WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An emergency women’s shelter in Luzerne County is gaining attention on social media after it posted a call out for help with donations. Scrolling through ...

WILKES-BARRE — As Ruth’s Place prepares to move to a new location, one of its residents is getting ready to move into her new apartment. Amanda Mullis is a 34-year-old homeless woman from Hazleton who ...

Ruth’s Place Women’s Shelter’s annual Walk for Hope event on Wilkes-Barre Public Square featured a DJ, food truck, face painting, raffles, and an inflatable bounce house. Chelby Glenn paints Amanda ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — More than two dozen beds line the floor of Ruth's Place in Wilkes Barre and they are all occupied. Ruth's Place is one of our area's only 24 hour emergency shelters. "We're here to ...

WILKES-BARRE – Nancy Kempa slept in a cardboard box under the Market Street Bridge for six months and ate her meals at St. Vincent de Paul Kitchen before she finally sought help from Ruth’s Place, a ...

Area residents are invited to participate in Ruth’s Place Walk for Hope on Saturday in Wilkes-Barre to support the homeless shelter for women. The event features a walk, a resource fair, music, food, ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — In Luzerne County, folks were walking to support a local shelter. Volunteers of America of Pennsylvania hosted the 16th Annual Walk for Hope to benefit Ruth's Place, the only ...

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The City of Wilkes-Barre has extended its ‘CODE BLUE’ due to the dangerously cold temperatures. A cold blue means that the area homeless shelters are open ...

Tricia Davenport had been in the mortgage industry for 20 years, dodging six different layoffs. But this past June, she finally was laid off. In retrospect, it was a blessing that set her on her next ...