Lehigh County News

Lowhill supervisors voted to deny the table plan for a warehouse at 2766 Route 100. The warehouse would be about 312,000 square feet on 43 acres.

The bill, spearheaded by state Rep. Mike Schlossberg, would dedicate American Rescue Plan money to training mental health care providers, creating more suicide prevention programs and supporting specialty courts.

South Whitehall has a new policy that outlines the process for implementing speed reduction measures in the township.

Smoke blanketed the Lehigh Valley area for a second straight day on Wednesday. Light scattering from particles in the smoke turned the sky a fiery orange in some areas.

State House Democrats approved adding $1.7 billion more education spending, including more money to the poorest districts. The final budget will be negotiated with Senate leaders and the governor's office.

Sedaris talked about his writing process, family life, time living abroad and fielded many questions from the audience after reading excerpts from yet to be published essays at the sold-out event at The End.

North Whitehall supervisors granted preliminary/final approval to the plan for housing development Greenleaf Fields at Parkland.

Andrew Joseph Tokach was part of Company D, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division when it led the assault on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

Those hitting the public pools in Allentown should do so safety says the city’s special events coordinator. Officials there want pool patrons to keep a few things in mind this summer season.

IronPigs Charities presented a $7,800 check to the Emerald Playground Association to help subsidize cost of field upgrades and installation of lights to ballfields.

This classroom disguised as a restaurant is an innovative space for students to create gourmet meals

Missed any of our election coverage? Here is a convenient way to scan the stories on local and statewide races that affect you today. From the gubernatorial race to the U.S. Senate race to the race for Pa.-7 and more, take a look so you don't miss anything.

With Election Day nearly upon us, our reporters fanned out across the region to find out where folks stood on issues that have defined American politics. This is what they heard.

The Pa. Supreme Court has ruled that mail-in ballots that are missing a date or have a date written incorrectly will need to be set aside by county election boards.

Lehigh Valley voters will help decide some of the nation's most closely-watched contests — Fetterman vs. Oz and Wild vs. Scheller. Here's a look up and down the ballots.

Abortion is a key reason many people will be casting a ballot in the midterm election. People in Bethlehem talk about why they feel so strongly about the issue.

A look at the candidates vying for the newly redistricted 22nd District in the state's House of Representatives.

The very fate of the event – now in its 26th year – gave way to speculative fiction earlier this year. Rumors swirled, as they often do, following media reports and social media posts in September that Lights in the Parkway could end. Not so, says the City of Allentown.

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman thanked canvassers in Whitehall Township as they worked to turn out voters in the closely contested with Mehmet Oz for U.S. Senate.

The attorney general will stop at a teamsters' hall.

Lehigh County's election drop boxes were the focus of a case that could have reverberated throughout the state, and may have had ramifications over how the rest of Pennsylvania handles election drop boxes. This is a deeper look at what happened in the courtroom during that hearing.

The 77-year-old motorist received two citations and will not face serious criminal charges in the death of teacher's aide Angela Yowakim, the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office said.