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After more than two decades, Google will finally lets user swap out their @gmail.com address — embarrassing handles and all.

Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker spoke with Bonnie's friends and family to learn more about her lasting impact on the city.

BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — People living in rural areas may not always have access to community resources that others do. That's why one library system gave itself some wheels to reach them. 28/22 News Reporter Colby Hughes spent the day with the traveling library and explained the impact it has on rural communities. The [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — There's been a string of break-ins across central Pennsylvania, and on Tuesday, police say one man is responsible. Investigators say 65-year-old Gerald Fleegle hit businesses in Lycoming and Clinton Counties over the last two years. They include a restaurant in Waterville, a laundromat in Jersey Shore, and a VFW in Lock Haven. Police [...]

What does one eat on a 10-day trip around the moon? Turns out, quite a bit.

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — April 1st's Luzerne County Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Commission meeting will now be open to the public, thanks to the urging of Councilwoman Denise Williams. “There was a concern that maybe that official action could be being taken during the meetings, during the commission meetings. What was being put [...]

STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Monroe County lawmaker warns a proposed road project could strip local wetlands of their protections and relocate them more than an hour away. Now, she's pushing a bill that would make sure those protections stay in the communities that actually lose them. For one woman who lives right above [...]

BEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Tens of thousands of dollars is now going to projects across northeastern PA thanks to the Greenlight Project Fund. It's all part of an announcement made on Tuesday by the Luzerne Foundation at Bear Creek Township Volunteer Hose Company. There they promised their first round of grants, including [...]

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A field of pinwheels is taking over Courthouse Square in Scranton. 655 pinwheels in all are now spinning in the wind outside the Lackawanna County Courthouse. Each one, a child: A child who needed help last year, and they got it thanks to the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC). The display [...]

The economic buzzword has been trending online over the past year and is used to illustrate a growing divide between high earners and people with lower incomes.