Lehigh County News

Lehigh Valley International Airport will welcome back seasonal flights to Denver and Nashville on Thursday, May 22, just in time for the unofficial start of the summer season.

Roger MacLean, a former Allentown police chief, will take on state Rep. Josh Siegel in the November election for Lehigh County executive.

Included here are complete but unofficial results of contested races in Lehigh County for the 2025 primary election.

Jeremy Clark and James Fuller will face off in November in the race for a seat on the Northampton County bench. Meanwhile, Republican Patricia Mulqueen and Democrat Mark Stanziola will compete for the new judicial seat in Lehigh County.

Polling places across the Lehigh Valley faced mainly light turnout throughout Primary Election Day, with early morning turnout lagging.

Comments on the proposal to redevelop 249 N. Front Street on Tuesday were reviewed by the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's comprehensive planning committee.

April Lubenetski served the citizens of Lehigh Township since 2008 as a volunteer firefighter, and also was a Borough of Emmaus master firefighter.

The Lehigh Valley's public transit system says it will have to cut service by 20 percent and boost fares by 25 percent without additional state funding — something that Gov. Josh Shapiro has called for but that lawmakers will have to approve.

In this week's episode of Political Pulse, host Tom Shortell and political scientist Chris Borick talk about the Lehigh Valley's "packed primary" and the highly contested races to keep an eye on.

Drivers who have been ticketed for school bus camera violations say the process to contest them needs to change. PennDOT said thousands of citations across seven Lehigh Valley school districts are still awaiting hearings.

The entire Lehigh Valley will remain under a flood watch through Sunday after another round of severe storms hammered the region. Tonight's Heritage Day fireworks show in Easton is postponed again, the city announced. Bushkill Park in Forks Township and parts of the Slate Belt were flooded.

The disease, a relatively new and deadly threat to the American beech, has few treatment options and no known cure.

A couple of factors play into the slumping local market.

Lowhill Township supervisors denied a final plan for a warehouse owned by Core5 Industrial Partners, which is already in litigation with the township.

The Community and The Arts Clean Up aims to combine community service and engagement through a tournament-style competition – with prizes for the team that fills the most trash bags – followed by a gathering with live music and food.

Firefighters, friends and family gathered Wednesday to pay respects to longtime Allentown firefighter Chris Kiskeravage.

The new service, run by Landline and American Airlines, connects typical airport gates in Allentown with gates in Philadelphia, like any regional jet.

Three new pickleball courts were recently installed at Laurys Firehouse Park in North Whitehall Township. The township Recreation Department is offering lessons there.

Upper Macungie Township will host a workshop for residents to give feedback on land-use law revisions. It will be held on July 25 from 6pm to 8pm in the municipal building.

Rep. Susan Wild, D-Lehigh Valley, announced Tuesday she's raised more than $600,000 toward her re-election in the last three months. The race for PA-7 may be among the most hotly contested in the country next year.

Kevin Dellicker, an intelligence officer in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, nearly upset former Lehigh County Commissioner Lisa Scheller in the 2022 GOP primary for Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District. He'll hope to defeat Democratic incumbent Susan Wild in next year's race.

The project could have a developer in place as early as March 2024, redevelopment authority director Chris Gulotta said, though he cautioned that’s an “aggressive” goal.