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The latest seven-day total of COVID-19 cases in Luzerne County increased by 99, and test positivity was 11.6%, down slightly from 11.8% over the previous seven-day period. Luzerne County’s daily average of COVID-19 hospitalizations over the seven days — Jan. 22 through Thursday — was 119.6, down from 130.6. The daily average of COVID-19 patients on ventilators was 10, up from 6.9, and the case total was 1,038, up from 937. Luzerne County remains in the substantial transmission ra...

Hanover Area and Greater Nanticoke Area school districts are moving ahead with plans for in-person learning to return.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture keeps records of food safety inspections at restaurants and food vendors. Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and Muhlenberg Township have their own inspectors and the rest of the county is inspected by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture inspectors. The results will be posted every other week. All food vendors are inspected at least once a year. Other inspections c...

American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more than 200 years ago said “Music is the universal language of mankind," and Harvard scientists in a recently published comprehensive scientific study on music supports Longfellow’s declaration. And, here in Gainesville, students at M.K. Rawlings Elementary Center for the Fine Arts recently connected with non-English speaking children through their participation in the International Concert Exchange for World Disability Day with students from India...