2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (1337+ words) READING " In July 2025, Albright College announced it had ended its most recent fiscal year with a $10 million surplus, part of what officials called a "remarkable financial turnaround." But a newly released audit found that the projection was overly optimistic and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (960+ words) Only 3 days remain to hit our Spring Member Drive goal. Time is running out. Give now & get it DOUBLED before it's too late " STATE COLLEGE " Spotlight PA and two other news organizations are suing leaders of the Penn State Board…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1402+ words) Just a few years ago, America's public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: "The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (440+ words) Help us raise $5 K for Spotlight PA on Election Day before polls close! We can't continue our work without you " Hi everyone " I'm A. J. Rao, the new Penn State investigative reporter for Spotlight PA's State College regional bureau. I'm excited to…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (283+ words) What was your yearbook superlative? Best dressed? Quietest? Most athletic? How about " most likely to ace PA Local's latest trivia quiz? This isn't high school, so we're not asking you to vote on the "class clown" or "cutest couple" of…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (1230+ words) ARDMORE " For high school senior Aliyah Pack, getting distracted during school is the norm. Kids in her Pennsylvania school district use i Pads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own Mac Books in eighth…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1009+ words) READING " Do students have the right to leave school as a protest tactic? The U. S. Supreme Court established in Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969 that neither students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (376+ words) Access to news and information from a trustworthy source is more important than ever. Our neighbors deserve to know what's happening in their communities, and not just if they can afford it. We make our essential journalism available at no…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (222+ words) Hello! I'm Melissa P'rez-Carrillo, and I'm excited to join Spotlight PA's State College regional bureau as the local accountability reporter. My background in computer science and math eventually came in handy as I dabbled in data journalism, using coding to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (521+ words) This week's Community Spotlight honoree is Gina Fiore, 23, who is employed as a paralegal at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA. She also volunteers as an English as a second language teacher at the Mother Veronica Resource Center, a Reading-based educational…...