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07/24/2025

The City of Bethlehem is looking to celebrate the Moravian Church Settlement's World Heritage Site designation in a few months.

The city and Lehigh Valley partners want you and the whole family to check out the free World Heritage Community Celebration from noon to 7 p.m. Sept. 6.

07/24/2025

"Easton has seen flooding go from a once in a three- to four-year event to becoming something which is an annual event," state Rep. Robert Freeman, D-Northampton, said Thursday.

Part of Climate Action Campaign’s Extreme Weather Emergency Tour, the event centered on how extreme weather, exacerbated by climate change, has deadly consequences.

07/24/2025

The man is in Lehigh County jail unable to post his $75,000 bail.

Police tried to stop Thomas Kravitz's vehicle as it arrived at the woman’s home, but he drove away, hitting an Allentown police car, police said.

07/24/2025

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute will merge into a single nonprofit, the groups’ leadership announced today.

The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley will absorb the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute's research staff and operations, the nonprofits announced Thursday.

07/24/2025

The Lehigh Valley’s James Lawson Freedom School, the only of its kind in the state, is a six-week summer program that uses a multicultural literacy curriculum and an intergenerational teaching model. Students in grades Kindergarten through ninth participate, and there is a waiting list to get in.

The Lehigh Valley’s James Lawson Freedom School is a six-week summer program that uses a multicultural literacy curriculum and an intergenerational teaching model.

07/24/2025

The Bethlehem Rose Garden, at West Union Boulevard and Eighth Avenue, will get new asphalt pathways, lighting upgrades, and new bike racks and litter receptacles, with help from a $50,000 from the commonwealth.

The Bethlehem Rose Garden, at West Union Boulevard and Eighth Avenue, recently was approved for the funding through the state Department of Community and Economic Development.

07/24/2025

Scott Gordon is a professor of English and a scholar of the Colonial and post-Colonial history of the Lehigh Valley. He recently spoke with WLVR’s Brad Klein about the role the Moravians played in the American Revolution.

Scott Gordon is a professor of English and a scholar of the Colonial and post-Colonial history of the Lehigh Valley. He recently spoke with WLVR’s Brad Klein about the role the Moravians played in the American Revolution.

07/24/2025

Lehigh County's board of commissioners moved toward adopting a capital spending plan for 2026-30, laying out nearly $122 million of spending on more than 100 projects.

07/24/2025

Easton City Council approved a measure to partner with Solsmart, an organization which helps facilitate the growth of solar energy communities across the country, at their Wednesday meeting.

07/24/2025

Allentown City Council by a 5-2 vote approved a resolution supporting House Bill 1200, a Democratic-sponsored bill deemed "dead on arrival" in the Senate back in May. (Senate Bill 120 was more recently proposed July 10, deemed as a bipartisan effort to legalize adult-use cannabis)

Members passed a resolution supporting a Pennsylvania House bill to legalize ma*****na and Gov. Josh Shapiro's proposed budget, which projects millions in taxes from the move. Two former cops on council voted against the measure.

07/24/2025

From 8 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 25, you'll be able to buy tickets for six of Musikfest's 11 headline shows — and a paid-ticket Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks show — at 25% off.

07/24/2025

: It's looking like Allen High School is about to get a new principal.

Alicia Knauff is poised to take over as the acting head principal of the high school just months after she was hired as the first principal of Allen’s Ninth Grade Academy.