The state Public Utility Commission approved a rate hike for UGI Utilities for the second straight year, almost 6%, but a settlement blocks the utility asking for another base-rate hike before 2029.…

The Scranton Fringe Festival returns Oct. 1-10, bringing more than 40 theater, comedy, and other arts performances to nearly 20 traditional and nontraditional city venues.

Scranton Fire Chief John Judge is leaving the department to take a new position in the State College area. And, state lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Monday with a long to-do list and a short…

PennDOT is advising motorists that utility work resumes today, Monday, Sept. 28, at Route 315 and Oak Street in the Pittston area.

A vote to reconsider Luzerne County's anti-discrimination ordinance was originally on the agenda for this week's council meeting, but county council decided to wait until a challenge to the petition…

Scranton Fire Chief John Judge is leaving the department after nearly a quarter century to become fire director for the Centre Region Council of Governments in the State College area.

WVIA's Roger DuPuis and FOX56 Sports Director Bob Ide are in the WVIA podcast studio looking ahead to this week's Friday Night Rivals game: Lake-Lehman at Hanover Area.

Marywood University says its new Florence, Italy location is designed to offer students immersive coursework "integrated with the city’s history, culture and contemporary life."

Representatives from Corscale, developer of the Project Gravity Data Center in Archbald, joined a Scranton panel discussion at which they said final land development plans will be submitted…

Susquenhanna County officials hope new programs for formerly incarcerated people will rise on the site of the old county jail, which was in the final stages of demolition on Tuesday.

Meuser and Wallace won't debate at WVIA, but the Oct. 29 Bresnahan-Cognetti debate is set to proceed at the station with Krawczeniuk, Collins and Schertzer as panelists and Matisak as moderator.

Tour of historic mine sites in Luzerne County highlights work being done by a collaboration of partners to restore the region.

This week's Sports Voices includes a preview of the Jersey Shore and Shamokin football game, along with Penn State and Notre Dame football.

A developer wants to turn the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus into a golf course and event and conference center. The Penn State Board of Trustees finance committee is meeting Thursday morning to…

State police have charged Destin Petrides, 20, of Monroe County, with extorting a teen boy in Canada into mutilation and two suicide attempts.

Over 90 days, Harvard-based EmPower will study more than a dozen Lackawanna County proposed data center campuses and power plants.

U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, a Republican, and Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, a Democrat, will debate on WVIA-TV on Oct. 29. Both are vying for the 8th Congressional District seat.

The makers of skill games say they hope state lawmakers agree to regulate the machines by mid-October - bar and store owners will have to remove the machines soon if Harrisburg fails to act.

The musical tells the true story of how the residents of Gander cared for the stranded 'plane people' for nearly a week. It opens tonight at Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre.

Across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania, memories from Sept. 11, 2001 still feel raw. Today, we have the stories of people in our region whose lives changed that day.

Elizabeth Miller works for peace. Sean O'Shea guarded Saddam Hussein. Mark Volk saved lives at the Pentagon. The acts of terror on Sept. 11, 2001, forever altered lives in Northeast and Central…

Berwick native David Morris recalls working as a White House correspondent covering President George W. Bush's visit to a Florida elementary school on Sept. 11, 2001.

Coach Mark Ross readies Lackawanna College football for its first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference game. Also, more on Wyoming Valley West vs. West Scranton preview.

The Peace and Justice Center of Wilkes-Barre announced Thursday that WVIA’s President and CEO Carla McCabe is one of the organization’s 2026 Peace Award recipients, along with The Lands at Hillside…

WVIA News on Friday will publish special coverage of the lasting impact of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Troopers said the case started with Scranton Police investigating a burglary in which Christian Santiago allegedly stole a rifle from a relative's home. Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland said…

Pa. Immigration Coalition and Centre County Rapid Response Network say ICE agents arrested at least 42 since Sept. 2 in raids centered on the Geisinger Medical Center expansion project in Danville.

Action Together NEPA and a group of Luzerne County residents filed a request to review the petition seeking to repeal the county's anti-discrimination ordinance.

Republican U.S. Reps. Rob Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie and Sen. Dave McCormick are set to speak in Dallas. Rep. Madeleine Dean, meanwhile, will join other Democrats for a parallel counter event.

Dam rehabilitation work began today at Lackawanna State Park in Lackawanna County.

Luzerne County officials hosted a press conference Tuesday morning to discuss the uptick in the county’s overdose deaths, 12 of which have been connected to cocaine laced with fentanyl in the last…

Troopers said the case started with Scranton Police investigating a burglary in which Christian Santiago allegedly stole a rifle from a relative's home. Now they're investigating who fired the shot…