The Hellertown Police Department has officially joined the thousands of other law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. that rely on body-worn cameras to help keep officers and members of the public safe.
With the first day of spring little more than a week away, many residents of the Lehigh Valley have begun putting their snow shovels and sidewalk salt away, secure in the knowledge that the relatively uneventful winter of 2021-2022 is nearly over. According to meteorologists, however, Mother Nature is preparing one last, icy curveball for them.
Pennsylvania State Police at Belfast reported Tuesday that a flying chunk of ice from a vehicle damaged a tractor-trailer’s windshield on a local highway last week.
The approaching band of heavy snow prompted local police and state officials to issue emergency alerts warning motorists that hazardous driving conditions were expected.
A wall along the east side of a small bridge across the Black River in Lower Saucon Township collapsed over the weekend, leading to questions about whether traffic on it may be restricted.
One of the Lehigh Valley’s busiest north-south routes remained closed as of mid-day Tuesday due to utility wires that were brought down onto it by a car accident Monday.
Pennsylvania State Police Troop M are asking for help from the public with identifying the operator of a car they say may have been involved in a fatal accident on I-78.
If you regularly travel Old Bethlehem Road in Springfield Township, you may need to use a detour for some time. Springfield Township Police announced Tuesday that a portion of the two-lane road “will be closed for an extended length of time due to storm water damage.”
A historic storm that dumped as much as 7 inches of rain on parts of the area Wednesday left sunny skies, cooler temperatures and plenty of debris to clean up in its wake, but the general consensus among residents seemed to be that it “could have been worse.”
As the remnants of Hurricane Ida pressed eastward across Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon, rainfall rates steadily increased across the Lehigh Valley, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks and Montgomery counties, along with parts of surrounding counties.
