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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.

The National Weather Service says precipitation is expected to taper off between 11 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. Monday morning, but more snow could fall across Northeast Pa. on Monday.

The home of "Data Center Alley" in Virginia is vastly different from Lackawanna County. That's what officials from Lackawanna County found when they took a trip to Loudoun County, Virginia.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials on Thursday reopened two major bridge projects to traffic in Lackawanna County.