AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania, a Medical Assistance (Medicaid) managed care plan serving Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania, plans to open a community wellness center in Reading. The center aims to help residents overcome social, economic and environmental barriers to their own health care.

It lasted longer than most, but the Sears store in the Whitehall Mall in Whitehall is now on the list for closure.

As the year begins its creep to the end, the days get colder, the holidays get closer and people’s hearts and wallets seem to open a little easier.

Les McCoy started out in the engineering field and after 20-plus years he decided a career change was needed so he started a commercial interior design firm built on the foundation he made during his consulting engineering days.

A number of Greater Lehigh Valley construction companies have joined forces to help Valley Youth House of Bethlehem make improvements at the nonprofit’s Orefield campgrounds.

Think smart thermostat for landfill gas emissions. Apis Innovation’s concept for outfitting landfills with automated devices to collect methane gas for reuse won the 16th annual Venture Idol contest Wednesday night. The annual event was hosted by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh University campus in Bethlehem. Apis Founder and CEO ...

Learn how area hospitals rate for safety. The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization focused on improving hospital safety, released their biannual safety ratings of the nation’s hospitals Nov. 7. The majority of area hospitals received A grades, while a few earned B, C, and even D ratings.

Local economist Kamran Afshar said an October survey of businesses in the Lehigh Valley revealed signs of slower growth across several key areas, based on business projections for hiring, purchasing, and revenue figures for the next six months, as compared to the previous six months.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s office is going after one of the leaders in the vaping industry.

Opening a business in Pennsylvania just became a bit easier. The state launched the PA Business One-Stop Shop Registration Checklist on Nov. 4 to help small business owners and entrepreneurs understand more easily which necessary licenses, permits, forms, and contact information are needed in the business start-up process.