By Travis Kellar

tkellar@timesleader.com

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Average gas prices dropped across the board overnight, marking a nearly 10-cent decrease locally and nationally in the last week.

AAA Mid-Atlantic provided the following data for today’s average gas prices:

• Wilkes-Barre area gas average at $2.06 today, down a penny overnight and down 8 cents in the last week. Diesel at $2.40 today, unchanged overnight.

• Pennsylvania gas average at $2.07 today, down a penny overnight and down 6 cents in the last week. Diesel at $2.40 today, down 2 cents overnight.

• National gas average at $1.88 today, down a penny overnight, down 8 cents in the last week. Diesel at $2.14 today, down a penny overnight.