Luzerne County

A dunk tank was set up outside the Mohegan Arena, where folks could attempt to dunk state troopers.

SUGARLOAF TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County giving back to the community for Christmas. SJM Auto Sales and Repair held its annual Toys for Tots day Saturday afternoon along Route 93 in Sugarloaf Township. The business brought out Santa and his reindeer to the site that features a 60-foot tree that went up [...]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Millions of people with billion-dollar dreams are expected to get tickets for Saturday night's Powerball game. Lottery machines are humming, printing out those tickets at places like Anthracite Newsstand in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Saturday night's jackpot is an estimated $1,000,000,000 with a cash value of nearly $457,000,000. The jackpot is the [...]

DRUMS, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Hazleton area is one of many communities nationwide pausing to honor and remember our fallen heroes on Saturday. Saint Jude Knights of the Columbus Council of Mountain Top invited the community to Calvary Cemetery on Route 309 in Drums to lay wreaths at veteran gravesites. It's all part of [...]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A problem-plagued road in Wilkes-Barre is finally open for good. The city fully reopened Horton Street on Friday. Part of the road had been closed since June after two sinkholes opened up. The road briefly reopened for Thanksgiving but had to close again after the holiday so crews could replace a [...]

Newswatch 16's Valeria Quiñones shows us how workers and customers alike are celebrating.

The street is back open more than five months after a sinkhole opened up.

HANOVER TWP., LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The SPCA of Luzerne County is investigating an animal abandonment incident where a cat and her kittens were left in the snow. According to officials at the SPCA, a woman driving a white minivan was seen abandoning a mother cat and four kittens, around 7 weeks old, in the [...]

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— The holiday season is often a time when adoptions surge at animal shelters, but experts say before you bring home that pet, make sure you are ready for the commitment that goes with it. 28/22 News Reporter Joe Mason takes a closer look. Now that the holiday season is in [...]

State police have announced several more arrests in the shooting that left an 18-year-old dead and injured a 15-year-old.