Sydney Roach
Reporter/HostSydney Roach is a reporter and host for WPSU with a passion for radio and community stories. She's a graduate of Northern Cambria High School and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
LGBTQ+ topics, environmental conservation, animals and video games are some of her biggest interests.
If you have a story idea in the Central/Northern Pennsylvania region, email sydroach@psu.edu.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections still has not made a decision on whether it will close Rockview state prison, but Rockview has seen the sharpest decrease in inmates of any Pennsylvania state prison over the past year. -
More than three hundred people from across Pennsylvania traveled to Philipsburg Sunday afternoon to protest the Moshannon Valley Processing Center and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which operates the privately-owned facility. Its capacity is 1,876, making it the largest immigration detention facility in the Northeast. -
Penn State DuBois held a ribbon cutting ceremony on campus Thursday for its new practical nursing program, which officials say will help address a nursing shortage in the region. -
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, or PEMA, is hiring a State College company to review the state's response to last month's 911 outage. For more than eight hours, many people across the state could not dial 911 for emergencies. -
Pennsylvania’s rutting season for elk is around the corner. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is encouraging people to view and hear wildlife through the live Elk Cam, which started back up for the year on Friday, August 15. -
Following months of closure and uncertainty, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday that there will be a phased reopening of the campgrounds at Raystown Lake starting on Friday. Susquehannock and Nancy’s Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds will open this week, followed by Seven Points Campground on Friday, September 5. -
There’s a growing nationwide coalition to advocate for federal research funding, including to universities like Penn State. The Trump administration has canceled hundreds of already approved research grants and proposed cutting indirect costs for overhead. -
Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific are looking to merge, which would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. The deal still needs to be approved by regulators, but many in Altoona are closely watching. -
With the state prohibition lifted, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is announcing 13 additional Sunday hunting dates starting in September. -
State and local leaders met at a rural health care summit last week at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford to discuss the challenges health care providers face and possible solutions.
