Reading City Hall will be closed on June 20 to recognize Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a holiday that recognizes the end of slavery. Though the Emancipation…
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Berks continues to see falling COVID-19 case numbers, so much that the county has been reduced to low risk, and the number of vaccinations have…
Fighter’s Heaven near Deer Lake hosted a burial ceremony for a 50-year time capsule at the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion…
On Friday morning, three men mounted their motorcycles in West Reading, revved their engines and took off. It wasn’t anything new for Glen A. Houck,…
A Mount Penn man was arrested Thursday and charged with possessing cocaine and methamphetamine. Jonathan R. Smith, 31, of the 200 block of Endlich Avenue…
As part of ongoing efforts to address the national infant formula shortage, Pennsylvania is making a major investment in a Berks County company. Gov. Tom…
Tristan Edwards-Wright experienced a devastating loss in her life at just 8 years old. “I lost my father to brain cancer and it was a…
A Philadelphia woman was injured when she lost control of a pickup truck on Route 422 in Amity Township during Tuesday evening’s heavy rain storm.…
Juneteenth will be celebrated in Reading during four days of events starting on June 17. Juneteenth is a holiday that recognizes the end of slavery.…
State police with the Bureau of Liquor Control cited three Schuylkill County establishments for selling alcohol to minors. Troopers with the Allentown enforcement office cited…
The number of COVID-19 cases have fallen in Berks County and across Pennsylvania and the nation in the past week, but another week will be…
So many months have turned out warmer than normal since 2010 in Berks County and the region — with occasional exceptions — and last month…
Daily thought “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with…
Inventing a technology that betters the lives of people in poor nations is a rare deed. Even rarer, is inventing such a thing before hitting…
While passenger rail service hasn’t returned to Berks and Montgomery counties quite yet, a bus service that will connect Reading and Pottstown to trains in…
The latest weekly report of the Pennsylvania Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard shows the worst of the second omicron surge in Berks County and across…