Steve Novak

The Oct. 14 annular solar eclipse will be visible across the country. You’ll need eclipse glasses and a place to watch. Da Vinci Science Center can help.

Live streams of the annular solar eclipse will be available, and a day of events is still planned at Da Vinci Science Center, even if clouds block direct views.

A cloudy day for the Oct. 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse did not stop astronomy events at Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown, where visitors kept busy with demonstrations, experiments and an astronaut Q&A.

It was too cloudy to see the solar eclipse, but Da Vinci kept busy with demonstrations, experiments and a Q&A with a Lehigh Valley SpaceX astronaut.

Runners returned to Bethlehem for the city’s first multi-day running festival since 2019.

The biggest threat to democracy is “how we ourselves, as democracies, operate,” former British Prime Minister says at Lehigh University, cautioning against polarization and isolation.

Yes, we still must turn our clocks back an hour when daylight saving time ends Sunday, though there are efforts to make it permanent in Pennsylvania.

An early Thanksgiving travel weather forecast suggests hitting the road early next week.

Lehigh Valley locals describe where they were when they heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.

Vice-presidential candidates will share the Lafayette College stage for their first 2024 debate, but the Easton school has hosted presidents, too.

This week in 2003, the Easton Class of ’73 had to choose between attending its 30th reunion or Easton’s unexpected playoff game. Also this week: In 1998, Lehigh football continued a perfect season, and in 1973 Allentown Record Co. is hit by the energy crisis.

Henry Kissinger’s roommate at Lafayette College described the Cold War diplomat’s eccentricities in a 1973 column for The Express.

Throw Tannenbaum, catch a piece of tradition. What it’s like to step into the circle at Bethlehem’s annual charity Christmas tree toss.

This week in 1998, The Express-Times profiled rural route carrier Paul Reinheimer, who with his family would personally answer letters to Santa.

The proposed merger of LVHN and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health could have “unseen and significant reverberations throughout the medical community,” an expert says.

Easton and Bethlehem have reason to be merry as the Winter Village and Christkindlmarkt report increased attendance in 2023.

Don’t expect any snow on the ground come Christmas Day in the Lehigh Valley, but neither Santa nor travelers should face weather difficulties here.

Spare a thought for the lonely trucker this holiday. This week in 2013, Pastor Richard Heaney was profiled for his work spreading the word at the I-78 truck stop in Bloomsbury.

The NORAD Tracks Santa program is here with live updates for Christmas Eve!

The Lehigh Valley’s New Year’s babies of 2014, 2004, 1999 and 1974 are celebrating milestone birthdays this week. To celebrate, here are mildly awkward stories about their birth!