Sydney Roach
Reporter/HostSydney Roach is an award-winning reporter and host for WPSU since 2023 with a passion for radio and community stories. She's a graduate of Northern Cambria High School and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
Before working in public media, she worked two years as a News Producer at WTAJ-TV where she coordinated breaking news coverage of a major gas explosion and the accidental killing of a correctional officer.
If you have a story idea in the Central/Northern Pennsylvania region, email sydroach@psu.edu.
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Clearfield County Commissioners are extending a contract for ICE to run the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, which is the largest ICE immigration detention facility in the Northeast. -
The Pavilion, a long-term care facility at the former hospital in Bradford will close on or before December 1, according to Kaleida Health officials. -
Union staff in the Bellefonte Area Education Association say they could go on strike in mid-October after voting Monday for a strike notice. -
Two more people have died in Pennsylvania’s growing measles outbreak, bringing the total number of measles related deaths to four — but, a public federal dashboard still shows no measles deaths so far this year. -
Officials with Pennsylvania's Department of Health are reporting the fourth measles-related death in the Commonwealth. -
Following several months of negotiations and a strike, unionized workers at the Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College have a new three-year contract that includes 3% wage increases in the first two years and a 2% increase in the final year. -
Amid a growing measles outbreak, Pennsylvania officials reported the third measles-related death in the state so far this year in Jefferson County. -
The National Park Service held two major ceremonies Friday at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville in recognition of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. -
Unionized workers at the Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College and the hospital administration said Thursday the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. -
As summer comes to an end, many people are wondering when or if the rides will ever re-open at Lakemont Park in Altoona, as this is the third year in a row the rides, including the iconic Leap-the-Dips wooden coaster, did not open.
