Allentown News

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, Bethlehem, needs volunteers to make phone calls inviting Lehigh Valley corporations/employees to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Kickoff Breakfast.

Owner Posocco Equities successfully petitioned the South Whitehall Planning Commission Thursday to rezone 11 of the 40-acre development to allow higher density housing.

The Allentown School District is right now faced with what has been termed a budgetary issue, but seems more like a question about vision - how will the district support its students in attaining the finest possible education now and in the decades to come? At this critical moment, leaders in the district have an opportunity to invest in teachers ... (more)

Cynthia Mota was visiting family in Venezuela last month when she came down with the shingles.

The Lehigh Valley Labor Council is slamming a recent court decision that says workplaces no longer have to display union education posters.

Whoever becomes Easton's next district judge will likely spend a lot of time dealing with unpaid parking tickets.

Upper Macungie fire officials said a tractor trailer carrying pallets of vehicle batteries caught on fire late Thursday night at Millard Refrigerated Services , located at 7132 Ruppsville Road in Allentown.

In one of the most contested races in the May 21 primary, four Republican candidates are seeking their party's nomination for a Lehigh County Commissioner seat in District 5. On the Democratic side, two candidates are seeking their party's nod for the seat.

A 3-year-old who almost drowned in the Jordan Creek is alive thanks to two Good Samaritans and a police officer.

A former Best Western hotel manager had a harrasment citation formally dropped Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Michael Faulkner after the alleged victim failed to file charges.

If you want to stop head-on collisions on Allentown's Basin Street, install concrete median barriers, argues City Council vice president Ray O'Connell. "Concrete barriers stop cars," declared O'Connell at Wednesday night's City Council meeting.

An intoxicated Orefield woman was arrested Tuesday night after causing a ruckus and resisting arrest in the Holiday Inn in center-city Allentown.

Two incumbent Bethlehem city councilmen-Bob Donchez and J. William Reynolds-are seeking the Democratic Party nomination to be the city's next mayor.

It is one of nine dams the conservancy intends to remove this summer from the Little Lehigh and Jordan creeks, to improve the aquatic health of both streams.

Cyclists all over the world and in our area are coming together to honor those who have been hurt or killed while riding on the roads.

The parents of a young Pennsylvania girl sexually molested by a neighbor are facing a setback in their legal effort to force the man to buy their house.

Mariams Restaurant in Allentown expands the Lehigh Valley's culinary diversity. The ethnic eatery, which opened in February, serves up exotic-sounding Ethiopian fare such as "doro wot" that might just be described as African comfort food.

The current chief, Roger MacLean, will retire at the end of the year, along with several other high-ranking officers.

In honor of Older Americans Month, some people from the Lehigh Valley are being recognized for their dedication to enhancing the lives of others.

A concert of popular Disney Channel actors and singers scheduled early next month at Allentown's Crocodile Rock CafA© has lost its headliner.