A Kansas-based provider of rail crew transportation services is laying off 84 van drivers in Pennsylvania, including many in Central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, after losing a contract with Virginia-based rail giant Norfolk Southern Corp.

Plans to construct a more than $100 million science museum in Easton have been called off. Lin Erickson, executive director of the Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown, which has been planning the Da Vinci Science City, said the nonprofit no longer plans to go ahead with the project at that location, which was to be built along Easton’s riverfront.

Pennsylvania's top attorney is defending his efforts to make drug-maker Purdue Pharma pay for the way it marketed the painkiller OxyContin to doctors in Pennsylvania.

Delco Innovations, a medical product supplier, bought a multi-tenant flex building in East Allen Township for $1.24 million. The company plans to move from its office in Schnecksville in July to the building, which is at 6583 Ruch Road in East Allen Township.

Different generations working together was the theme of the keynote speech at Tuesday night’s annual iXchange event at the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University in Bethlehem.

The buyer is rehabilitating the property to offer it as a rental, speculative development near Route 309.

The Scolnick Team of NFM Lending, a mortgage lender, is planning to open an office at 122 N. Fifth St. in the city.

Despite low unemployment levels, local businesses showed a considerable drop in enthusiasm about the economy in a recent survey.

With the start of summer travel season around the bend, Lehigh Valley International Airport reported a nearly 30 percent increase in passenger traffic in April compared to the same month last year.

Disabled workers are often overlooked for jobs, but sources say they can make some of the best employees.