PennDOT

The bridge, about 50 years old, carries 4,500 vehicles a day and 'is past its useful life,' PennDOT spokeswoman Elizabeth Fabri said.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials are "strongly advising" Northeast Pennsylvania commuters to avoid Interstate 81 this week due to multiple construction projects in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.

PennDOT District 4 has significant work planned on Interstate 81 north and south this week at numerous locations in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.

Officials with a Monroe County-based animal rehab center are looking to re-house hundreds of pigeons rescued from a Wilkes-Barre home this week.

The 67 new construction projects planned in Northeast Pennsylvania this year come on top of 81 projects will continue in 2026 in Dunmore-based PennDOT Region 4.

The unique sounds of bagpipes are hard to miss this time of year with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations happening around the region. But the Greater Scranton Black Diamonds pipe band had to cancel appearances last year after their bus crashed traveling home from a parade in the Poconos. This year, they’re back on the streets.

PennDOT plans a $126 million upgrade of the road surfaces, ramps and bridges around where interstates 84/380 and 81 meet over the next five years.

State and federal transportation officials hosted a webinar Thursday to about the development of a service plan for Amtrak's proposed Scranton-to-New York City passenger train. Officials heard lots of questions, but said many answers will have to wait until the study is closer to finished in 2028.

Just days after receiving state approval, Tenor Health Foundation and Commonwealth Health closed a deal selling Tenor three Northeast Pennsylvania hospitals, both companies announced Monday morning.

PennDOT has named Jonathan A. Eboli, a Lackawanna County native with extensive transportation engineering experience, to lead the agency's Dunmore-based District 4.