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- Local
Blue Mountain School Board Approves Preliminary Budget with 5% Tax Increase, $12 Million Bond Issue for Capital Projects
Mayor to Negligent Landlords: “Fix It Up, Pay It Up, or Give It Up.”
Residents Bring Speeding Traffic Concerns to Borough Council
2026 Schuylkill County Primary Election Results
Pottsville Advances Ordinance Strictly Limiting New Skill Games Machines in City
- News
Blue Mountain School Board Approves Preliminary Budget with 5% Tax Increase, $12 Million Bond Issue for Capital Projects
Mayor to Negligent Landlords: “Fix It Up, Pay It Up, or Give It Up.”
Residents Bring Speeding Traffic Concerns to Borough Council
2026 Schuylkill County Primary Election Results
Pottsville Advances Ordinance Strictly Limiting New Skill Games Machines in City
- Business
Mac-and-Cheese Restaurant Wins Latest Launch Pottsville Business Competition
Ruby Tuesday Closes Permanently in Schuylkill County
New Heisler’s Owners Plan to Preserve Iconic Schuylkill County Brand While Leaving Their Mark On It
Lineage Logistics Announces Mass Layoff at Schuylkill County Warehouse Facility
Saks & Company to Close Schuylkill County Warehouse
- Crime
Schuylkill County Man Facing Charges of Trying to Flee Police While Wanted Now Faces Charge for Trying to Steal ‘The Running Man’
Schuylkill County Man Jailed on Breaking-and-Entering Charges
Suspect Wanted by ICE Fights Officers in Schuylkill River, Police Say
Wanted Schuylkill County Man Leads Police on Foot Chase
“Boiling Hot” Soup Thrown on Pregnant Schuylkill County Woman’s Face During Argument Over Shoes on Carpet
- Weather
- Obituaries
Jurors Hear From Accuser, Defendant in Schuylkill County Holiday Party Indecent Assault of Minor Case
Michael W. Brennan Jr., 53 – Social Club Manager at Tower City Fire Co.
Carolyn Carroll, 82 – Went to High School with Chubby Checker
🇺🇸 Stanley P. Brozana Jr., 72 – Served 37 Years as Orwigsburg Police Chief
Alberta “Dolly” Eye, 100 – Active in Girardville Community
- State
UPDATE: Trooper Released from Hospital, Another Has Condition Upgraded to Serious
THE LATEST: One State Trooper Critical, Another in Serious Condition Following Shootout with Retail Theft Suspect
Two State Troopers Shot in Franklin County
Two State Troopers Shot in Susquehanna County; Suspect Dead
Proposed Bill Would Restrict Phone Use in Pennsylvania Schools
- Sports
Graver Wins $2,000 Crate Classic; Beach and Bassininsky Score at Big Diamond
Traffic and Parking Restrictions Announced Ahead of Soap Box Derby in Pottsville
Duane Howard Grabs 94th Big Diamond Speedway Modified Victory
Railway Park Little League Unveils $600K in Upgrades
Zelinsky Invited to an NFL Minicamp
Schuylkill County News
Future tax increases likely to avoid operating in the red
Schuylkill County News
Smith focuses on blight during State of the City Address
Schuylkill County News
Several dozen Cressona residents filled the Borough Council meeting room to capacity Monday night as they brought continued concerns about speeding traffic to officials....
2020 Election
Election Day is finally here. And for thousands of Trump supporters in the area, it couldn’t come soon enough. If you’re like us, you’ve...
2020 Election
2020 General Election Results for Schuylkill CountyStay with Coal Region Canary throughout Election Day 2020 for the latest results in all the races important to Schuylkill County voters. We’re tracking...
Schuylkill County News
State Police are trying to locate a North Carolina man they say dumped 2 pallets of mayonnaise in Frailey Township over the weekend. According...
Schuylkill County News
Talk about a Halloween fright … A Pine Grove man faces an open lewdness charge after he was busted standing naked taking photos of...
2020 Election
Tim Twardzik, who is running for a seat in the State House of Representatives, announced Sunday evening he and his wife, Carol, have tested...
Schuylkill County News
High winds have knocked out the power to more than 1,300 PPL Electric customers Sunday evening. According to the utility’s Outage Map, many of...
Local Sports
The matchups for the 2020 District XI high school football playoffs are set. The postseason tournament features 13 Schuylkill League teams across 4 classifications....
Schuylkill County News
Larry Padora doesn’t hide his politics. In fact, last week, the owner of Padora’s Italian Bakery in Tamaqua, started branding his politics right on...
Local Sports
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 8 of the 2020 season. Friday, October 30 NATIVITY BVM at...
2020 Election
Couldn’t make it to the Trump MAGA rally in Reading today? No worries. We’ve got you covered. You can check out the live feed...
2020 Election
President Donald Trump will appear in Pennsylvania 4 times for Make America Great Again Victory rallies between Saturday and Monday. On Friday, the President...
Schuylkill County News
The Philadelphia Eagles will honor two fallen heroes with a helmet decal during Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys. Among them is Orwigsburg native...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
On Wednesday, Schuylkill County government officials spelled out just how it’s spent the more than $12.7 million in CARES Act funding it received to...
Schuylkill County News
Port Carbon Police are looking for the person who brazenly stole a Back the Blue yard sign outside Borough Hall recently. You can see...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
2020 Election
UPDATED: This article has been updated since it was originally published to reflect the new time for the rally in Reading on Saturday. President...
Schuylkill County News
Remnants of Tropical Storm Zeta could bring more than 2 inches of rain to Schuylkill County on Thursday. You likely awoke to rain and...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Not only are the Schuylkill County Commissioners squeezing out small businesses in the area from receiving aid grants from the CARES Act fund, they’re...
Schuylkill County News
A Donaldson man has died from injuries he sustained in a coal mining accident on Tuesday afternoon. According to State Police in Lykens, the...
Schuylkill County News
Pennsylvania State Police are looking for the person or persons responsible for vandalizing a billboard along Route 61 in West Brunswick Township last weekend....
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
A Schuylkill Haven man is in County Prison after he pointed an assault rifle at his grandmother during an argument over the weekend. According...
Schuylkill County News
An elderly Pottsville woman with a residence on Red Horse Road says someone stole some valuable jewelry from her room earlier this month. According...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
The Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce says small businesses in the area are hurting. Their time, Chamber CEO Bob Carl said on Monday, could soon...
Schuylkill County News
Last week, Schuylkill County Commissioners Chairman Boots Hetherington told the Times-News that the board could back off its new limit on recording public meetings....
Schuylkill County News
Police in Pine Grove arrested a woman earlier this month who they believe was storing meth and weed she sold in her vehicle. According...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
A Pottsville man is in Schuylkill County Prison following an incident in which he delivered a headbutt to a Trooper with Pennsylvania State Police....
Local Sports
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 3 of the 2020 season. Tuesday, Oct. 20 COLUMBIA-MOUNTOUR VO-TECH at...
2020 Election
Thousands of Schuylkill County residents have already turned in their Absentee or Mail-in ballots for the 2020 General Election. And thousands of residents probably...
Canary Jumped the Shark
Police in nearby Lansford posted an unusual lost-and-found item to social media on Thursday. It’s a bag of meth. And the post is going...
Schuylkill County News
Police say they’re going to charge a Shenandoah woman with child endangerment following an incident earlier this month. According to information released by State...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County Commissioners keep approving big-ticket projects using CARES Act money like they’ve got 3 minutes to run around the store on Supermarket Sweep....
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
TL;DR … County Commissioners passed the new rules on Public Comments. It didn’t go over well. Lots of arguing. The County is probably going...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Last week, we got a lot of reaction to the news that Schuylkill County Commissioners were going to spend about $238,000 on automatic...
Schuylkill County News
A Reading man says more than $16,000 in arcade and vending equipment was stolen from a building in North Manheim Township last week. According...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
A Pottsville area bar owner was attacked by a customer Monday evening when he asked him to wear a face mask. According to State...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Pottsville Area school board members voted Tuesday to formally oppose the potential County government purchase of the former GIANT grocery store in the city....
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Schuylkill Commissioners likely will approve a request to upgrade the HVAC system at Schuylkill County Prison this morning. But the price tag for the...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County Commissioners will try once again this week to pass a series of rules designed to limit public criticism and squash First Amendment...
Schuylkill County News
A Hershey man escaped injury after a bear ran into his Tesla Model X recently on a stretch of highway in Schuylkill County. According...
Schuylkill County News
A Pine Grove woman says she was robbed of $900 in winning scratch off tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery. According to State Police in...
Schuylkill County News
A FedEx driver from Centre County was injured by shattered glass after someone allegedly dropped a rock on his windshield from an overpass on...
Schuylkill County News
UPDATE: On Tuesday, Oct. 21, former Schuylkill County Clerk of Courts Steve Lukach was sentenced to 27 months in prison plus a fine. You...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
State Police in Schuylkill Haven are conducting an investigation of a suspected burglary at a church near Pine Grove. According to information released by...
Schuylkill County News
You’ve got to be careful of what you bring back from the bar. And several people in Washington Township learned that lesson earlier this...
Schuylkill County News
A Gordon man faces a pair of summary charges after police say he smashed a woman’s car with a baseball bat. According to State...
2020 Election
About 50 local Trump supporters gathered along Route 61 near Orwigsburg on Saturday afternoon for the latest Operation Flag Drop event in Schuylkill County....
Schuylkill County News
An overnight crash along Route 209 in Reilly Township claimed the lives of two young adults from Pottsville. State Police in Schuylkill Haven...
Coronavirus in Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County totally botched its management of the $12.7 million it received from the federal CARES Act. But its mismanagement of this largess didn’t...
Local Sports
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 3 of the 2020 season. Thursday, Oct. 15 BLUE MOUNTAIN (3-3)...
2020 Election
The choice voters have in the upcoming election is pretty clear: Do you want freedom or do you want to bow to government control?...
2020 Election
John Pence and Congressman Dan Meuser will headline a Rally the Vote event for President Donald Trump in Schuylkill County Thurdsday. The event will...
Schuylkill County News
Free speech lives to see another day (or week) in Schuylkill County! On Wednesday, the County Commissioners did not pass a new rule that...
Local Politics
This morning’s meeting of Schuylkill County Commissioners may be the last time you can actively and freely participate in one for a while. Commissioners...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County Commissioners will vote on a motion Wednesday that would severely limit participation at their weekly public meetings. The preview to the new...
2020 Election
Election Day is almost here and if you’re keen on actually going to the polls to cast your vote in the 2020 General Election,...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
PA News
A Berks County woman was arrested late last week for allegedly threatening on social media to kill Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. According to information...
Schuylkill County News
Is Spice or K2 making a comeback? The drug was popular about 10 years ago but you haven’t heard about it much recently. That...
Obituaries Index
Here are the latest coal region obituaries. Obituaries are collected from funeral homes around Schuylkill County. Follow the links to see the full obituaries...
Schuylkill County News
Fire broke out just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday and destroyed a home in Port Carbon. Five people are without a home following the incident,...
2020 Election
The 2020 General Election is getting closer. While you can apply for a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania, we know many of our readers are...
2020 Schuylkill League Football
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 5 of the 2020 season. Friday, Oct. 9 MARIAN CATHOLIC (1-4)...
Schuylkill County News
We’ve been told the restrooms at Schuylkill County Courthouse aren’t the cleanest in the world. In fact, one person described them as “deplorable”. And...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County Commissioners chairman Boots Hetherington clearly doesn’t enjoy dissent. On Wednesday, he scolded a colleague because he voted against a project that’s got...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Blue Mountain School District announced that 32 students and staff members have been “placed under quarantine” due to COVID-19 positive test results in the...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County Commissioners voted Wednesday to spend another $855,045 on a project to upgrade its 9-1-1 capabilities. And the money for it will come...
Schuylkill County News
A second house fire in Pottsville in as many days has left 6 people temporarily homeless. The call went out just after 5 p.m....
Schuylkill County Man
A Schuylkill County man told police that 30 or more people were trying to steal his mom’s camper. When police investigated, they realized the...
Schuylkill County News
An 11-year-old Pine Grove boy was allegedly propositioned for nude photos on Instagram recently. According to State Police in Schuylkill Haven, an unknown Instagram...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced new limits on crowd sizes for outdoor and indoor events on Tuesday. While the move was mildly celebrated by...
Schuylkill County News
Pennsylvania Senators voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation that would make it illegal for Schuylkill County to purchase the former GIANT grocery store in...
Schuylkill County Me Too
Schuylkill County was ordered Tuesday to make public a surveillance video purportedly showing Commissioner George Halcovage scaling an embankment next to the Courthouse. The...
Schuylkill County News
A woman jumped from a burning home in Pottsville Tuesday and was flown to a nearby trauma center. At about 1:20 p.m., Pottsville fire...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says the rate of positive COVID-19 tests in Schuylkill County recently is concerning. On Monday, the state Dept. of Health...
Schuylkill County News
In the end, the fight over The Arts Barn’s future wasn’t much of a fight at all. On Monday night, members of the North...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
State health officials say 2 more Schuylkill County residents have succumbed to COVID-19 recently. In its weekend update on coronavirus case data, the Pennsylvania...
Schuylkill County News
Police say they’re trying to obtain an arrest warrant for a Schuylkill County man who they believe punched his girlfriend 8-10 times in the...
Schuylkill County News
The Arts Barn outside Orwigsburg is fighting for its life right now. Tonight, the owner of the property where the popular non-profit business sits,...
2020 Election
Democrats in Schuylkill County gathered Saturday afternoon for a walk through downtown Pottsville showing support for the party’s Presidential ticket. About 40 people attended...
Schuylkill County News
Schuylkill County’s unemployment rate is still really high but it’s definitely improving. As Pennsylvania attempts to limp out of its pandemic response, business is...
Canary Jumped the Shark
When local authorities took the Minersville meth dealer known as The Grinch into custody recently, they found him in possession of a lot of...
Schuylkill County News
A Minersville man had more than $103,000 in cash on him when police took him down for dealing meth in the borough. Robert Kull...
Schuylkill County News
A Cass Township man faces felony drug charges after getting busted selling meth to an undercover police officer in mid-September. Police say Joshua Bickelman,...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 2 on Friday, according to data from the Pennsylvania Dept. of Health. These deaths are the 54th...
Local Sports
Here are the high school football scores involving Schuylkill League teams in Week 3 of the 2020 season. Friday, Oct. 2 PINE GROVE (1-3)...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania health officials reported the 53rd Schuylkill County death linked to coronavirus on Thursday. The sad news marks the first time in nearly 2...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter early this morning that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Earlier in the...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
A Courthouse official is again questioning the local government’s protocol when dealing with confirmed positive COVID-19 cases among Schuylkill County employees. Clerk of Courts...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
The recent spike in coronavirus cases reported in Schuylkill County can be linked, at least partly to nursing homes here, and an outbreak at...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
Parents of students at Mahanoy Area School District were warned about their kids violating the face mask policy on Tuesday. District officials say...
Schuylkill County Me Too
The internal investigation into alleged misdoings by Schuylkill County Commissioner George Halcovage is apparently not over. On Monday, The Canary learned that an agent...
Schuylkill County News
UPDATE Police have filed charges related to this incident against a Pottsville man they say violently shook an 11-month-old infant: Police Arrest Pottsville Man They Say...
Schuylkill County News
One local Democrat is planning to host a walk through Pottsville this Saturday in support of Presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate,...
Coronavirus in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Dept. of Health reported 60 new cases of COVID-19 in Schuylkill County over the last 4 days. That figure includes 41 new...
Schuylkill County News
A Westmoreland County man found himself in Schuylkill County Prison this weekend after what police describe as a drug-induced crash and home invasion. According...
Schuylkill County News
A Pennsylvania State Police officer was injured during a scuffle with a suspect earlier this weekend. The incident happened before 3 a.m. Friday along...