Walmart announced this week that it plans to hire about 40,000 employees for the holidays and beyond in seasonal and full-time jobs.

Bethlehem-based OraSure Technologies Inc. a global developer, manufacturer and distributor of surgical and medical instruments, has been selected to provide its OraQuick In-Home HIV test to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Together Take Me Home” HIV self-test program.

Six hotels in central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley have been chosen as finalists in Historic Hotels of America’s 2022 Awards of Excellence, which recognize and celebrate the finest historic hotels and hoteliers from across the U.S.

State grant money totaling $50,000 has been secured to help make improvements at historic Samuel Balliet Stadium in Coplay, state Rep. Jeanne McNeill, D-Lehigh, announced Monday.

Curaleaf Holdings Inc., an international provider of consumer cannabis products, has opened a dispensary at 1801 Airport Road, Allentown.

Pokemoto, Muscle Maker Inc.’s expanding Hawaiian poke bowl restaurant concept, announced the signing of a new franchise agreement in Allentown, its third in Pennsylvania.

At a special meeting Tuesday, Reading City Council approved the allocation of more than $4.8 million in American Rescue Plan funding to 21 nonprofit organizations.

A lot more U.S. families will soon get to experience the Crayola Experience.

Rent growth in Allentown has slowed considerably, although it still stands at 5% year over year.