PPL Corporation

FOR POLICE ACADEMY Step into the shoes of local law enforcement. What: The second annual Lehigh County Citizens' Police Academy is accepting registrations. When: Eight-week course, 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 27. Where: Public hearing room,...

PPL Electric Utilities Corporation is closing Route 314 in Pocono and Tobyhanna townships, between Routes 611 and 940, Jan. 5-May 30 for the installation of several large underground utility vaults. The posted detour will route traffic over Routes 940 and...

Utility crews have restored power to nearly everyone who lost it during the blustery weather on New Year's Eve. About 2,400 customers lost power in the Lehigh Valley area Wednesday as powerful winds swept through the region, a PPL Electric Utilities...

Olympus America usually gives its employees a $25 gift certificate to offset the cost of a Thanksgiving turkey and some trimmings, followed by a holiday party in December. This year, however, the Center Valley-based camera and medical- equipment...

A Dauphin County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and other charges in a house fire that killed two of his children, one day after his wife pleaded guilty to criminal homicide. Ryan Donachy, 26, of Swatara Township...

Pennsylvania residents will be overcharged by $5 billion over the next few years because of a flaw in the deregulated electricity market, state officials have alleged in a complaint to federal regulators. The 211-page complaint, filed last week by a...

Greed -- the word was used over and over to describe PPL Corp. at a packed, four-hour public hearing Wednesday in south Bethlehem. John Boyer of Macungie tried to be polite. He said PPL's behavior amounted to "a five-letter word that begins with G and...

The 2010 rate hike looming over PPL Electric Utilities customers keeps getting bigger. According to the latest calculations announced Thursday, the hike for residential ratepayers grew by another 2 percent since October 2007. That means the price of...

The future the electric industry has been working to create for itself has collided with the political realities of today. Deregulated markets, new nuclear power plants and more high-tension power lines -- that is what big energy companies nationwide...

Electricity deregulation critics who testified at a legislative hearing in Harrisburg Tuesday spent little time talking about the matter at hand -- extending rate caps. Instead, they touted a variety of less dramatic but potentially permanent measures to...

Sen. Lisa Boscola will testify in favor of extending electricity rate caps at a public hearing in Harrisburg next week. Boscola, D-Northampton, announced her role in a press release Tuesday, a day after meeting with Gov. Ed Rendell. The Democratic...

PPL Corp. announced a record annual profit on Thursday, posting numbers that dwarfed the record the company set just a year earlier. The Allentown energy company earned $1.3 billion, or $3.40 per share, in 2007, compared to $865 million, or $2.24 per...