Snyder County

Stop by the WVIA Studios at the Journey Bank Community Arts Center from 10 a.m. to noon today, Thursday, March 12, to meet members of the WVIA News Team and other WVIA personalities during Raise the Region 2026.

Según el Centro para las comunidades de parto de Pensilvania, 23 de los 67 condados de Pensilvania no cuentan con un hospital que ofrezca servicios de parto y alumbramiento y los 23 condados están clasificados por el Centro como comunidades rurales.

According to the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, nearly half of the state’s rural counties do not have hospitals with labor and delivery units. This reflects a nationwide trend of hospitals closing specialized service lines such as obstetrics.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on Monday announced an estimated $82 million investment in new state funding for more than 295 recreation and conservation projects across the state, including about $10 million for Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania.

A new Penn State study found a ‘hotspot’ of melanoma cases in central Pennsylvania, where there is a high amount of cultivated farmland.

Participants had five minutes to eat as many potato chips as they can at the annual Middleswarth Potato Chip Eating Contest in Luzerne County. Bloodied but unbowed winner Tristan Fry claimed his fourth victory this year.

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.

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

Geisinger's mobile mammogram bus will travel to several locations in Luzerne, Schuylkill and Snyder Counties this month.

There will be lots of booms and flashes of color in skies across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania this 4th of July.