Luzerne County

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 [...]

LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The victim who was thrown from a vehicle during an Interstate 81 pile-up earlier this week has been identified. 64-year-old Freeman Gladd from Blakeslee was killed during an I-81 pile-up crash after he was thrown from a vehicle, according to the Luzerne County coroner. The crash happened on November 17 around 6:00 a.m., [...]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Luzerne County Coroner has identified the driver killed after crashing into a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon. 57-year-old Annette Kostelnick from Wilkes-Barre died after the vehicle she was driving crashed into a tractor-trailer in Wilkes-Barre on November 20. Officers were called to the 700 block of North Pennsylvania Avenue for a [...]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Roads will be heavily congested Saturday for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra shows at Mohegan Arena. The Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department issued a traffic advisory for people to expect significant congestion between 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday, November 22 in the vicinity of Mohegan Arena. [...]