Eight years ago, a group of volunteers gathered to take samples in the Black Creek near Weatherly.
The work done by those volunteers laid the groundwork for a multimillion dollar project to clean up t...
The body of a young man was pulled from the Lehigh River Tuesday evening near the Glen Onoko area of the Lehigh Gorge State Park.
The man was first reported unaccounted for after he made his way throu...
The body of a young man was pulled from the Lehigh River on Tuesday night after a nearly two-hour search by local rescue crews.
Family and friends of the drowning victim, Angel Rivas, 24, of Hazleton,...
JIM THORPE (AP) — Katelyn Carlisle nervously eyed the murky waters lapping at her feet.
“It’s quick. You gotta swim. You can swim, right?” her friend, Chris Manzi, 23, quipped from the opposite riverb...
Kayakers and rafters will have three more chances to float down the Lehigh River in late summer, thanks to additional whitewater releases from Francis E. Walter Dam.
The Army Corps of Engineers annou...
As thrillseekers, local whitewater rafting guides love heavy rain like we’ve seen this week.
But as business operators, it’s more complicated. The most popular rafting weekends of the season take plac...
Multiple fire companies continue to fight a major brush fire that broke out at the Lehigh Gorge State Park Wednesday afternoon.
Vince Yaich, Jim Thorpe Fire Company chief, said the department got the ...
Firefighters have contained the brush fire that burned roughly 315 acres on Wednesday afternoon into Thursday night at the Lehigh Gorge State Park and Pennsylvania Game Commission property. The state ...
A 72-year-old man was rescued after suffering a medical emergency while on a rafting trip in the Lehigh Gorge in Lehigh Township Sunday afternoon.
Lehigh & Lausanne Rural Vol. Fire Co. Fire Chief Tim ...
Water freezes on a rock wall at Lehigh Gorge State Park. Frigid temperatures will continue through the weekend, with wind chill values as low as 8 below zero during the day and a low of 13 tonight. CH...