Tunkhannock

This weekend’s events offer an opportunity to tour Jim Thorpe’s historic architecture, run through a Luzerne County cemetery to support its upkeep, and celebrate Italian heritage in Old Forge.

September is National Recovery Month, and members of Wyoming/ Sullivan Counties’ treatment court celebrated a milestone in their recoveries during their graduation Thursday evening in Tunkhannock.

Events this weekend include Pittston’s annual celebration of the red juicy fruit thought of as a vegetable, an arts festival in Bloomsburg and a 5K at a winery in the Poconos.

Gov. Josh Shapiro weighs in on legislation that would ban transgender girls and women from publicly funded sports teams, but does not say if he would veto the bill. And, Food Dignity, a local nonprofit, applied for a USDA grant to support farming infrastructure in the region.

Food Dignity, a local nonprofit, applied for a USDA grant to support farming infrastructure in the region.

Comcast partnered with Outreach in Scranton to give away 35 laptops this week. New manufacturing jobs are on the way for Lycoming County, and make some weekend plans with Haley's Happy Hour.

An arts festival in State College, a barn concert in Wyoming County and a plant sale in the Poconos, and it's all happening this weekend in our region.

The Electric City Flower Show is Saturday in Scranton and NEPA Pridefest will begin with a parade in Wilkes-Barre Sunday.

Today, we’ll catch up with WVIA Bilingual reporter Robert Collado on the closing of a South Scranton church. And Pennsylvania's Health Secretary criticizes potential cuts to Medicaid.

Secretary Debra Bogen of the State Department of Health championed the Wyoming County State Health Center’s reopening in downtown Tunkhannock.