As the WVIA News Team welcomes 2025, we will continue to meet people where they are, sharing stories about our communities. For now, read on as we take a look back at the most-read stories from 2024.
From election-related news to struggling colleges and hospitals, to crime and pop culture, these were the stories that most captivated WVIA's online audiences.
Most-read:
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses absentee ballot case
- Knoebels adds dozens of new menu items for 98th season
- Accrediting agency tells Keystone College to plan to help students in case closure is necessary
- More miles will be added to Northeastern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia connection
- Faces of the rally: Speaking with supporters at Trump's Wilkes-Barre Township event
- Scranton native Quinn Hemphill gets 'big break' role in new 'Bad Boys' movie
- Commonwealth Health eyes $120M sale of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre hospitals to nonprofit WoodBridge
- Nine suspected Crips gang members arrested for drug-trafficking operation in Scranton
- No phone call or text is worth a life': New law puts distracted driving in focus in Pennsylvania
- ACLU sues Luzerne County over removal of mail ballot drop boxes
- Expect road closures during President Biden's visit
- Monroe County’s economic development lawsuit will decide the future of the Poconos
- New owners of Ritz Theater in Scranton ‘opening our doors to everyone’ with $1 movie series
- Election shocker: Walsh upsets Cabell in state 117th House District race
- It’s maddening’: Clinton Twp. residents say they’re driven from their homes by a quarry
- Luzerne County flips to red as GOP takes voter registration lead
- Business booms for Scranton restaurant owner on FOX’s "Next Level Chef" with Gordon Ramsay
- 'We don't have much time': Elected leaders concerned about fate of CHS hospitals in NEPA
- Updated: Grief, gratitude at Clarks Summit University as school announces closure
- Jury awards former Bloomsburg University dean $3.9M verdict in whistleblower termination case
- Wilkes-Barre abuzz with supporters, demonstrators ahead of Kamala Harris rally
- Trusting God,' furloughed employees guide Clarks Summit University through financial crisis
- Trump rips Harris as too radical, ridicules her looks and laugh at Luzerne County rally
- Wilkes-Barre torture death home at center of complex allegations
- 'Scranton' firefighters for Trump? Union president didn't recognize men holding signs at rally.
- Everything becomes a little bit less stable': native Pennsylvania trees battle two diseases
- Lackawanna County suspends staffer for inappropriate comment after Trump assassination attempt
- Commonwealth Health plan to sell Scranton, Wilkes-Barre hospitals dies after funding falls through
- Kingston PD, Luzerne County DA announce over a dozen arrests in ongoing narcotics probe
- Authorities identify shooting victim, alleged gang members named as suspects
- Scranton Eagles documentary kicks off to crowd of former players
- Video surveillance leads to arrest of Dunmore woman in death of fellow school custodian, 81
- Former Scranton Mayor Jim Connors dies suddenly at age 77
- Keystone College again faces loss of accreditation and possibility of closure; school plans to appeal
- RECIPES OF THE REGION: Coal Region woman shares secret for haluski recipe with Pa. Dutch twist
- Suspect charged in shooting of Scranton officer
- Five arrested after woman tortured, killed in Wilkes-Barre home
- Renovations and progress: New Scranton superintendent wants to put up walls, and take them down
- 'Incredibly kind' Loyalty Barber Shop owner remembered for 'twist of modern culture'
- 'Worth saving:' Restoration of Tunkhannock home sparks memories, community interest
- Residents fight ‘greedy’ Poconos warehouse expansion
- Dallas artist and skater recalled for "giving back long before he died"
- 20 Years Later: “The Office” still connected to real Scranton
- Eviction looms for homeless camp near levee in Edwardsville
- Newton Township solar project faces legal, zoning hurdles
- Prisoner of addiction: Luzerne County inmate suffers through recovery without methadone
- Going for gold: Benton community rallies behind local Olympian
- Canton Borough Council rebuilds after mass resignations
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