Susquehanna County

The Northeast Regional Crisis Stabilization Center opened its walk-in service in December. Now, its crisis residential program is open and ready to serve the community with eight beds where people can stay for up to 10 days.

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.

Pennsylvania State Police say they ended an I-81 pursuit in Scranton which began earlier Tuesday morning in Broome County, New York, and have a suspect in custody. The driver’s car is now at the state police barracks in Dunmore.

Montrose Meteors head coach Tracie McComb is making history in Susquehanna County as the first woman to coach varsity boys basketball in the Lackawanna League.

Few women coach boys varsity basketball. Montrose head coach Tracie McComb — the first woman to do so in the Lackawanna League — focuses on growth and bringing her team together.

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

For the month of February, the public is invited to vote for their favorite French onion soup served by participating local restaurants. Twenty restaurants will take part in the first-ever Onion Cup.

The official America250PA County Kick-Off ceremonies will recognize each county's contributions to the nation's history and this year's semiquincentennial celebrations.

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.