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SUNBURY — The Shikellamy Braves High School baseball team will be led by Anthony Culp after a 7-1 vote Thursday night.

ENOLA — When Ashleigh Reedy struggled with hunger in school, she told a panel of Pennsylvania state lawmakers that she was given more access to psychiatric counseling and antidepressants to treat her issues than simply being fed.

LEWISBURG — Additional charges have been filed in Union County against a woman from Ohio who is part of a group from New York involved in a fraudulent check-stealing, washing and cashing scheme, according to Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department.

LEWISBURG — Nearly $700,000 in Union County’s affordable housing fund remains unused as officials grapple with high prices, limited inventory and program restrictions.

House Bill 2139, introduced this week by State Rep. Tina Pickett (R-10th), "would protect our farmers and the work they do...to provide us with high-quality meats."

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man was sentenced to three years in prison after the FBI found hundreds of child pornography files on his devices. Roland Dennett Rhodes III of Wilkes-Barre, 55, was charged and sentenced by the Department of Justice for receipt of child pornography. According to a release from the DOJ, FBI [...]

The city of Wilkes-Barre is seeing a rate hike, as the sewer fees are doubling.

Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker was on hand to honor Paul DeWitt for turning the calendar page on a century.

Tens of thousands of outage reports about the site flooded in Friday morning. Here's what we know.