Residents in one Wayne County community paused to reflect and remember the thousands of lives tragically lost from 9/11.
The skies were clear, and just as blue 20 years ago from today.
Reminiscent of that fateful day when 3,000 people were killed after hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York.
Elected officials, local first responders and clergy addressed their…
It's been forty years since Allentown has had a direct train line to New York City. But there's a vision to change that in as little as three years.
This new Amtrak vision would put a station not only in Allentown, but Bethlehem and Easton too. But whether it becomes reality hinges on that infrastructure bill you've heard a lot about.
It's a plan leaders, local and regional, hope will…
SCRANTON, Pa. (WOLF) — The Scranton Fire Department has been awarded $2,596,047.50 through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program to support the hiring of ten firefighters to join the department’s ranks.
U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) made the announcement Thursday…
Federal dollars will be coming back to Scranton to help prevent fires.
Wednesday, Congressman Matt Cartwright, Mayor Paige Cognetti and Fire Chief John Judge announced nearly $43,000 is coming to the city. That money will help continue the city’s Smoke Detector Program.
The Department of Homeland Security grant will purchase 2,000 10-year smoke detectors and 1,000 carbon monoxide…
"This is a day we deserve. We're united as labor and we're going to stay united," Rosemary Boland said Monday.
There were passionate words throughout the morning as union members celebrated Labor Day with an annual event in Scranton, honoring the American labor movement.
"We are a world away from where we were," representative Kyle Mullins (D- Peckville) said.
A world away after…
Matt Cartwright and Brian Fitzpatrick are political anomalies.
The two Eastern Pennsylvania congressmen come from different political parties: Cartwright is a Democrat from the Scranton area, while Fitzpatrick is a Republican from Southeastern Bucks County. But the political pressures they face are not that dissimilar. In 2020, despite Cartwright winning by more than 3…
Seven years ago, the Scranton Restaurant opened its doors in Herat, Afghanistan. Dreamed into being by maverick women’s rights activist Suraya Pakzad and partially funded by Scranton-area donors, it was a safe space for women to network, express themselves freely and share strategies for creating female agency in a malevolently misogynistic society.
Pakzad established five shelters…
State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, joined a crowd of local Democratic legislators and organizers for a “Raise the Wage” rally on Public Square, calling on the government to raise the federal minimum wage in order to better serve the American people.
A light rainfall made for some dreary conditions on Sunday, but the weather wasn’t enough to dampen the spirit of Alicia Duque, the…
Sarah Valonis put a very human face to the call for more affordable child care, talking of her daughter pulled from the Building Blocks Learning Center program during the pandemic.
The girl seemed to disappear at home, until the Laflin mother found her under the dining room table crying, a math workbook nearby.
“She said ‘I can’t do it. I just can’t do it’,” Valonis told the people…
U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright and U.S. Senator Bob Casey joined Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown and climate advocates Monday for a press conference to call for immediate action to address increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events affecting Pennsylvania’s communities.
The event was hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania and part of a grassroots…
