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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Agostino Abbatiello, the alleged ringleader of a cocaine trafficking operation at two Penn State fraternities, is out of jail, after a judge reversed a decision denying him bail. -
Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, Stacy Garrity, made a campaign stop Thursday in Altoona to talk about her plan to address affordability. -
Unionized workers at the Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College and the hospital administration are going back to the bargaining table in September, with the two sides still in disagreement over pay raises after a five-day strike in July failed to lead to an agreement. -
Newly unsealed documents from State College police say one of the alleged ringleaders named in a cocaine trafficking ring investigation at Penn State accepted payment on Venmo for cocaine using his own name. -
There are now reported measles cases in Warren, Elk, Jefferson, Clearfield, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties. -
Pennsylvania's Attorney General says more than a dozen current or former Penn State students at the University Park campus are facing drug trafficking charges. -
PA Game Commission to end Deputy Game Warden program, partially due to recent Supreme Court decisionThe Pennsylvania Game Commission is ending its Deputy Game Warden program on September 1, 2026, affecting about 140 wardens across the state. -
The power is back on at the Logan Valley Mall in Altoona, following an outage in one section of the mall that lasted for more than a month, but, mall workers say the power outage shined a light on ongoing issues. -
Federal investigators are still looking into the cause of a train derailment Tuesday at the Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, which marks the third time a derailment happened this year at or near the national historic landmark. -
PennDOT says it’s closing a section of the right lane of College Avenue in State College until further notice because of a sinkhole. According to a PennDOT release, the sinkhole formed near the intersection of College and Pugh Streets.
