{"id":201139,"date":"2026-05-24T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:11:09","slug":"sinkhole-opens-on-scranton-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201139\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens on Scranton road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WBRE;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WBRE\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Sun, May 24, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wbre_articles_226\/7f9d0e69d75f018ea0231b5286e6e7fc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A sinkhole opened up on a Scranton road Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Near AAA North Penn on Viewmont Drive, the hole opened on the right side of the road after 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Park decorated in honor of Memorial Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/park-decorated-honor-memorial-day-221321131.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Park decorated in honor of Memorial Day\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mall security officer was directing traffic around the hole.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently unknown the cause of the hole or when it will be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, May 24, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A sinkhole opened up on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201140,"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-201139","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\/201139","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=201139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}