thursday, March 1 on the PA 54/Hauto curve realignment in Nesquehoning Borough, Carbon County. This project, which runs between the Schuylkill County line and Cedar Street, will...

   Pennsylvania State Police in a joint operation with the Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office raided establishments in Schuylkill and Berks Counties seizing synthetic marijuana, bath salts and narcotic paraphernailia. Search warrants were...

Somerset County has the unfortunate distinction of having the highest average blood-alcohol concentration for people arrested in Pennsylvania. Somerset County's average rate is 0.22 percent, almost three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Forty...

It isn't a statistic for Somerset County to be proud of — the average blood-alcohol concentration of people arrested for drunken driving in the county is 0.22 percent, the highest in the state. That average is almost three times the legal limit...

Sometimes our readers pleasantly surprise me. "Some of the Harrisburg gang that pushed through the midnight illegal pay grab are running in the Pa. primary," one of them wrote recently. "I think you promised to remind the voters who they are …...

Local Leaders From ... ... Northampton and Carbon County went before the Legislative Reapportionment Commission this afternoon, where they begged mapmakers not to carve off huge chunks of their territory in the once-a-decade redrawing of 203 House and...

Today's Watchdog column is the latest about military veterans and the poor treatment they've received from their government when they apply for benefits for service-connected disabilities. Air Force veteran Stephen Berger, who lives near Jim Thorpe, has...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. How can you tell when things are getting serious over vouchers? When Students First hits the airwaves with a new public service announcement calling on lawmakers to pass school choice and the teacher evaluation...

A number of people wrote in response to today's column on motorists ignoring the northbound-only traffic restriction on Route 309 in Heidelberg and North Whitehall townships, suggesting that temporary traffic signals at each bridge would safely accomodate...

The annual Pennsylvania Society weekend is about many things. And nearly all of them involve some variation on glad-handing, networking, celebrating and socializing. Also food and alcohol — lots of food and alcohol, paid for out of campaign money,...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well it seems like you can't pick up a newspaper this morning without reading about Our Rick's extraordinary, come from behind defeat in the charmingly antiquated Iowa caucuses and what that might mean for his......

The joint House and Senate State Government Committee meeting scheduled for today, expected to feature the unveiling, finally, of the Republicans' new map for Pennsylvania congressional districts, has been canceled. I wrote about this Saturday. One of the...