Bob Kalinowski

Nanticoke City Council last week approved the purchase of the former 109th Field Artillery Pennsylvania Army National Guard armory to the city.

NEWPORT TWP. — Seven Luzerne County residents have filed a lawsuit in Luzerne County Court against Newport Twp. over a proposed $35 billion, 15-data-center complex, alleging violations of the state's Sunshine Act.

BEAR CREEK TWP. — A group of township residents raised mini bottles of liquor outside the volunteer fire hall on Thursday night to celebrate after supervisors established a zoning ordinance regulating data centers that limits them to 66 acres of land already zoned industrial.

KINGSTON TWP. — The former Rite Aid store and pharmacy on Memorial Highway in Shavertown is being advertised for lease as a repurposed three-unit retail space featuring a national coffee brand and auto parts store.

PLAINS TWP. — Township commissioners on Thursday voted to abandon a proposal to create a data center overlay district on the border of Bear Creek Twp. and Jenkins Twp.

Voters in three Luzerne County municipalities will vote next week on whether to increase the size of their boards of supervisors from three to five members.

Laura Riechers was shocked to hear during last month’s commissioners meeting that the township issued permits for a 15-data-center campus a month earlier with no public input.

The race for state representative in the 119th Legislative District features two-term incumbent Alec Ryncavage, a Republican, and Crestwood School Board president Lauren McCurdy, a Democrat.

A Wyoming woman who was infamously accused of poisoning her son's girlfriend with antifreeze-laced Juicy Juice in 2010 has died, according to an obituary posted online by the Gubbiotti Funeral Home in Exeter.

The race for the 20th state Senatorial District is a Baker-vs.-Baker rematch from 2022.