Musikfest kicks off in Bethlehem, launching a 10-day celebration of concerts that organizers hope will draw record-breaking crowds to the steel town.

Bethlehem’s Musikfest returns for 2025 with live music on stages of many sizes. More than 300 performances will be held from July 31 to Aug. 10 on both the north and south sides of the city. Here is ...

STEELTON - Workers at the now-idled steel mill here are down, certainly. But not yet out. At least that was the vibe at a last-day union hall wake for the longtime Bethlehem Steel plant that, as ...

Ultimately, though, U.S. Steel would have the last laugh, so to speak. Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001 and was officially dissolved two years later.

By Greg Alvarez The view from my freshman dorm window at Lehigh University felt foreign— Bethlehem Steel Mill’s rusting blast furnaces. Abandoned for nearly a decade at that time, it was hard ...