City Council has authorized applying for a state grant that would help stabilize and expand Reading’s Police Youth Academy and another grant for improvements along Tulpehocken Creek. Council members unanimously approved submission of an application for $900,

A heavy police presence was reported in Reading after officers responded to a domestic situation where one person was believed to have a firearm, officials said. Patrol officers were called around 8:30 a.

Traffic on Reading Road would be slower with fewer lanes. Officials like that prospect; residents, not so much.

City officials say progress against blight depends on property owners, developers and neighborhoods working alongside the city.

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for numerous High Wycombe drug crimes.

Police remain at Hachette's warehouse near Didcot as the "manslaughter" investigation continues.

A Reading man was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash this week in Maxatawny Township, state police said. Joseph A. Ambrose, 63, was thrown from his pickup truck during the crash Tuesday afternoon in the 600 block of Topton Road, troopers at the Reading station said.

This year, the Government once again offered councils the option to defer their elections. In a rare moment of cross‑party agreement, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council voted for the planned elections to proceed.