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Phil Gianficaro/LehighValleyNews.comLehigh University and Good Shepherd Rehabilitation are collaborating to create a more successful connection between rehabilitation applications and improvement for individuals with a range of injuries and conditions.
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Micaela Hood/LehighValleyNews.comFrom Allentown to Easton, volunteers spent the day beautifying schools, reading to seniors and building beds for shelters. The American Red Cross and the Allentown Fire Department also participated by installing smoke detectors in homes across the city during the annual event.
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Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will be closed on Mondays starting next week, on Nov. 6. Hourly employees' time will be reduced to 32 hours a week.
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After 40 years with the Boys & Girls Club of Allentown, CEO Deb Fries-Jackson is retiring. The Allentown native and former school teacher was instrumental in the merger of the local Girls Club and Boys Club in 2002.
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St. Luke's University Health Network is naming part of its St. Luke’s Pediatric Specialty Center off Route 309 for Mike and Jean Grabarits.
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The local American Red Cross chapter is looking for people to nominate local heroes for helping others. Nominations are open now through November for the Celebration of Heroes event in which they recognize community members, first responders and veterans.
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Lehigh Valley Anti-Trafficking Week, a collective effort to address the issue of human trafficking and give voices to survivors, will have a week of events to raise awareness in the local community.
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When word went out from a Bethlehem church ministry that it needed a clothes dryer for its pay-as-you-can community cafe, its prayers were answered by the generosity of a fellow city church.
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Foxy's Cradle cat nursery is to appeal a code notice to North Whitehall Township that its operation was unpermitted. The owners of the nonprofit, which raises orphaned and neonatal cats, is seeking a special exemption to continue the operation, taking to Facebook to garner public support in advance of the meeting.
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity hosted a children's storytime hour sponsored by the Northampton chapter of conservative group Moms for Liberty.
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Following the attacks of Hamas against Israel this past weekend, members of the Lehigh Valley's Jewish community came together for a prayer vigil at the Jewish Community Center in Allentown.
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The organization has supported children with cancer insuring they have an angel watching over them.
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Nonprofits need your help to fill the holiday season with joy for those who need it the most.
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A message from the Emmaus Public Library director alerted library residents that the budget item would be discussed at the workshop held Monday. Councilmembers voted to affirm that the funding would remain for the upcoming year.
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Several dozen people, bundled up against the cold, memorialized transgender people killed across the country in the last year. That included 48 people the event’s organizers could identify, and many others whose deaths garnered less attention.
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Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center met its funding goal to build a new Pride Café through donations and state budget funding.
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Officials offer 6 tips to keep Pa. consumers' energy costs down and keep warm as temperatures drop.
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Community forum for Upper Saucon Township seeks long needed third communal space
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The free program, which kicks off Thursday at The Caring Place in Allentown, will range in offerings for kids as young as 6 years old and all the way up to young adults.
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According to new data from the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute, higher than ever numbers of suicide attempts and mental health issues among middle and high school students now exist. The group says data showed one in nine Pennsylvania teenagers attempted suicide in 2021, and two in five were depressed.
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Local businesses and nonprofits came together to throw a surprise party for the kids of the 6th Street Shelter. The celebration included a night of spa treatments and fun.
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There is now a holiday ornament available of the Mount Vernon Hotel, a local Easton landmark.
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After months of campaigning, commercials, ads and weeks of early voting, the day to decide has come and gone. We have the winners in our inaugural pet polls.
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Community Action Lehigh Valley members say they aim to reduce barriers in the region, but there are still many to overcome.