Poconos

When Rebecca Smith bought her home in the Poconos, she’d thought she found the perfect place to spend time with her grandchildren and soak in the outdoors. Now, she says a 702,000 square foot warehouse threatens to take her dream away.

Congressman Rob Bresnahan hosted the roundtable with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, state and local elected officials and stakeholders at The Swiftwater hotel.

Northeast Pennsylvania boasts several presidential connections beyond being the birthplace of a U.S. president.

Governor Josh Shapiro proposed in his recent budget address adding the Glen Onoko Fall Trails in Carbon County to the Lehigh Gorge State Park. The Pennsylvania Game Commission closed the popular, but dangerous trail near Jim Thorpe in 2019 because of the number of accidents there.

Three rivers. One award. Voting is now open for Pennsylvania River of the Year. The Delaware River, which flows through the Poconos in Northeast Pennsylvania, is up against Perkiomen Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River, located northwest of Philadelphia; and the Youghiogheny River in Southwestern Pa.

The Nature Conservancy Hauser Nature Center and Long Pond Preserve in the Poconos search for the butterflies to document them for the Monarch Watch Program.

The highway has remained closed since heavy rains led to a December 2022 rockslide along Mount Minsi. U.S. Rep. Cartwright brought agencies to the table to break impasse.

Pocono Spartans Elite hosted its first girl's flag football clinic in the hopes of starting a team and encouraging area schools to do the same. Flag football will debut as an Olympic sport in 2028, and the PIAA is in the process of sanctioning it as a high school sport.

A newly launched Sports, Entertainment and Film Commission aims to bring Hollywood to the Pocono Mountains.

The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau will soon roll out a new resource for people living and working in the region. A free virtual course will be available to the public this summer.