Vice President JD Vance was in Lehigh County yesterday talking about the economy. And a new program helps drivers with autism interact safely with police.

Pike has been Pennsylvania’s only county without a hospital or a primary care center. That changed on Monday. Northwell Health unveiled its new primary and immediate care center in Dingmans Ferry, which will be open to residents and visitors in January.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, or UPMC, started a rural residency program two years ago to bolster the rural doctor workforce. Residents start at UPMC Williamsport before transferring to either UPMC Wellsboro in Tioga county or its Cole location in western Pennsylvania.

Penn State faculty hoping to unionize across the university said Tuesday they filed the paperwork and signatures needed for a vote. And authorities have publicly identified the victims of a machete attack at a downtown Scranton apartment building earlier this week.

As snow fell and a biting cold settled over Wilkes-Barre last week, Pastor Sam Garnett opened the doors of Calvary Bible Church to anyone needing a warm place to sleep. In Scranton, Catholic Social Services did the same at Weston Field. Both cities have found new partners for the Code Blue Emergency shelter program that was previously run by Keystone Mission.

In his 90-minute speech in Monroe County, Trump mocked Democrats’ claims over a so-called affordability crisis and said he hopes Democrats focus on trans rights, immigration policies and religious concerns instead of economic issues.

Penn State football has a new head coach - Matt Campbell was introduced at an emotional press conference Monday afternoon. And as President Donald Trump heads for Monroe County Tuesday night, there may be traffic delays in the area.

Mehmet Oz joined U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Scranton Friday to discuss health care, and the Rural Health Transformation Fund, a provision in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill that will give $50 billion to states over five years.

President Donald Trump will visit Northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the first time since his election last year, a White House official confirmed Thursday.

Michael Mullins died from ALS in 2022. Motivated by the loss of his father, state Rep. Kyle Mullins helped secure $5 million in the state budget to study diseases like ALS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.