Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped 2.3 percentage points to 8.1% in September as the state tries to recover from the COVID-19 shutdown.

Mack Trucks said it has been awarded a contract with a cooperative purchasing agency for public and government agencies.

The department launched a redesigned PA CareerLink website that focuses on accessibility and features an enhanced sourcing and application process.

The ShopRite grocery store in Greenwich Township, New Jersey, right outside of Phillipsburg, is one of three stores to launch a new “Fresh to Table” concept store-within-a-store.

St. Luke’s Physician Group of Bethlehem has acquired Dublin Internal Medicine. The practice will now be known as St. Luke’s Dublin Internal Medicine.

Saladax Biomedical, a company that makes drug monitoring tests, has announced its growing. The company, located in the Ben Franklin TechVentures in Bethlehem has hired eight new staffers to help it ramp up its production of a test used to monitor medication treatment for patients with schizophrenia.

Since January 2019 he has been senior curator at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colo., where he was responsible for the museum’s exhibition program. Before that he was director and chief curator of the art galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis.

A-Treat soda has had some unusual flavors during its more than 100-year history, with flavors ranging from grapefruit to blue. But its latest flavor isn’t a dig into its past, but a whole new treat.

The PUC recently reviewed the ride-share company’s background check process and raised concerns about its failure to provide data and document policies. The PUC audit was assessing the effectiveness of Lyft’s hiring, background checks and quality assurance programs.

Alvernia University has announced a dual-enrollment nursing program with the Joseph F. McCloskey School of Nursing at Lehigh Valley Health Network.