{"id":201027,"date":"2026-05-24T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:33:18","slug":"sinkhole-opens-on-scranton-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201027\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens on Scranton road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A sinkhole opened up on a Scranton road Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Near AAA North Penn on Viewmont Drive, the hole opened on the right side of the road after 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/park-decorated-honor-memorial-day-221321076.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Park decorated in honor of Memorial Day;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Park decorated in honor of Memorial Day&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Park decorated in honor of Memorial Day <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A mall security officer was directing traffic around the hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is currently unknown the cause of the hole or when it will be fixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A sinkhole opened up on a Scranton road Saturday evening. Near AAA North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88932,201,88934,88933,178,180,179,50598],"class_list":["post-201027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-aaa-north-penn","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-mall-security-officer","tag-right-side-of-the-road","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}