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SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania American Water announced that Green Ridge Street in Scranton will be closed next week due to a water main relocation.

Beginning Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11, Green Ridge Street between Albright Avenue and Ross Street will be closed. The following week, there will be single lane closures from Monday, April 14, until Friday, April 18, on Green Ridge Street.

The road will remain closed outside of work hours.

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Opening day of trout season this Saturday

MIFFLINBURG — The Herr Memorial Library in Mifflinburg introduced at least 20 new items to enhance its baby and toddler programs through the Play & Grow Libraries grant.

LIGHTSTREET -- The chairman of the Columbia County commissioners says money from the hotel tax should be used to...

CATAWISSA -- Police here accuse a mother of plying her teenage son with White Claw hard seltzers until he was drunk,...

BLOOMSBURG -- One of two men arrested in a predawn drug raid here last week waived all charges onto Columbia County...

BERWICK -- An Army recruit was arrested after police say he threatened to kill his wife and other occupants of the...

STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A community gathered tonight to bring awareness to the problem of sexual assault.

People came together at courthouse square in Monroe County tonight for their annual take back the night march.

Monroe County asks residents to weigh in on disaster plans

For 30 years this march has been bringing awareness to the problem of sexual assault and how to help with support for survivors, of prevention, as well as knowing how to effectively intervene.

FALLS, WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— More federal budget cuts are on the way, this time, impacting the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

These cuts will do away with two pandemic-era programs which provided a billion dollars worth of funding to schools and food banks to purchase their food from local farms.

28/22 News Reporter Avery Nape met with a local farmer to find out how these cuts will be affecting business going forward.

Bedbugs discovered at Carbondale Area High School

LEWISBURG — Hundreds of antique items at the former Slifer House Museum are listed for sale during an auction on May 16.

NEW BERLIN — Students from the SUN Area Technical Institute are thrilled with how a 30-year-old piece of Sunbury history was restored at their facility.