Petitioners seeking to repeal Luzerne County's anti-discrimination ordinance or put it to a referendum submitted more than 15,000 signatures on Monday, organizer Walter Griffith said.

What secrets live beneath Hazleton? That’s a question WVIA producer, director, and editor Tim Novotney has been digging into for more than a year. His documentary “The Secrets Beneath Hazleton” debuts on WVIA-TV next month. He joins WVIA's Sarah Scinto in the podcast studio to discuss the film and the impact it's already had in Hazleton.

Rev. Joseph G. Marina, president of The University of Scranton, recently met Pope Leo XIV as part of the 2026 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Presidents' pilgrimage to Rome.

Libraries around the region are holding their own summer reading challenges and programs, and this week we wanted to see if this year’s summer readers are as ravenous as we remember.

The 22nd annual Plymouth Alive Kielbasa Festival kicked off Friday with an opening ceremony celebrating the nation and the borough. It continues Saturday with more than 100 food and craft vendors and live entertainment.

Election boards in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will soon vote on approving stock trade ban voter questions for the Nov. 3 election ballot.

Lackawanna County residents lined up to plead with commissioners to fund a study that would analyze the air-quality and health impacts of the data center industry. The commissioners are on board to do a study, but squabbled over the cost of it, who would do it and what it would accomplish.

Sarah and Bob are in the WVIA podcast studio this week, and Wyoming Area graduate Dom DeLuca is at training camp with the Baltimore Ravens. They also talk about Little League baseball, the start of high school football camps and more.

The Scranton Jazz Festival will run Friday through Sunday, mostly in downtown Scranton, featuring headliners Dirty Dozen Brass Band and legendary bassist Ron Carter.

A fire in Shavertown Wednesday morning left one man dead, marking Luzerne County’s third fatal house fire in four days.