Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School was awarded a $24,600 Career and Technical Education Equipment Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, state Sen. Lisa M. Boscola announced Wednesday.

The 2022 economy was a wild ride in the Lehigh Valley. Still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, the region saw economic highs and lows in a year that was anything but typical. 

Businesses recently named a series of hires in the Lehigh Valley and beyond.

Aetna’s Bethlehem call office has been closed. 

Threshold Rehabilitation Services Inc., a human services agency serving Berks County, said that President and CEO Thomas W. McNelis is retiring at the end of the year.  

Employee misclassification continues to be a problem in Pennsylvania, but the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has released a report on recommendations to fight the problem. 

Bethlehem-based Rotoflow, an Air Products business, has opened a new Solutions Center in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, China, to better serve the turbomachinery needs of customers in Asia.

Reading Hospital is offering scholarships to attract skilled practitioners to the health care system. 

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry the state’s unemployment rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point over the month to 4.0 percent in October.

Tower Health is eliminating 52 positions in management, some effective immediately.