More than $1 million in grants were awarded Friday to dozens of career and technical centers (CTCs) and area vocational technical education schools across the state.

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was the highest it has been all year in November after hitting a record low in April. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported this week that the state had an unemployment rate of 4.3% after hiring 18,000 Pennsylvanians last month. Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate remains higher than the national rate, which ...

As president of Sage Design-Build Inc. of Upper Macungie Township, a firm he founded in 2009, Joe Landrigan has had his hand in the construction and renovation of many prominent properties in the Lehigh Valley, including most recently, his work to design and renovate the Swain School in Salisbury Township.

After more than 45 years as a practicing attorney and managing partner at Tallman, Hudders & Sorrentino in Allentown, and later, Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, the New York-based firm it merged into, Matthew Sorrentino switched gears.

It’s official. After announcing plans for Lehigh Valley Health Network to acquire the privately owned Coordinated Health of South Whitehall in September, the health network has officially closed on the deal.

Perhaps best known locally as the former CEO of Freshpet Inc., who brought fresh pet food manufacturing to the Lehigh Valley, Richard Thompson has a long and storied career in manufacturing, particularly in the food industry.

With almost 30 years of experience in the civil engineering industry, Matthew Malozi of Bethlehem has taken on a variety of leadership roles over the years and formed a new company earlier this year.

A principal and project manager at Artefact Inc., a local architecture firm, has been directly involved in numerous adaptive reuse projects throughout the Lehigh Valley.

While economic indicators remain high for the U.S. economy as a whole, the central and southeastern Pennsylvania regions have been beset by tumultuous global trade and a weak manufacturing sector for the last year and a half, according to a recently published study by analysts at RKL, a business consulting firm based in Lancaster

A federal agency’s recent report shows the Lehigh Valley’s economic output for private industry pushing past $41 billion, a 4.4 percent increase over the previous year.