Allentown Area

City officials searched the Hamilton Business Center this week after receiving complaints about the building. Inspectors found numerous safety and zoning issues with the building, officials said.

WLVR's Megan Frank talks with LehighValleyNews.com reporters Jason Addy and Ryan Gaylor, as well as Managing Producer Stephanie Sigafoos.

Former board members Nancy Wilt, Patrick Palmer and Evelyn Santana did not seek re-election.

A “mixed-use overlay district” approved Wednesday by a 4-3 vote provides the zoning framework for City Center's ambitious plans.

The bill will be reworked by the Lehigh County Human Relations Advisory Council and legislators after conflicting amendments prevented it from moving forward

A 54-year-old time capsule was removed from a cornerstone at Mosser Elementary School in Allentown on Thursday. A few alumni from the 1969 sixth grade class were in attendance.

Investigators interviewed more than two dozen workers over 18 months before recommending “the termination of three employees” in November, Allentown spokeswoman Genesis Ortega said.

Council members passed a resolution that called the mayor’s service “a detriment to the well-being of the city, its residents and city employees.”

Amtrak officials previously said passenger rail between Allentown and New York City could be restored as soon as 2024. However, a $300,000 study exploring the proposed connection is more than a month overdue.

Jabber Jaws Bar & Grille is set to close Dec. 30, but not before one final party.