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Local restaurants in the Lehigh Valley are already embracing 2025 culinary trends from the National Restaurant Association's annual report. From sustainability efforts to emerging Southeast Asian flavors, businesses have already given customers a taste of what's in store for the new year.

It all started with a collaboration between a local bridal shop and Historic Hotel Bethlehem. Since then, all successive members of the owner's family have celebrated their nuptials there.

If you're looking to entertain guests with delectable beverages sans alcohol this New Year's Eve, there are more — and better — options than ever, including some locally-made drinks.

At least a half-dozen popular Lehigh Valley restaurants permanently closed their doors or released plans to shift operations in the final months of 2024.

Instead of becoming home to 240 apartments as once proposed, the former IQE property at 119 Technology Drive will house the U.S. headquarters for GfM Bremen, a German pharmaceutical company.

Easton Winter Village, the city's holiday market centered around Centre Square, opened Sunday for the last time in 2024. Business was slower this year than in years past, according to vendors.

The annual Trees of Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites exhibit is now on display through Jan. 12.

Big Lots announced going-out-of-business sales would start in coming days, as it no longer anticipates its purchase agreement with Nexus Capital Management to go through.

Easton residents came together at the community center Thursday night to question developers behind the Easton Commerce Park warehouse, with many speakers stating the community did not want the project due to environmental and traffic concerns.

The first phase of development at Bridgeview Estates replaced nine 1970s public housing buildings with six structures featuring 50 multi-bedroom apartments.

PPL on Tuesday afternoon hosted a webinar on its Deep Energy Retrofit Pilot program. Here's what Lehigh Valley homeowners need to know.

Cable and internet provider Comcast is set to bring XFinity and other services to the Borough of Emmaus after a franchise agreement was signed by borough council.

A couple of factors play into the slumping local market.

Lehigh University is hosting 25 young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a cultural exchange program funded by the U.S. State Department.

Restaurant Week returns to Easton on July 16, with a plethora of delightful plates to please just about any palate.

Sights for Hope is hosting a kids camp for children ages 7 to 14. It's for children with blindness and visual impairments in the Lehigh Valley.

Construction of a neighborhood hospital in the Gilbertsville area will be the health system's first hospital in Montgomery County.

Lowhill Township supervisors denied a final plan for a warehouse owned by Core5 Industrial Partners, which is already in litigation with the township.

City of Allentown mayor Matt Tuerk, City of Bethlehem mayor J. William Reynolds and City of Easton mayor Sal Panto Jr. joined officials from the Bradbury Sullivan LGBT Community Center to film a video for the upcoming 30th annual Lehigh Valley Pride event in August

The new service, run by Landline and American Airlines, connects typical airport gates in Allentown with gates in Philadelphia, like any regional jet.

Ascot Circle Realty is planning a 33-story building that would loom over the 24-story PPL Tower several blocks away. It could be filled with apartments.

The 5th annual contest where entrepreneurs unveil their ideas is a partnership between Lehigh University and Factory LLC.