Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Buffalo District awarded a $682,000 contract to Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Co. for the dredging of the federal navigation channel i...
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On Thursday, the city of Philadelphia released its 2023 report on workforce diversity. As with previous years, the 2023 Workforce Diversity Profile and Annual Report provides an in-depth summary o...
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Penn State Extension plans to use a $50,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant to offer a progr...
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PPL Corporation announced this month it had reached an agreement with Talen Energy Corporation to resolve disputes surrounding the name of a PPL Energy Supply spinoff. Under the agreement, PPL wil...
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State officials recently toured the State Library of Pennsylvania to highlight $70 million in new funding for local libraries in the 2023-24 budget. First Lady Lori Shapiro, Secretary of Education ...
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The Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) has opened the application period for Keystone STARS Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) awards. The awards are a one-time grant for eli...
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The Office of Administration (OA) has reduced the average time to hire state employees from 90 days to 66 days, a nearly 27 percent reduction. “We want to ensure that our Commonwealth agencies ha...
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This year, the state of Pennsylvania has made significant investments into workforce opportunities, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s Secretary Nancy Walker said. "This has been a gr...
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Pennsylvania recently settled its lawsuit against with Florida-based marketing company RMC Direct Mail Services over allegedly deceptive warranty mailers. “This marketing company has sent its las...
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During fiscal year 2022-23, Pennsylvania spent a record more than $1 billion on small businesses (SBs), small diverse businesses (SDBs), and veteran business enterprises (VBEs), according to the Penns...
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Over the course of 2023, the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro invested more than $46 million to protect farms from residential or commercial development. In December alone, the adm...
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Radnor-based Triumph Group, an aerospace and defense systems and components company, recently entered into a definitive agreement with Chicago area-based AAR CORP., an aerospace and defense aftermarke...
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Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity joined PA Sen. Scott Hutchinson (R-21st District) and Rep. Tim Briggs (D-149th District) in announcing bipartisan, pro-taxpayer legislation to improve dispute reso...
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The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the state’s largest broad-based business association, elected Manuel Mar as its new board of directors chairman at its Annual Membership meeting in...
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Saxonburg-based Coherent Corp., a materials, networking, and lasers company, recently released its 2023 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report. The report sets a goal of net-zero Scope ...
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Malvern-based PQ LLC., a sodium silicates, specialty silicas and derivative products producer, plans to expand its Augusta, Ga., manufacturing facility. The company plans to install a high-efficien...
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Conshohocken, Pa.-based World Courier, a part of Cencora (formerly AmerisourceBergen), announced Tuesday it will open three transport stations to expand its presence and grow its capacity to deliver s...
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Jefferson and Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), Pennsylvania based health care providers, recently signed a nonbinding agreement to create an integrated care delivery system. The system will hav...
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On Tuesday, U.S. Sens. JD Vance (R-OH), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to block the sale of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Stee...
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In 2022, Lehigh Valley’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached a record $50.2 billion, according to data U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released earlier this month. This was approximately 1 percen...
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