Dickson City

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler was in Dickson City Thursday. She toured Kriger Pipeline with Congressmen Rob Bresnahan and Dan Meuser.

Kelly Loeffler visited Kriger Pipeline in Dickson City alongside U.S. Reps. Rob Bresnahan and Dan Meuser.

State Sen. Rosemary Brown, and state Reps. Kyle Mullins and Kyle Donahue have either supported or sponsored legislation to regulate the data center industry in Pennsylvania.

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

NextGen Counseling received its state licensure in October 2025. The organization now welcomes children aged 12-19 for addiction counseling at its location on Dickson City’s Main Street.

Council met Thursday to vote on a zoning ordinance for data center placement in the borough. The board unanimously agreed to allow for data centers in the borough's manufacturing district. That move comes as a developer has been looking to build a data center in a residential/open space district off Business Route 6.

Officials said Thursday that the Dickson City hospital will reopen Friday morning, just over a week after last week’s fire destroyed its orthopedic institute.

Gov. Josh Shapiro thanked first responders for their work last week during the fire at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City. He said the hospital's emergency room is aiming to reopen by Friday.

Gov. Josh Shapiro thanked first responders at the Dickson City Fire Department for their work last week during the fire at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City and highlighted investments proposed in his annual budget to support the state’s fire departments.

State health officials will be working with Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City management on getting the fire-damaged facility ready to reopen but so far no date has been announced for that to happen.