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The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Penn State research assistants are employees who can unionize, rejecting an appeal by the university to exclude research assistants from a graduate student employee union.
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Thursday, October 29, 3 p.m. & Friday, October 30, 8 p.m. on WPSU. ProPublica’s investigative podcast “Paper Trail” uncovers tapes of a bureaucrat quietly reshaping our federal government; and investigates the Trump administration’s effort to find the alleged hundreds of thousands of noncitizen voters the president claims are skewing U.S. elections.
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WPSU explores what a facility fee is, why hospital outpatient clinics charge them and what’s being done at the state level to protect people against surprise bills from facility fees.
On Halloween Night, hear an eerie mix of music and stories on Fright Night. At 8:00, hear an episode of the public radio series, Spooked. Then at 9:00, The Mighty Wiggus is your host for the annual Halloween edition of The Local Groove. And from 10:00 to midnight, a ghost host brings you an eerie Halloween soundscape of music and stories. Join us for Fright Night, October 31 from 8:00 p.m. until midnight on WPSU-FM.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. After you cast your vote, join WPSU that evening for NPR's special live coverage of the 2026 midterm elections, with updates from the WPSU news team. Special coverage beings November 3 at 8 p.m. on WPSU-FM.
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In her poem "Hurricane Season," Monica Prince counsels herself to stand strong in the face of adversity. -
The candidates for Pennsylvania’s 79th state House district debated for almost an hour and a half Sunday in the Altoona Grand Hotel about a variety of issues, including data center development, skill games regulations and how federal policy is impacting people locally.
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You can hear the locally-hosted WPSU Folk Show every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday nights from 10 to midnight on WPSU-FM.
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The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said they are working under the presumption that the president will seek to justify election interference by alleging fraud. -
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration has to continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons as litigation on efforts to change the policy continues. -
Lab studies have shown that psychedelics like psilocybin can lower inflammation and may be protective for a range of illnesses. Now, researchers are publishing some of the first data in humans that signals this holds potential for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease. -
A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
The Local Groove, Saturdays at 9 p.m. on WPSU, features music written and recorded by musicians right here in central and northern Pennsylvania.
During Cartober, when you donate your scary old car, truck, motorcycle, RV, or boat to WPSU, it will have a wonderful afterlife supporting public radio (no bones about it). We'll even pick it up! So go ahead, ghost that old car. Click below for details.