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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Sands, which owns Sands Bethlehem Casino Resort, is paying a $9 million fine to settle a regulatory investigation that painted a sordid picture of the casino owner's expansion into a gambling mecca in China.The resolution announced Thursday closes a U.S. Securities and...

Some of the most efficient pesticides in the world are completely organic and pose virtually no risk to humans, beyond provoking occasional conniption fits and 911 calls when they get in the house.Bats. They're the only mammals out of the whole vast number of us that can fly, and perhaps the most...

The Steelworkers Archives will be hosting a slide show and panel discussion about the women at Bethlehem Steel Friday at Northampton Community College's south Bethlehem campus.Panel participants will include union women who worked on the shop floor, a wife of a steelworker, a woman who worked...

In the midst of a legal battle that is heading toward mediation, the Lehigh County Authority, the lessee of Allentown's water and sewer systems, has yet to make the first of many semi-annual royalty payments due to the city under a 50-year lease agreement. Half of the $500,000 royalty payment owed...

A line of fast-moving storms downed trees and power lines across the Lehigh Valley Thursday afternoon. A line of showers with strong winds and heavy rain were expected in the area, according to the National Weather Service. The band of storms included wind gusts of up to 50 mph and some areas could...

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s approval rating is tanking as his epic budget fight with the Republican-controlled Legislature has shown no sign of stopping even though the final pieces of a 2015-16 spending plan lapsed into law in March. Wolf’s approval rating among voters dropped 6 percentage points...

The roughly 300 customers of Allied Utility Services will see a 30 percent hike in their sewer bills.The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved the $80,018 rate increase Thursday, cutting in half the amount requested by the sewer companyThe company had originally proposed an increase of...

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Northampton County – A small water company serving one Northampton County community wants to raise customers' bills by 15.5 percent. Utilities Inc.-Westgate has filed with the state Public Utility Commission to increase annual revenue by $427,817. The company calculates if the...

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey tops both his leading Democratic challengers in a new poll released Thursday from Quinnipiac University. Toomey, a Lehigh Valley resident, drew similar margins in two head-to-head matchups: 47 percent to retired Navy admiral Joe Sestak’s 39 percent,...

Rich Rowe spent three long, cold hours Wednesday morning watching the fires he lit around Bechdolt's Orchard in Lower Saucon Township slowly die away and with them what he believes could be the entire plum crop for the season. The orchard owner was among the area farmers who went to great lengths...