LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Mourners are pausing to remember a legendary trumpeter from northeastern Pennsylvania who performed for eight decades. A memorial service was held on Saturday for Bobby Baird, who just two years ago was inducted into the Luzerne County Arts and Entertainment Hall of Fame. "I am humbled, I am honored to receive [...]
HAZLETON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Officials say firefighters reported to a fire in Hazleton on Saturday afternoon, where they say five tractor-trailers were ablaze. Hazleton City Fire was called to North Conahan Drive just before 2:15 p.m., where they say crews immediately placed another engine company into service. The Hazleton Fire Department says they were [...]
Flames broke out around 2 p.m. Saturday along North Conahan Drive.
The Luzerne County Coroner's Office, along with Wilkes-Barre Police, were on the scene of a crash along North Pennsylvania Avenue Thursday afternoon.
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A local podcasting group gets busy with friends and family to prepare and cook Thanksgiving dinner for hundreds of people. 28/22 News reporter Heidi Martens rolled up her sleeves and stopped by the kitchen to check out the effort. For their fourth annual Thanksgiving food drive, the Go-Getters are back in the [...]
Newswatch 16's Valeria Quiñones was there for all of the fun, where a sense of community is the most important part.
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— It's Christmas time once again inside the Luzerne County Courthouse. This year's tree is a 21-foot concolor fir that has grown at Helen and Ed's Tree Farm in Wapwallopen for the past 26 years. Per tradition, the tree was placed in the courthouse rotunda, where county employees will now begin decorating it [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— In Wilkes-Barre, the annual giant Christmas tree was set up between the Osterhout Free Library and the Westmoreland Club. The tree has shone bright for decades across the street from our 28/22 News studio. Crews will now begin placing thousands of lights on the pine and top it off with a giant [...]
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The mayor's office says the completion of the Horton Street Project, an effort to fix two sinkholes, is now rescheduled. Previously scheduled to reopen Friday, November 21, officials say the new expected opening date is Wednesday, November 26. Officials say the rescheduling is due to issues with the contractor's equipment. [...]
KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County man faces decades in prison after pleading "no contest" to third degree murder. Prosecutors say Walter Zolner III, 33 bludgeoned to death 22-year-old Ryan Padovani in his Bennett Street, Kingston home in 2023. Zolner lived next to Padovani in the duplex home. At the time, Zolner claimed [...]
