US Forest Service to shut down city office

April 11, 2026

The U.S. Forest Service is relocating its headquarters across the country, leading to the closure of four facilities in Pennsylvania, including Williamsport. According to reporting by WGAL-TV, a Lancaster-based television station, the Trump administration is moving the service’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah, and will transition to a more state-based organizational model. Research and development facilities in York, Irvine, Long Pond and Williamsport will close. “For an agency whose lands, partners, and operational challenges are overwhelmingly ...

Clinton, other counties play role in ICE detentions

April 11, 2026

HARRISBURG — A group of Pennsylvania counties has billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years to detain immigrants in their jails, a first-of-its-kind review by Spotlight PA has found. While these agreements predate the second Trump administration by years or even decades, they are receiving new attention as the president executes a mass deportation campaign that relies heavily on local partners. They also highlight how counties in Pennsylvania already cooperate with ICE and other federal agencies to detain immigrants. Earlier this year, the Department of ...

High court rejects Penn State’s bid to keep trustee records hidden from public

April 10, 2026

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters.) STATE COLLEGE — The state’s highest court ...

Muncy Township supervisors want more documentation

April 10, 2026

PENNSDALE — With only two Muncy Township supervisors in attendance, a vote on an agenda item calling for tenant commitment documentation for proposed developments was pretty much a done deal as the board chair, Terri Lauchle, and her vice-chair, Denise Artley have at past meetings voted ...

Williamsport man charged after allegedly starting fire in Center City building

April 10, 2026

Michael Eugene Cover, 55, was arrested late Wednesday night after allegedly setting a fire in the hallway outside his third-floor apartment in the Center City building at 47 W. Fourth St, according to city police. Responding to the six-story high-rise apartment building just before 11 p.m., ...

Lycoming County commissioners talk cancellation of July 4 fireworks in Williamsport

April 10, 2026

The Lycoming County Commissioners want the public to know that they had nothing to do with the recent cancellation of the Fourth of July celebration by Williamsport, which was officially announced this week, after they “kind of got slammed,” according to Commissioner Marc Sortman. “I want to make it very clear, the three of us had no decision, nor were we invited to discuss the city’s decision to not hold a Fourth of July celebration. We were not consulted, as if we could even help…this office did not cancel Fourth of July celebrations in downtown Williamsport,” Sortman ...