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Sheetz or Wawa? How do you pick a champion? While everyone has their preference, we can all safely agree that the Larry Holmes Drive Wawa in Easton is not the worst-reviewed Sheetz in Pennsylvania.

The area's first Insomnia Cookies store will plant its roots in Bethlehem, becoming an anchor store to the Six10 Flats apartment building on East Third Street. A spokesperson confirmed in an email to LehighValleyNews.com that the store is expected to open this summer.

The fifth location in Pennsylvania, on West Broad Street, is owned by a longtime business owner and mom of four. The eatery’s menu includes coffee, cakes, tarts, donuts, and sandwiches.

The Giant grocery store isn't the only new chain storefront coming to the South Mall. Construction appears to have begun inside the new Burlington storefront that once housed Stein Mart.

After a hearing stretching over five hours and addressing traffic and environmental concerns related to the Easton Commerce Park warehouse, Easton Planning Commission bumped a final decision to their July meeting.

Lehigh County Pension Board voted 4-2 to instruct its investment manager to immediately cease all new investments in Tesla. One county commissioner said Controller Mark Pinsley politicized the issue in an effort to grab headlines.

Scannell Properties offered a presentation on the need for a LERTA tax abatement to build its 1 million square-foot Easton Commerce Park warehouse during Wilson Area School District's Monday board meeting.

Displacing 135 residents and shuttering ground-level businesses until further notice, a monstrous fire at Five10 Flats in South Bethlehem has officials left trying to pick up the pieces.

Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners will consider a request by Fellowship Community retirement community to complete its proposed expansion in three phases instead of one, as was originally proposed. The change is because of lack of funding.

Gov. Josh Shapiro announced that his administration launched a new consumer hotline to help residents better report scams, issues and access help.

Bob's Discount Furniture just off Easton-Nazareth Highway (Route 248) celebrated its grand opening Friday by giving back to two Easton nonprofit organizations.

Bethlehem received $3.7 million in grants to fund improvements to the South Bethlehem Greenway Trail Extension and other projects.

Are developers proposing to build a warehouse, fulfillment center, industrial manufacturing facility or something else in Northampton Borough? Members of the LVPC's Comprehensive Planning Committee want to know.

Easton's workforce housing initiative, which would benefit the "missing middle," will need some more consideration — especially in regard to who will run the program — before it reaches a vote at City Council.

Lehigh Valley Planning Commission is opposed to a request by Waste Management to amend the Plainfield Township zoning ordinance regarding the sanitary landfill in the township.

More Lehigh Valley residents will have another option for an internet provider. Astound announced a multi-million-dollar deal to deepen its roots further into the area and Northeast Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley Pound 4 Pound Boxing founder Paul Pinnock said he promised kids he would find a better place for them to train amid "difficulties" with his current landlord.

Palmer residents and nearby neighbors came out to the supervisors' meeting Monday night to implore the board to take some action on the million-square-foot Easton Commerce Park warehouse project.

Lehigh County Redevelopment Authority is looking for a developer to lead the project to revitalize the Whitehall Township property.

Hologram Zoo Lehigh Valley, only the second such attraction in the country, opened its doors to an enthusiastic crowd at Easton's City Hall on Friday.

Lower Macungie Township's board of commissioners granted preliminary and final land development approval to Allentown-based landscaper Western Lehigh Services at their July 17, 2025 meeting.

A $300,000 grant from the city would “unlock” almost $1 million in other funding for the Downtown Allentown Alliance, according to one of the fledgling nonprofit's leaders.