Gettysburg-based ACNB Bank launched a new initiative to support its restaurant commercial banking customers providing meals across the bank’s Maryland and Pennsylvania footprint.

CHICAGO  — One by one, tech companies across Silicon Valley scrambled to take down a slickly produced video of a discredited researcher peddling a variety of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. It was all too late. Read more from the Associated Press.

On Sunday, police spoke to management of two Round the Clock diner locations, warning them of consequences for allowing dine-in service. On Thursday, the state made good on those warnings. Read more in the York Daily Record.

BALTIMORE  — U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March to April as business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus kept shoppers away, threatened the viability of stores across the country and further weighed down a sinking economy. Read more from The Associated Press

  Manufacturing is a life-sustaining industry.  Many of us know South Central Pennsylvania as the snack capital of the world, but it’s also home to 2,986 diverse manufacturing establishments ranging from medical equipment, plastics and metal fabricators, textiles and pharmaceuticals. Over the last two months many manufacturers have continued to provide needed components in supply chains. It’s satisfying ...

Two York County nonprofits received $56,000 grants to help families stay in their homes as they face the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

A bill to declare real estate as a life-sustaining business in Pennsylvania is heading to Gov. Wolf’s desk for signature after being passed by the state house and senate. House Bill 2412, introduced by Rep. Todd Polinchock, R-Chalfont, would allow for some level of in-person real estate in every county in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the ...

State police said this week they will defer to the discretion of local law enforcement in prosecuting businesses that don’t comply with the Wolf administration’s order to cease in-person work that isn’t considered “life-sustaining” by state officials.

“The pandemic has inflicted terrible hardship. We thank God for the courage of the people on the front lines, and you make it possible for them,” he said.

Manheim, a vehicle auction company in Penn Township, Lancaster County, plans to furlough 682 employees as a response to the impact the company has felt from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Businesses have until Monday to pay back a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of $2 million or more to avoid a federal investigation for potentially taking more public funds than they needed to keep the company afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, federal policymakers announced late Wednesday.

As businesses open throughout central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, legal and human resources experts are urging businesses to avoid liability issues by understanding the ever-evolving rules, especially as regions open in various phases without liability protections in place.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to be in the Lehigh Valley today for a brief visit to a personal protection equipment distributor, Owens & Minor in Upper Macungie Township.

Independent medical practices have overhauled how they offer in-person visits to protect their staff and patients from contacting COVID-19, but if patients don’t return soon to their providers, many small clinics – some say 30 to 50% -- could face closures by the end of the summer.

Recipients of a less than $2 million loan via the Paycheck Protection Program automatically meet financial qualifications to receive their loan based on economic need, the Small Business Administration said in a Wednesday guideline update.