Girl Scouts

The Girl Scouts just gave us yet another reason to get excited for their upcoming cookie season.

America’s most iconic youth organizations — the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA — have been jolted by unprecedented one-year drops in membership, due partly to the pandemic, and partly to social trends that have been shrinking their ranks for decades.

The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies

Local troops had to get creative this year and switch to virtual sales and drive-through pop-up shops.

The Girl Scouts have launched their cookie selling season, but this year it is different due to the coronavirus pandemic. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle gets the sweet information on the sale.

Virtual cookie booths and online ordering will be part of the Girl Scouts’ cookie-selling mission amid the coronavirus. Thousands of boxes of cookies arrived in Montgomery County Wednesday. There is also a French Toast-inspired cookie available this year.

An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil.

An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil

Lawyers for the Girl Scouts say that the century-old organization is now directly competing with the Boy Scouts for female recruits and that it’s not a fair fight

The Girls Scouts on Wednesday night deleted social media posts congratulating conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court hours after the posts sparked a wave of angry comments — and some praise.

The Girl Scouts partnered with The Fashion Institute of Technology to release a new collection for the first time in decades. The new uniforms were designed to be comfortable, functional and even include a cell phone pocket for a more modern look.

Girl Scout cookie sales may have hit a snag during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but the troops are soldiering on to introduce a new cookie next year that tastes (and looks) like a crunchy version of a beloved breakfast staple.

A 22-year-old man who plowed his pickup truck into a troop of Girl Scouts picking up trash on the side of a Wisconsin road, killing three girls and one woman, was sentenced Wednesday to 54 years in prison.

Sophia Lee, partner and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Blank Rome, and her Girl Scout mentee, Rachael Thornton, stop by to talk about the annual fundraising event hosted by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. The Take the Lead fundraising event is at the Crystal Tea Room in Center City on Tuesday.

Ronnie Backenstoe has been selling Girl Scout cookies since she was 10 years old. She started in 1932 and hasn’t missed a year since. The energetic 98-year-old recently put on her uniform and was joined by a few members from Troop 1814 at a cookie sales table they set up at Phoebe Berks, the retirement community in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, where Backenstoe lives….

Officials say delivery issue resulted in shortage of 66,000 boxes bound for Central Texas Girl Scout troops. (Video: KXAN)

For the first time, local scouts from our area are in the pictures on Girl Scout cookie boxes. NBC10’s Cydney Long spoke with future leaders in our region.

It is Girl Scout cookie season, and The CEO of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, Kim Fraites-Dow talks with Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle about the new cookie flavors and opportunities in the program.

Samoas are among the top-selling Girl Scout cookies each season but one crafty girl has found a unique way to sell even more boxes of the popular treat. Charlotte Holmberg, a Girl Scout in the fifth grade from Highlands Ranch, Colorado, may exceed her reputation as her troop’s Top Cookie CEO — the title a Girl Scout can earn for...

Girl Scout Troop 6000, the first Girl Scout Troop designed to serve girls living in homeless shelters, updates Jimmy Fallon on how they’ve grown since their last appearance, when they received a $50,000 donation from JCPenney, and he surprises the girls with a large cookie purchase.