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The new regional chancellor for Penn State will lead the campuses through change. Menah Pratt hosted community members at a breakfast this week at the Hazleton campus.

With only four weeks until Election Day, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson swung into Northeast Pennsylvania for the third time this year Tuesday. And Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro met Republican challenger Stacy Garrity for a debate Wednesday night.

Today, a battle over the sale of Luzerne County’s railroad tracks is heading to federal court. And we have some mysterious reading recommendations in the latest Bookmarks.

Around 200 people responded to WVIA News’ voter issue survey this year. The survey, while not scientific or representative of WVIA’s audience, provided a sample consistent with results of both state and national polls.

Nonpartisan health policy research, polling and news organization KFF recently conducted a survey with the Associated Press of about 2,000 rural registered voters of all party affiliations. Its results are consistent with local polling on this year's top issues for voters.

One spot for recess in Schuylkill County is unique — but the 30 minutes of daily play will soon be experienced statewide. Starting next school year, all kindergarten through fifth grade students in Pennsylvania will receive 30 minutes of recess daily.

With schools closed and more youth involved, the Bloomsburg Fair provides lessons in leadership, responsibility and community to the several hundred children and teens showing animals this week.

Chris Boland is the director of alumni relations at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He’s been in recovery since 2009. As National Recovery Month comes to a close, Boland wants others struggling with addiction and substance abuse disorder to know it’s never too late to get help.

Scranton Fire Chief John Judge is leaving the department to take a new position in the State College area. And, state lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Monday with a long to-do list and a short session.

Federal Medicaid changes required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027. Pennsylvania is preparing recipients for the changes to come while also updating its own reporting system for the joint federal and state health insurance program.

Officials who oversee Northeast Pennsylvania’s largest airport thought they found a new leader to run it. But they couldn’t finalize a deal to bring in a new executive director, so they have to find someone else.

County officials hope new programs for formerly jailed people will rise from the dust and debris of the former Susquehanna County Correctional Facility.

Today, a new partnership hopes to bolster the state’s rural healthcare workforce. And ICE will continue to run the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County.

In Montrose, the Evans family serves success on the tennis court. Meet them in our latest Beyond the Scoreboard feature.

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A developer wants to turn the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus into part of its golf club and create an event and conference center. The buyer may also lease the campus’ academic space to Misericordia University for graduate studies, workforce development and other learning opportunities.

The organization will study the air quality and health impacts of more than a dozen proposed data center campuses and power plants in Lackawanna County.

Penn State’s Wilkes-Barre campus may soon have a new owner, and the Pa. Department of Health has confirmed the state's fourth measles-related death.

The makers of skill games say they hope state lawmakers agree to regulate the machines by mid-October - bar and store owners will have to remove the machines soon if Harrisburg fails to act.

We have more remembrance of Sept. 11 today - including a production in Wilkes-Barre giving audiences a different perspective. And learn about a study that could lead to new treatments for obesity in the latest News Voices.

Across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania, memories from Sept. 11, 2001 still feel raw. Today, we have the stories of people in our region whose lives changed that day.

Immigrant advocates say immigration enforcement agents targeted a well-known hospital system’s construction project in Danville in the last week. And Pennsylvania’s top election official says voting procedures remain unchanged despite a legal battle over mail-in ballots.

Even as overdose deaths overall have been down this year, county officials say there’s a trend in deaths linked to a dangerous new drug combination on Luzerne County streets.

Since 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has provided hundreds of thousands books to children. Local interest in the program has grown since the legendary singer's passing.

Today, Pa. health insurers want to raise rates next year - but thousands of residents are already grappling with rising costs. And, we’ll learn about controlled burns in the latest News Voices.