Carbon County

Según el Centro para las comunidades de parto de Pensilvania, 23 de los 67 condados de Pensilvania no cuentan con un hospital que ofrezca servicios de parto y alumbramiento y los 23 condados están clasificados por el Centro como comunidades rurales.

According to the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, nearly half of the state’s rural counties do not have hospitals with labor and delivery units. This reflects a nationwide trend of hospitals closing specialized service lines such as obstetrics.

Penn Forest Twp. now has protections in place to regulate data centers. Supervisors unanimously amended its zoning ordinance during a meeting Monday.

Supervisors added an amendment to the township's zoning ordinance during a regular meeting Monday.

This week, WVIA's Sarah Scinto and Haley O'Brien discuss the subject of the latest Plant People feature - a farm in Carbon County that has become the largest indoor producer of lettuce in the world.

Penn Forest Twp. held a hearing to discuss an amendment to its zoning ordinance that would allow for data center development in the municipality.

Most lettuce sold at grocery stores along the east coast come from the largest indoor lettuce-growing facility in the world - Little Leaf Farms in Banks Twp., Carbon County.

Little Leaf Farms built 4 ten-acre greenhouses in Carbon County, making it the largest indoor producer of lettuce in the world, the company says.

The official America250PA County Kick-Off ceremonies will recognize each county's contributions to the nation's history and this year's semiquincentennial celebrations.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on Monday announced an estimated $82 million investment in new state funding for more than 295 recreation and conservation projects across the state, including about $10 million for Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania.