Resources for a successful eviction diversion program dried up as filings increased in Berks County’s busiest eviction court.

Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?

The proposed 2026 budget aims to close a growing deficit. Council members are considering a 9% property tax increase or risk ...

Some people in Reading spent Tuesday afternoon hoping to get their power back before the temperatures dropped.

Reading firefighters battled a fire in a three-story downtown apartment building Sunday afternoon. The fire was discovered about 3 p.m. at 137 N. Fifth St. The first crews reported heavy smoke from ...

Reading City Council approved the 2026 budget with a 6% property tax increase, rolling back the administration’s proposed 9% hike after weeks of debate. The plan has several small cuts but leaves ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

KOReader with Gemini adds smart summaries, spoiler free guides and custom prompts that reshape how you read on a Kindle.

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of U.K. adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Illinois lowered its standards in 2025, but over half of third graders still couldn’t read at grade level. It’s a critical ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...