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Less than a week after Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy, court documents show at least 154 stores will close — including an Allentown location.

Union workers at the Mack Trucks assembly plant in Lower Macungie Township went on strike Oct. 9. The two sides are seemingly no closer to an agreement as the walkout is about to enter its third week.

DOE has selected PPL's application for consideration in the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program.

Dorney Park officials said the first piece of Iron Menace arrived Thursday, and represents the first truckload of what will be about 68 total.

The $20 million mixed-use development is offering 75 apartments with one- and two-bedroom varieties among other things.

$2.5 million of renovations are completed for the Victory Firehouse in Southside Bethlehem as BSI Corporate Benefits' new headquarters. The renovations include modern office spaces, technology improvements, a new kitchen and re-adding firehouse-like garage doors.

Allentown officials and City Center representatives have said the new zoning regulations will lay the "framework" for the developer's ambitious plans.

Blackstone Structures’ Gary Newman said he considered refurbishing or moving the buildings in lieu of knocking them down, but those projects were too expensive and infeasible.

Another pediatric emergency room now is open in the Lehigh Valley. St. Luke’s University Health Network on Monday opened the Isaacman Family Children’s Emergency Room, after establishing a children’s hospital this past June.

It will be the company's first manufacturing facility in the United States.

The authority plans to expand but that can't happen just yet.

The problem will not be solved quickly or easily, some say.

The company declared construction complete; folks along a section in Delaware County say otherwise.

Lehigh Valley Public Media opened the building on the SteelStacks campus in July 2011.

Inflation that leads to a jump in interest rates could be lurking, as well.

The Lehigh Valley lawmaker says Pennsylvania should withdraw any investments tied to Russian assets.

Russia is responsible for about 40 percent of Europe's natural gas supply.

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The number of job vacancies across the state has been shrinking since May 2021.

Leonard Lightner first started working for the city in 2008.

The region’s record sales may not just be because of a surge in interest from individuals.