For months, Berks Area Regional Transit Authority has been considering a merger with Red Rose Transit Authority in Lancaster County to cut costs and increase efficiencies in its services.

While home sales declined in the Lehigh Valley for the first half of 2014, hampered by harsh winter weather in the opening months of the year, the houses that sold did so at the fastest pace in the last two years.

Dermody Properties broke ground this morning on what will become a 750,000-square-foot industrial development in Bethel Township's Berks Park 78, becoming a neighbor to the recently built Dollar General and PetSmart facilities in the same industrial park.

Metropolitan Edison Co. said work is nearly complete on a $9.2 million project to bring a new 60-kilovolt transmission line and rebuild another to connect substations between Reading and Muhlenberg Township in Berks County.

The death of East Penn Manufacturing CEO Sally Miksiewicz on Friday is emotionally a “devastating loss,” Jon Scott of the Greater Reading Economic Partnership said this morning.

Mike and Katie Meyer of Hamburg and their stuffed pretzels are hitting the national television airwaves a second time.

SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus in Bethlehem and the Amanda E. Stoudt Elementary School & Benners Court in Reading were both named as winners in the Urban Land Institute Philadelphia's Inaugural Willard G. “Bill” Rouse Awards for Excellence.

The first client of the Jump Start Incubator program in Reading graduated Wednesday at a celebratory luncheon at the Berks County Community Foundation.

EnerSys has broken ground on an expansion on its Bernville Road headquarters in Bern Township, just outside Reading.