Jason Addy
Allentown Area reporterI cover Allentown and have worked for news outlets in Pennsylvania, Chicago and Minneapolis since graduating from Penn State. It’s great to be much closer to home — I was born and raised in Lehighton — and I’m excited to help share Allentown’s stories. If you've got an idea, I want to hear it. You can reach me any time at jasona@lehighvalleynews.com.
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A sale is scheduled to close in the coming months to Wilkes-Barre-based D&D Realty Group, which has plans for the holiday lights to continue, albeit in a new fashion. -
Five public meetings are scheduled over the next seven months mapping out the future of Allentown's parks and recreational facilities.
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That endowment will help improve parks across the city by providing long-term funding for the Parknership’s work.
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Councilman Ed Zucal is set to be the first person to announce a challenge to Mayor Matt Tuerk's re-election bid.
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Allentown City Council on Wednesday night authorized Mayor Matt Tuerk to submit three million-dollar grant applications and two smaller requests for financial support.
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The referendum's wording was far from straightforward and caused confusion for many voters.
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Former New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu, a co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, says a comedian's comments at a Donald Trump rally in New York City was a turning point in the 2024 presidential campaign.
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Simply put, a yes vote is a vote to let council raise the deed transfer tax. A no vote would keep the city's cap in place.
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Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is making a final push to rally supporters and win votes in Allentown after former President Donald Trump rolled through the city this week.
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The mayor and finance director fielded just two questions after delivering their 2025 budget presentations to council members Wednesday.
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PPL announced Thursday it plans to move its longtime headquarters this fall to Two City Center, at Seventh and Hamilton streets.
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Officials postponed two Allentown City Council meetings until June 13 with the region under a “code red” air quality alert Wednesday.
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The Sixth Street Shelter has helped thousands of people get back on their feet since opening in 1984, according to the organization’s leader.
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Thousands of residents signed petitions in support of the measure, which Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca labeled as “defund-the-police rhetoric.”
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Those 180 units would be split evenly across four large buildings, according to the developer’s initial plans.
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Newly reformed Lehigh County Redevelopment Authority gets back to work, and jumps into first projectThe authority was first established in 1986, but it had been defunct for about a decade until recently. The Iron Works Project in Catasauqua is its first order of business.
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Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk met up with his counterparts from Scranton and Williamsport on Wednesday as part of a tour to highlight projects funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.
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All primary results in Lehigh and Northampton counties are now official after election workers ran audits and validated totals over the past two weeks.
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City Council members Ce-Ce Gerlach, Santo Napoli and Candida Affa finished as the top three vote-getters in more than a third of Allentown's precincts in their bids for re-election.
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The chain of more than 40 trumpeters — ranging in age from 11 to 76 — stretched several miles to Bethlehem's Memorial Park Cemetery, where Taps Over Bethlehem founder Dan Deysher was laid to rest.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro told LehighValleyNews.com on Thursday that he was “proud” the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources helped “make this park a reality.”
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Blackstone Structures wants to tear down a historic building that's on the site of a proposed 142-unit apartment complex.
