After announcing in May that it plans to hire 1,000 workers for its Breinigsville facility, FedEx announced today that it is looking to hire an addition 1,000 workers for positions throughout its Lehigh Valley footprint.

With so many people changing careers after the COVID-19 pandemic, Shelley Maley of Macungie, said it was the perfect time to start her new career coaching firm, Dreamcatcher.

Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg is officially a Level II adult trauma center, making it the fourth Lehigh Valley Health Network hospital to receive trauma center accreditation. The accreditation was approved by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF), the accrediting body for trauma centers in Pennsylvania, on July 16, 2021 and is effective Sept. 1, 2021, according ...

Governor Tom Wolf highlight the importance of investing in Pennsylvania’s start-up companies during a visit to Factory LLC in Bethlehem. The governor met with representatives of companies affiliated with Factory, including Stuffed Puffs, which received a $1 million funding proposal from the commonwealth in 2019 to expand its manufacturing operations and create jobs, Mikey’s, Pipcorn, ...

With the difficulty in finding workers for manufacturing jobs in the region, a local employment agency is getting creative in its marketing to potential staff.

St. Luke’s University Health Network announced a new collaboration with Premier Inc. and Honeywell to expand U.S. production of nitrile exam gloves. The company is expect to produce at least 750 million domestically made exam gloves in the first year alone. “Throughout the pandemic, St. Luke’s has stepped up to help change the way we ...

For more than 20 years Jack Callahan’s Ale House was a popular West End Allentown Irish pub, but with mostly bar seating the pub did not survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs have become the first professional sports team in the nation to take advantage of a change in NCAA rules, which now allow student athletes to accept endorsements while still playing for a university.

PPL Corp. of Allentown is among 272 businesses across the country being recognized for their efforts to include people with disabilities.

Lehigh Valley received $1.6 million from the state to entice workers to finish their education and return to the workforce after COVID 19 shut down most of the economy for more than a year.