Columbia County

BERWICK, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Should transgender student athletes be allowed to compete on the sports team of the gender they identify as?

One local school board recently voted on a policy that may make this hot-button issue clearer.

The Berwick Area School District now has specific guidelines for male and female sports and who can play on what teams.

A local advocacy group says the new rules are ant-lgbtq, but the superintendent says the policy is simply a checklist to keep all students safe.

BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police have charged a fourth person related to a shooting in Bloomsburg from the beginning of October.

Police say they used geo-location data from Snapchat to put Elliot Foster D. Wample, 17, of Berwick, at the scene of a shooting in Bloomsburg on October 4.

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Hundreds of people...

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COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Multiple units were dispatched after a brush fire in Columbia County Friday afternoon.

Columbia County Emergency Management state there was an ongoing brush fire at the intersection of Beaver Valley Road and Mountain Road just after 4:30 p.m.

According to Main Township Volunteer Fire Company, when on-scene crews observed a large brush fire at the top of the mountain, and immediately requested four brush trucks and three tankers.

BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man was arrested after police say they found pounds of weed growing in his basement.

In July 2024, the Bloomsburg Police Department was called to the 800 block of Railroad Street to help Columbia County Adult Probation officers.

While probation officers were checking on a person, they said marijuana was discovered growing in the basement of the house. Police say they learned 33-year-old Isiah Blackman was growing marijuana inside the home.

Man sentenced for luring, exposing himself to child

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BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The clock is ticking down the final hours on one of the most hotly-contested US Senate races.

The race for that seat in Pennsylvania is considered a dead heat, and on Sunday, the Republican Nominee held a rally in the town where he attended high school.

28/22 News was there for what was billed as Dave McCormick's hometown hero rally.

McCormick returned to his alma mater Bloomsburg Area High School on Sunday to try and pin down his home crowd.