Two new tasting rooms opened at the end of February in downtown Harrisburg, promising to give Pennsylvania's swelling roster of craft breweries, wineries and small-batch distilleries a better – albeit limited – opportunity to sell their beverages.

Ask almost anyone in the manufacturing industry and they'll tell you that the need for skilled workers has been their No. 1 problem for some time – and it is reaching a critical point.

After more than 30 years with MI Metals, Kevin Sponsler thought it was time to write a new chapter for the company's plant in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County.

A common thread among area business leaders is their ability to seek out peers for advice, mentorship and personal growth.

Trade, jobs and immigration were on the minds of business people, legislators and others who met this week in Harrisburg with Linda McMahon, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Electronic-parts maker TE Connectivity Ltd. depends on new products to drive about 20 percent of its annual net sales, which totaled $14 billion last year.

The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems two contract modifications worth up to $575 million for production of an armored multi-purpose vehicle, or AMPV, and much of the work will be performed at BAE's York County facility.

Karen Biondolillo was a public accountant for years but her time as a financial analyst at Black & Decker convinced her that she needed to lead business decisions rather than keep score.

AHF Products has added a CFO to round out its leadership team.

Plants help people in many ways but they don't always get credit, said Mike Planer, co-founder of Soltech Solutions in Bethlehem.

During a tour Thursday of a High Steel Structures plant in East Lampeter Township, Gov. Tom Wolf defined his plans to strengthen Pennsylvania's workforce and highlighted the private company's efforts toward educating the state's labor pool.

AHF Products, a new Lancaster County company, has named its first chief.

Engineering firm Barton Associates Inc. has joined the ranks of companies that are fully owned by their employees.

Hanover Logistics has purchased the former 325,000-square foot GlaxoSmithKline Distribution Center in Penn Township Industrial Park.

Central Pennsylvanian farmers could begin growing one of the top cash-producing crops in the country by 2020 if a pharmaceutical company picks the state to grow a plant used in malaria medication.