Health care professionals interviewed by Lehigh Valley Business feel awareness of the risk of workplace violence in the health care arena is lacking. And they believe that training in how to handle workplace assaults needs to be a bigger part of the health care landscape.

Secaucus, New Jersey-based Freshpet Inc. is expanding its Lehigh Valley operations with the groundbreaking of a second manufacturing plant, which it refers to as a Freshpet Kitchen.

A group of a dozen teachers from the Allentown, Salisbury and Whitehall-Coplay school districts will be wrapping up a program at Lehigh Carbon Community College this week that is helping them get involved in developing students’ interest in STEM careers.

The debate over lifting Pennsylvania’s minimum wage is reverberating among small-business owners in the Lehigh Valley who worry about the consequences.

June 20 marked the 27th annual United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley’s Day of Caring, which is run in partnership with the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley.

Under its collaboration with Honeycomb Credit, Pennsylvania Downtown Center members – such as downtown development groups – can take part in Honeycomb’s Main Street Champion program, which unlocks capital for local businesses.

With the impending sale of the Reading Eagle Co. to Media News Group of Denver, the company has issued a notice that calls for the elimination of 81 jobs effective June 30 – the day the sale is expected to be complete.

Pennsylvania dairy farmers, a coalition of dairy leaders and sympathetic politicians are urging legislators in Harrisburg to push Congress to pass reforms that would permit whole milk to be served in schools.

The market will be in a 12,000-square-foot space below the Strata West apartments along the ArtsWalk, a pedestrian walkway connecting the Allentown Renaissance Hotel and PPL Center on Seventh Street with the Allentown Art Museum.