Reading news

Reading City Council meets Sept. 21 to create a HUD-funded lead and healthy-homes staff position and record a $200,000 housing grant already in hand.

Reading City Council enacted a vacant-property registry Aug. 24 with semiannual fees up to $5,000, and extended its commercial LERTA tax break 10 years.

A running tracker of Berks County data centers: what is operating now, the one big AI campus proposed, and which towns have zoning rules.

The county and City of Reading say fraudulent emails using real employee names and logos are targeting Berks businesses to get financial information.

Reading is weighing a vacant-property registry with semiannual fees that climb to $5,000 for the buildings left empty and neglected the longest.

Reading City Council voted July 13 to declare its zoning code invalid on data centers, starting a 180-day pause on applications while it writes rules.

Reading City Council votes July 13 on declaring its zoning code invalid on data centers, invoking a 180-day pause on applications while it writes rules.

Reading, Spring, Bern, Exeter, and Cumru are all writing data-center rules at once. Who has an ordinance, who wants a moratorium, and what decides July 13.

Reading City Council removed 13 proposed Home Rule Charter amendments from November's ballot after the Charter Review Commission missed its reporting deadline.