Allentown Area

Showstoppers Boxing Club teaches youth how to box and stay out of trouble. That’s why Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley has uplifted the boxing club as an anti-violence initiative.

That endowment will help improve parks across the city by providing long-term funding for the Parknership’s work.

A single home on East Keats Street in Allentown was destroyed by fire early Sunday afternoon. Bystanders say it looked to have started in the basement under the front porch.

Northampton Community College received a $5,500 grant from the PPL Foundation to complete essential tasks for a Hispanic Roots of Bethlehem project that traces some of the important figures of the Lehigh Valley. (See the list)

There’s an intangible soon heading overseas in a couple hundred care packages: the comfort of knowing someone out there is thinking of you during the holidays.

Papa Roach, Rise Against and Underoath say they are coming to Allentown's PPL Center on Sept. 19.

The small works auction will be held Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Civic Theatre's 514 building on Sunday, Nov. 10. Dozens of pieces will be on display.

Councilman Ed Zucal is set to be the first person to announce a challenge to Mayor Matt Tuerk's re-election bid.

Allentown School Board members received a schematic design presentation Thursday for a proposed school at the former Allentown State Hospital site off Hanover Avenue on the city's East Side.

Paranormal Pizza has a new home on Sundays, with Jay's Local in Allentown hosting the beloved vegan pizzeria until they open their new brick and mortar location.