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Domestic Violence Service Center, Inc. provides emergency shelter and resources for survivors of domestic violence from Luzerne and Carbon Counties.

Follow along each day at WVIA.org as we publish '2025 Year in Review,' a week-long series recounting the top stories of the past year through New Year's Day. Today, check out the top news stories from some of the rural communities in our region.

Tensions ran high during a recent third hearing over a proposal for a YMCA and Agricultural Innovation Center held before the Cherry Ridge Township Supervisors.

ICE took restaurant owner Nasario Damian Contreras, a native of Mexico, into custody last Tuesday outside Isabella's Restaurant in Jefferson Twp., part of the North Pocono region in Lackawanna County.

At the end of a four-hour meeting Thursday night, Covington Twp. supervisors approved an ordinance change to allow data centers in the rural Lackawanna County community.

Hazleton and Luzerne County Police say Jessica Lockwood’s blood was found at defendant Terence Ray’s house in Hazleton following a Percocet drug deal gone wrong.

More than 200 volunteers, from youth groups to the state’s first Black lieutenant governor, crafted fringe blankets and donated food for Blankets & Broth on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Friedman Jewish Community Center in Luzerne County.

Saturday marked the third 'No Kings' rally to protest the Trump Administration.

Aviation is literally soaring in the U.S., with record passenger numbers. But with a generation of mechanics set to leave the workforce, the industry needs new graduates to fill the gap.

Swifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times. Now one Israeli paraglider is trying to save them.