The president of a college in Kentucky will become the next president of Wilkes University.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 locomotive arrived in Northeast Pennsylvania over the weekend, and Monday began public viewing days in Scranton for one of the most powerful steam engines ever built. Officials estimate that 30,000 people stopped by the Steamtown National Historic Site for the first day.

Steamtown National Historic site will host a two-day reunion of two historic Big Boy railroad engines starting this morning. The city is expecting thousands of visitors for the event.

The world's largest operating steam locomotive is scheduled to arrive in Northeastern Pennsylvania this weekend. The Big Boy is expected to bring crowds and a boost for the local economy.

Local training programs help runners accomplish their goals, big and small. As runners begin training for the Steamtown Marathon in October, they share why they love the sport amid a rise in registrations for the race.

An ICE detainee says he was put in solitary confinement and transferred out of state in retaliation for speaking out about conditions. The alleged retaliation came after a protest at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center, ICE’s largest immigrant detention facility in the northeast United States.

The Arc Angels program will present “Not Just Another Mermaid Tale,” which is based loosely on “The Little Mermaid,” on Thursday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lackawanna College theater.

U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan said Friday he plans to fight proposed federal Medicaid rules that advocates say may jeopardize treatment for cancer, HIV and other serious illnesses.

Students at West Scranton High School now have a place to grieve classmates gone too soon, like Rose Hernandez, who would have graduated this year.

The state Department of Human Services downgraded the Wayne County Children & Youth Services agency's license after finding many record-keeping deficiencies including some related to a child's death. And learn more about a street medicine mobile clinic in Scranton.