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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) — The rock band Starship, featuring Mickey Thomas, will stop in the city of Wilkes-Barre this summer to perform a free concert on Public Square. Mayor Goerge Brown made the announcement Thursday afternoon with organizers, revealing the date of the concert: Friday, Aug. 16 at...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — The warm weather on Tuesday made for a busy day at a newly reopened nature area in Luzerne County. Seven Tubs Recreation Area in Plains Township underwent a $1 million improvement last year. Newswatch 16 found hikers walking the trails. "Just enjoying the trails, debating...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Traveling the Luzerne County Ice Cream Trail is not just sprinkles and sherbet. There are prizes to be won. More than 20 ice cream shops and parlors are participating in Visit Luzerne County’s ice cream trail, a summertime follow-up for the marketing organization’s efforts spotlighting the county’s beer and pizzamakers, Visit Luzerne County said. Encouraged by the success of its previous efforts, sundaes now share the spotlight with suds and cuts of Sicilian.

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. issued a capias warrant for Terik Wiggins for failing to appear at his sentencing hearing Tuesday on an animal cruelty offense related to abandoning Nova, a pit bull, in Pittston nearly three years ago. Wiggins, 31, was scheduled to be...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Eastern PA Animal Alliance is a non-profit, low-cost spay and neuter clinic in NEPA. EPAA has a location in Wilkes-Barre that is open on Mondays and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, EPAA goes mobile, traveling to Scranton and the Mount Pocono area. The techs with EPAA showed Newswatch 16 inside the mobile clinic, where thousands of stray and feral cats are fixed each year.

KINGSTON — From fine dining and Italian pizza joints to small town diners, veteran restaurant owner Jeff Piazza over the course of 23 years has served just about every kind of cuisine you can think of. And his new lunchtime eatery, Cafe Piazza, has brought all of it together in one spot.

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “The skies we lit up, looked all bit up, like Fido chewed them …”. Hmm. With song lyrics like that, Artie Shaughnessy isn’t likely to make it big as a composer. No, it looks as if he’s doomed to...

Expanding an already stacked slate in 2024, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE has announced a very special Halloween homecoming in Pennsylvania. Standing out as their biggest hometown gig ever, they will return for their second annual Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Apocalypse Fest on October 31 at Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza. The festival will feature a headlining set from MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, who will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of their breakthrough album "Reincarnate" by playing the LP in full along with fan favorites from their catalog.

A university in Lackawanna County brought in some trained therapists—the four-legged kind. And the students say it's just what the doctor ordered.

DALTON - Inner Harmony Wellness Center and Harmony Mountain Institute for Living provide their patients with an integrative approach to self h

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “I like it very much,” Muriel Siegel said as a musician played some polkas and tunes such as “Que Sera, Sera” using the melody Doris Day made famous in a 1956 movie. When the actress sang that tune...

The Family of Saint Ubaldo is kicking off May with the first meatball and sauce competition in Jessup.

WILKES-BARRE – For the first time in nearly 13 years, the city hosts The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz throughout multiple venues the weekend o

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “Just run down the drive and I’ll chase you, with your dress billowing.”. That’s the kind of suggestion Wilkes-Barre-based wedding photographer Brittany Boote recently gave to a bride who got married in Charleston, S.C., and the dramatic result is a picture that looks like something Scarlett O’Hara would be proud to claim.