SCRANTON, Pa. — When Newswatch 16 was hanging out with the Scranton Santa Parade committee earlier this week, organizers told us there would be no helium balloons this year because of a shortage of ...

Hospital supply chain leaders are concerned that the nation’s sale of its helium stockpile could worsen an existing supply shortage, NBC News reported Jan. 25. Helium is the coldest element on Earth ...

Q: I read that there is a limited supply of helium, which is important for MRI machines and other industrial uses. So why do we waste it filling party balloons? Although helium is the second most ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- What's a special birthday party without balloons? That's what Juanita Chapman, of Wilkins Township, thought as she planned her husband's special celebration. "It's his 50th, and I ...

Hearts are heavy these days in the world of lighter-than-air helium balloons. A helium shortage is making balloon prices rise faster than a helium balloon itself after a kid lets it go. "I don't want ...

I don’t know what it is about balloons, but they make an ordinary day feel special, which is probably why they are so popular for celebrations like birthday parties. If you went to a store to have ...

The way we get helium — which is used for everything from lifting rockets and balloons to cooling nuclear reactors and the machines used in an estimated 40 million MRI scans done each year across the ...

In announcing earlier this month that 45 Party City stores will close, CEO James M. Harrison also remarked on the company’s financial shortfalls in balloon sales, blaming the ongoing helium shortage.

Watching helium gas lift balloons into the air is a lot of fun — or perhaps a tragedy if that balloon belonged to a small child who let it go. And, who hasn’t sipped the helium gas from a balloon and ...