The Colonels are back and they’re ready to make history.  After a record-setting 2024-25 season that brought Wilkes ...

Scott Vieth is a former Beacon editor-in-chief who has spent over 20 years as a collegiate athletics coach. He is currently the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Wilkes.  Embrace Your Inner Nerd ...

The Wilkes University Women’s Wrestling team will make history for Wilkes as they will compete for the very first time at the East Stroudsburg Open on Nov. 2. Wilkes announced the addition of the ...

Another season of high school football has concluded in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Some Seniors played under the Friday night lights one last time and some will live to see another day. Out of 33 ...

October is coming to a close, which means November will be here before we know it. With the turn of the month comes the beginning of winter sports at Wilkes.  Soon enough, hockey, wrestling and ...

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are legit. One of the their best regular season starts in franchise history rolled on this past weekend as Pens grabbed a weekend sweep against the Charlotte ...

Amidst the months-long legal battle in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Lackawanna County will hold its special election on ...

Every spooky season, over 85%  of Halloween costumes end up in landfills, according to a Hubbub survey conducted in 2019. But ...

Step inside, if you dare, and walk through the doors of Philadelphia’s notorious and historic Eastern State  Penitentiary ...

With Native American Heritage Month beginning in only a few days, it seems only appropriate that the Wilkes Programming Board ...

Kailey Vogel is an English and History double major at Wilkes University. In her first year, she joined The Beacon as a ...

We are biologically wired for fear.  It is an evolutionary mechanism that keeps us safe.   Fear is meant to warn us about ...