Department of Homeland Security

Air travelers with flights arriving or departing from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport were being advised to check with their airlines' websites for flight status amid Friday's nationwide ground stop.

ICE is giving up on its plan to use warehouses in Schuylkill and Berks counties as detention centers. It withdrew its appeal of a Pa. DEP order preventing the use of local drinking water and a local sewage system until ICE proved it could meet state laws on safe drinking water and sewage disposal.

For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation and Wooldloch Resort have teamed up on a cancer respite center set to open on Woodloch's Pike County property in the fall of 2027.

The federal government has made a definitive decision on whether to go ahead with its proposed immigration detention centers in Schuylkill and Berks counties. Congressman Dan Meuser got confirmation on Friday.

U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser said Friday his office learned directly from the Department of Homeland Security that the department won't open immigration detention centers in Schuylkill and Berks counties.

The New York Times is reporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is dropping plans for immigration centers in Schuylkill, Berks counties and five other locations.

INMIGRACIÓN: Un informe especial en cinco partes

IMMIGRATION: So far, 88 Pennsylvania law enforcement agencies have sign 287(g) agreements allowing them to help ICE enforce federal immigration laws.

With the partial federal shutdown delaying paychecks of the agents at its security checkpoints, the local airport tried to help. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport held a food drive for the TSA agents.

A deed filed Monday at the Schuylkill County courthouse shows the Department of Homeland Security bought the former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Twp. for more than $119.5 million in January. Evidence points to plans to use the 1.3-million-square-foot building to house immigrant detainees.