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Last Updated: December 4, 2017 - 12:48pm

BLOOMSBURG — The Norris E. Rock Memorial Pool just got a much-needed financial boost of $200,000 to help fund an estimated $900,000 overhaul of the public facility here.

Project...

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Last Updated: December 2, 2017 - 4:05pm

DANVILLE — The 91-year-old woman injured in a car accident died Friday at Geisinger Medical Center, according to State Police in Milton.

Eileen R. Barnes was hurt Wednesday...

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Last Updated: November 30, 2017 - 4:13pm

SCOTT TWP. — A woman was taken to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash on Route 487 south near Central Road on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

The woman set off a chain-...

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Last Updated: November 29, 2017 - 5:29pm

DERRY TWP. -- A longtime cook for the Washingtonville Fire Co. had to be extricated from her car by her fellow volunteers after she pulled out from a stop sign into the path of an...

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Last Updated: November 28, 2017 - 5:38pm

BLOOMSBURG -- The town of Bloomsburg will get a $2 million shot in the arm from the state for its plan to extend an existing floodwall — a move that would bring some more homes and the...

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Last Updated: November 27, 2017 - 3:40pm

BLOOMSBURG — A Connecticut woman escaped serious injury when she pulled into the path of a turning tractor trailer Monday morning on Main Street, police say.

Alexandra Stowe, 23,...

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Last Updated: November 26, 2017 - 2:52pm

MILLVILLE — Police found a small meth lab “fully bubbling” as they served a search warrant on a suspected drug house Saturday night, charges say.

Paul W. Klock, 55, had been...

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Last Updated: November 25, 2017 - 3:13pm

BUCKHORN — A three-car crash left a sedan on its side and a smashed SUV in the middle of Mall Boulevard here Saturday afternoon, slowing traffic to a crawl.

But first responders...

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Last Updated: November 22, 2017 - 12:14pm

BLOOMSBURG — Two weeks after an Election Day tie, incumbent Bill Kreisher will again serve on Bloomsburg Town Council, officials declared today.

Initially, Democrat Vince DeMelfi...

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Last Updated: November 20, 2017 - 4:35pm

MAHONING TWP. — A man had to be cut free from his car Monday after he smashed into the back of a truck on Route 54, police say.

The man may have been talking on his cell phone,...

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Last Updated: November 17, 2017 - 1:46pm

ESPY — A minivan drifted across Route 11 Friday and crashed head-on into the cab of a tractor-trailer. 

Nancy Leighow’s navy Honda Odyssey van struck the Penske rental cab with...

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Last Updated: November 16, 2017 - 2:44pm

BLOOMSBURG — Columbia County property tax bills will rise by 6.4 percent in 2018 so the county can plug a $600,000 budget deficit.

The county commissioners approved the .75 mill...

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Last Updated: November 15, 2017 - 1:49pm

SCOTT TWP. — A dryer fire Wednesday morning caused heavy smoke to fill a second-story bathroom but did little damage to the rest of a two-story townhouse here.

Firefighters from...

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Last Updated: November 14, 2017 - 11:58am

BLOOMSBURG — Some of the money gas companies pay to drill fracking wells in the state will provide a down payment on a floodwall to protect town schools and homes in Bloomsburg's...

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