The Times Leader

The Times Leader covers Northeastern Pennsylvania. Our seven-day news product is flagship of The Times Leader Media Group, a collection of print and digital products that cover the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Our website, timesleader.com, is the most-read news website in Luzerne County. The Times Leader is headquartered at 90 E. Market St. in Wilkes-Barre, at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Market Street. We also have offices in Pittston and Clarks Summit. In 1797, the Wilkes-Barre Gazette and Luzerne Advertiser became the first newspaper to serve the Wyoming Valley. Since then, a variety of community weeklies, foreign language publications and political notices have come and gone. Todays Times Leader traces its beginnings to 1907, when Fred C. Kirkendall and Col. Ernest G. Smith combined their newspapers, the Wilkes-Barre Times and the Times Leader. The Times Leader continued for 32 years until 1939, when a major strike forced its merger with the Wilkes-Bar...