Schuylkill County

In this week's Sports Voices, FOX56's Bob Ide reflects on Wyoming Area graduate Dom DeLuca's football career at Penn State, begins his look at 2025's top local sports stories and more.

Boilo is a spiced, citrus-filled whiskey drink typically served warm during the winter holidays. It’s a Schuylkill County staple inspired by the Lithuanian liqueur Krupnikas.

Traffic appears to be light in many parts of Northeast Pennsylvania and surrounding areas as the season's first significant winter storm continues to drop snow on the region.Predictions of ongoing snow mean the afternoon commute could be hazardous in many areas.

Geisinger Life Flight 3, based at the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton International Airport, or AVP, recently celebrated one year at its new hangar, built from the ground up with COVID-19 grants. The team works with Geisinger’s other Life Flight bases across the region to transport more than 400 patients each month by ground and through air.

PennEnvironment representatives visited Hawk Mountain Sanctuary to discuss the need for a cohesive statewide plan for wildlife corridors to protect natural habitats and prevent wildlife from being killed on the road.

Temple University’s dental school, in partnership with the Tamaqua Area Community Partnership, located a site on Center Street for a proposed rural dentistry campus, which is set to open for students in time for the Fall 2026 semester.

In this story, you can find the results of contested countywide races and county judicial retention elections plus links to all county municipal election websites, where you can find the results of races for magisterial district judge, borough council, township supervisor, school director and, in a few cases, mayor.

Penn State Schuylkill survived. Now it’s time to thrive. That was the message from more than a dozen speakers on Monday, as Schuylkill County state legislators hosted a discussion about how the campus can expand.

Races for Scranton mayor, Lackawanna County commissioner, Luzerne County Council and judges top the Nov. 4 election ballot in region.

Food banks and pantries are relying on community support more than ever, with the state budget impasse delaying the distribution of funds, federal aid reduced by the Trump administration and the effects of the federal government shutdown.