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All restrictions have been removed on Clemson, Sweigarts and Hoovers Islands in the Susquehanna River as of Tuesday, April 22 ...

A Lancaster County woman was found dead in the Susquehanna River over the weekend, days after she’d last had contact with family or friends, authorities said. April Wefler, 33, of Lancaster, was found ...

State Senator Lisa Boscola, who represents the Lehigh Valley, plans to introduce legislation to designate PEEPS as the official state candy. The Just Born company in Bethlehem has been producing the ...

Jay Costa, the state Senate's top Democrat, says the counties surrounding Allegheny could unite to create a Southwestern ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Tuesday that three Susquehanna River islands formerly ...

Looking around Pennsylvania’s waterways, one might expect to see crystal-clear water bubbling through verdant lands, but that ...

Outside of its famed cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has many picturesque places, with two of them in ...

Harvard University has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after recently announcing it ...

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for parts of Western Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service has issued a severe ...

We’re now starting to see showers arrive in some of our western counties as of 5pm. Expect most of the most populated areas ...