Industry News

Northumberland County's unemployment rate reached double digits in May - the first it's been that high in nearly 17 years.

York County is known for its manufacturing heritage. Unfortunately for York County, the jobs right now are in education and health services -- not manufacturing.

Lehigh Valley area unemployment resumed its upward march in May, rising to its highest level in nearly 25 years, according to a report released Monday.

More than 20,000 Pennsylvanians are expected to exhaust their jobless benefits in mid-July. The state Department of Labor and Industry expects them to be the first large wave of people who have gone through as many as 72 weeks of unemployment benefits.

About 80 educators and business leaders participated in the first Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Conference at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, in May.

The borough is in jeopardy of losing a $103,000 state grant that would pay Pennsylvania Conservation Corps workers to finish construction at the Second Street Community Center and take on other projects.

In September, the bottom was dropping out of the nation's financial markets. The nation posted eight months of job losses and the public-at-large awoke to the fact that a recession was under way.

The former borough secretary in Industry, Beaver County, faces at least nine months in prison for pleading guilty to stealing more than $200,000 from the municipality.

The former secretary of a western Pennsylvania borough faces at least nine months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $200,000 from its coffers.

Gov. Ed Rendell on Wednesday unveiled $500 million in cuts to his proposed 2009-10 budget, but its bottom line will remain largely unchanged.

Robert Morris University received a grant last week for $500,000 toward the construction of a new nursing simulation center on its Moon Township campus.

A part-time Beaver County police officer is charged with assault stemming from a fight outside a Chester, W.Va., bar during a bachelor party.

An off duty police officer from Pennsylvania is being charged for malicious assault outside of a nightclub near Chester.

A Beaver County man was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after taking a beating at a Chester, W.Va., bar -- allegedly at the hands of an off-duty police officer.

Durham School Services, a York-based school bus provider, has notified the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry that it is closing its Gibsonia plant effective June 30.

Gov. Ed Rendell started talking about tapping the rich layer of Marcellus Shale under Pennsylvania with a natural gas tax when he released his proposed 2009-10 budget back in February.

The closing of the Pizza Hut store a week and a half ago may mean another empty commercial space on East College Avenue - or does it? Another restaurant company, whose owners asked that it not be named, is apparently very interested in the site.

A Texas-based company has sent notice to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry that it will lay off 15 employees at its office in Washington, Pa.

Is it another indication of an improving local economy? On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry released the Midstate's unemployment numbers for April and some areas recorded a decline.

The Lehigh Valley unemployment rate remained steady in April at 8.3 percent, a minor victory for a labor market that has tanked since last autumn.