WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The heavy rain that came through Pennsylvania caused flooding in Luzerne County ...

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A locally owned grocery store is forced to close one of its two locations until ...

Volunteers were called to join in the sandbagging efforts to raise the flood protection levels but to no avail. The Susquehanna river levee was topped at 11 a.m. at 38.5 feet on Friday June 23, 1972.

FORTY FORT — The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority is not ... Also, Delaney — who is chief of the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department — said the authority should do more to make the public ...

The city’s most severe blow came in 1972, when Hurricane Agnes caused the Susquehanna to overflow, flooding Wilkes-Barre’s downtown in 9 feet of water and damaging or destroying 25,000 homes ...

The National Weather Service predicts overnight low temperatures of around zero from Monday through Wednesday in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton region, weather service meteorologist Bryan Greenblatt ...

WILKES-BARRE — Local legislators on Tuesday announced hundreds ... Dane Watro (R-Hazleton) all announced grants for projects that address flood mitigation, recreation and the environment. “These ...

At a time when nearby Bradford County has been slashing the county library budget and the Susquehanna County Library has become embroiled in controversy some deem political, we were downright thrilled ...

Barre, just published his first book. In Jan. 2025, he released his memoir about his Uncle Ted’s store in The Heights, ...

Lackawanna and Luzerne counties received more than $700,000 in state grants for flood mitigation, recreation and environmental projects. Sen. Marty Flynn, D-22, Dunmore, announced the $736,585 in Act ...

Woolworth. It is an example of the then popular “Beaux-Arts” style of architecture in the United States, and is one of the few buildings remaining in Wilkes Barre to retain this style. Wilkes college ...