Local News for State College and Central Pennsylvania

WPSU Jazz Archive - October 9, 2026

Greg Petersen

An archive recording of the WPSU Jazz Show as broadcast on Friday, October 9, 2026, hosted by Greg Petersen.

With the closing of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre County, a coalition of organizations is calling on the state to involve the public in any decisions about the future of its nearly 5,800 acres of land.

PA Secretary of Ag weighs in on Rockview land

Anne Danahy

Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding would like to see the land at the now-closed State Correctional Institution at Rockview stay in agriculture.

The WPSU studios in State College, Pa. on Oct. 29, 2025.

WITF VP named new GM ‘to shape WPSU’s next chapter’

Emily Reddy

WITF Vice President and Chief Audience Officer Fred Vigeant has been named the next general manager of WPSU, starting on Oct. 26.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, Penn State Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and others marked the beginning of construction of the Animal Diagnostic Lab expansion on Oct. 5, 2026.

Penn State, PA Dept. of Ag say Animal Diagnostic Lab expansion will protect farming, public health

Anne Danahy

Penn State broke ground on a $65 million expansion of its Animal Diagnostic Lab Monday, a project Pennsylvania's secretary of agriculture said will help the state continue to protect farming and public health.

The Bellefonte Area High School is one of several places that will be affected if workers in the Bellefonte Area Educators Association go on strike.

Potential teacher strike at Bellefonte schools is less than a week away

Sydney Roach

A potential strike at the Bellefonte Area School District is less than a week away, as union workers and school administrators still did not come to an agreement after a more than six hour bargaining session Monday night.

Mitchell Smith, author of "The Great Perceptual Divide: Identity and Democracy in the U.S. and Britain

Opinion

Democracy Works: How identity fuels political divides

Jenna Spinelle

From Brexit to the 2020 election, the United States and the United Kingdom seem more divided than ever as media, political polarization, and other factors combine to form what Mitchell Smith describes as "The Great Perceptual Divide."