The state House today voted 145-56 on concurrence of the bill, which the state Senate passed Tuesday, that would revert the state’s COVID-19 mitigation restrictions for establishments with liquor licenses mostly to their original form.

The bill mostly reverts to rules that were in place before stricter rules were enacted July 15 in the wake of a spike in COVID-19 cases as well as well as new regulations that were enacted Monday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry said there is going to be a delay in payments for new applicants to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program after it detected potential fraud.

Grocery stores are seeing a sharp increase in the demand for online grocery shopping and delivery.

Restaurants may increase their dining capacity from the current 25% restriction to 50% if they certify online that they are adhering to all COVID-19 preventative measures.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that stay-at-home orders issued by the Wolf administration in March to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus were unconstitutional.

An extra $300 a week will soon be going out to Pennsylvania residents who are out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state Health Department is under renewed criticism for haphazard enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions since details of the undisclosed settlement that allowed a Cumberland County auto show to take place were made public this week.

In this conversation, Lufborrow dissects the trends in employer-based plans, the broad relationships and connectivity Highmark has developed in Pennsylvania and the importance that a well-informed, connected payor has in the employer-based health care relationship.  

“The green phase was promising from the business perspective. Everyone expected green means go, we’d be open and back to normal, and that has not happened,” said Rebecca Warren, a partner at Norris McLaughlin P.A

Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Control Officers are starting to issue more violations in their COVID-19 safety checks of businesses with liquor licenses in the state. While state police say their main goal is educational, not punitive, they have been increasing the number of violations issued instead of warnings for establishments that continue to be out ...

Companies from Central Pennsylvania to the Lehigh Valley keep adjusting to the challenges brought by COVID-19, with some of the lessons changing corporate cultures and shaping business plans for 2021. In recent interviews with company leaders in the region, they relay how some of the challenges have created new policies and how they yearn for a vaccine that will make 2020 a footnote.

The U.S. added 1.8 million jobs in July as payroll growth slowed amid a split-screen economy that had employers stepping up hiring in parts of the country that continued to let businesses reopen.

OraSure Technologies said it expects to launch its COVID-19 rapid antigen in-home self-test by the fourth quarter of this year.

After a late opening because of the COVID-19 shutdown, Dorney Park will also be closing down earlier than normal. In a statement on its website, the park said it will close for the season on Labor Day, Sept. 7.