The planning commissions from six counties received an award from the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association for their role in the Alleghenies Ahead multicounty plan. The plan hi...
Read MorePhilaPort, the Port of Philadelphia, is nearing completion of the Delaware River Deepening Project. The project will create a 45-foot shipping channel capable of accommodating vessels as large as 14,5...
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State Rep. Tony DeLuca (D-Allegheny) sent a letter recently to state Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera, urging the Department of Education to deny a request by Penn Hills School District to incre...
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State Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Clarion/Armstrong/Forest Counties) recently said that she plans to re-introduce legislation to protect patients already receiving a benefit within a policy year from cha...
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Pennsylvania recently announced it is investing $44.5 million through its Multimodal Transportation Fund to 50 infrastructure projects in 23 counties designed to improve mobility and safety. Projec...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday proposed a $4.5 billion infrastructure plan that would be funded with a severance tax on natural gas drilling, an energy tax that business and industry leaders w...
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Alcoa Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based global producer of aluminum, recently announced that John Slaven would join the company as its new executive vice president and chief strategy officer, effective ...
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U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) recently introduced a bill that would require the president to obtain Congressional approval before taking trade actions under Section 232 of the Tr...
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The sixth annual “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” Student Video Contest has a total of 26 middle schools participating this year from Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton counties. The contes...
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Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-63rd District), chair of the House Majority Policy Committee, announced Wednesday that the committee would hold a public hearing to examine the potential negative impacts of t...
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A minimum wage increase plan would lead to increased labor costs and job loss, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry President and CEO Gene Barr said in a statement Wednesday. The plan, whi...
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The State Workers Insurance Fund (SWIF), Pennsylvania’s largest writer of workers comp insurance, has filed a plan to retroactively correct charges to employers for their workers compensation polici...
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The Education and Labor Committee announced Tuesday that Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) will serve as the Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee’s Higher Education and Workforce Inv...
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The Senate Finance Committee approved Tuesday legislation introduced by State Sen. John DiSanto (Dauphin/Perry) to ensure that public employees who commit job-related felonies are stripped of their ta...
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DataBank, a Texas-based data center, cloud, and interconnection services company, recently purchased a PNC Bank data center near Pittsburgh for an undisclosed amount. The 115,000 square foot, three...
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Pennsylvania House Majority Whip Kerry Benninghoff, the chamber’s No. 3 Republican leader for the 2019-2020 legislative session, thinks the state’s tax structure should be reformed. “For the mo...
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Camp Hill-based accounting and business advisory services firm McKonly & Asbury recently acquired Bloomsburg-based tax and business services firm Brewer & Co. The purchase is part of McKonly & Asbu...
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The Northwest Commission, a Local Development District serving an eight-county region of Northwest Pennsylvania, recently launched an online survey to gather public input as it updates its regional lo...
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Bradford, Penn.-based Zippo Manufacturing Company announced Monday that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Northern Lights Enterprises, Inc. Northern L...
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Sixty-two percent of insurance fraud cases from 2013-2017 in Pennsylvania resulted in convictions or Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD), according to a new infographic from PA Courts InfoSha...
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