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Community honors Damian Mele at a 3-on-3 basketball event raising funds for students and celebrating his memory.

DALLAS, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It's a big day for hunters who managed to bag any big game animal in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game Commission Northeast Region held a big game scoring session in Dallas on Saturday. It allowed hunters to bring in their game to be officially scored. Any whitetail deer, elk, or bears [...]

Newswatch 16's Valeria Quiñones was at Keystone College, where students are bringing an age-old practice to life, one drop of sap at a time.

PLYMOUTH, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Easter Bunny is getting a workout this weekend: Earlier in the day, it hopped into Plymouth for a free, community Easter breakfast at Faith Baptist Church. Families got to enjoy a meal, arts and crafts, and photos with the Bunny. The non-profit Youth Enrichment Project teamed up with the [...]

The road and bridges department, along with the county engineer, deemed the headwall of the bridge unsafe for traffic.

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Easter is still two weekends away, but some local communities are already getting in on the celebrating. Lots of treats were up for grabs on Saturday at the Parsons Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt in Wilkes-Barre. Kids took over the Wilkes-Barre Bears Football Field to scoop up all the candy [...]

The bacteria may cause serious infections in immunocompromised patients, including those with weakened immune responses.

SUNBURY — While cleaning out a safe at the Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1 last year, Company President Wes Stephens discovered a set of letters revealing that the fire company once owned a historic cannon, a pre-Revolutionary weapon that residents of several Susquehanna Valley towns spent nearly a century stealing from one another.

LEWISBURG — Marlee Tornez barely flinched when asked Friday if she wanted to perform a tracheotomy on a pig’s larynx.

Late March and early April always mark the confluence of the world’s highest-profile religions. Ramadan ended Friday, with Palm Sunday and Easter occurring over next two weekends. April 2 also marks the beginning of Passover.