Allentown Area

Rangina Hamidi, Afghanistan's former Minister of Education, will give this year's Wallenberg Tribute Lecture

The City of Allentown gathered at Cedar Beach Park to honor veterans with a three-volley salute for Veterans Day.

Restaurants and small businesses are giving veterans free food, drinks and discounts this year to celebrate Veterans Day.

Board members appeared receptive to the proposals for increased funding for the three departments in the public safety focused budget review meeting, although there were some disagreements whether to use American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Republican Jarrett Coleman will replace longtime incumbent Pat Browne as Pennsylvania's 16th District state senator.

After months of campaigning, commercials, ads and weeks of early voting, the day to decide has come and gone. We have the winners in our inaugural pet polls.

Schlossberg, a Democrat, has served in the Pennsylvania Legislature since 2012.

Sandy Simon ran and won her position as a poll worker in 1996. She has reported twice a year to prepare for the primary election every spring and the general every first Tuesday after the first Monday every November.

The biggest expenditure in the proposed budget is township building renovations, including renovations to the municipal building.

A PPL substation fire knocked out power across Allentown on Monday morning, according to the city's CodeRED system. Power was out to almost 27,000 customers around 8:30 a.m., but that had been mostly resolved as of 11 a.m.