The rate of middle and high school students who vape is declining across the United States, with Central Pennsylvanian districts and experts seeing similar trends.
For the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, visitors can learn more about Pennsylvania’s experience that day at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg. The exhibit, “Witness to History: Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001,” focuses on United Flight 93, which was hijacked before passengers fought back against the attackers. The plane crashed into a field in Shanksville, Somerset County.
Special education costs across Pennsylvania are rising, while state funding hasn’t kept up. As a result, districts across the commonwealth are relying on increasing property taxes to cover the gap.
Central Pennsylvania’s Bhutanese and Nepali communities are grieving after last week’s flash floods in Nepal and China killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more missing.
Many animal shelters and rescues across Central Pennsylvania and the United States are at or near capacity as cat populations surge this summer and adoptions fail to keep pace.
The remains of 12 Native American and Alaskan Native children who died while attending Carlisle Indian Industrial School will be returned to their tribes following their disinterment.
Central Pennsylvania’s food banks are seeing increasing demand following eligibility changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that are kicking people off the program and causing confusion. Pennsylvanians enrolled in SNAP decreased by 11% in the past year, from 1.96 million in May 2025 to 1.75 million as of June 2026, according to the state Department of Human Services.
Central Pennsylvania, along with most of the country, will see a partial lunar eclipse tonight that will give the moon a reddish color often called a “blood moon.”
The LGBT Center of Central PA has named an interim executive director as it works to stabilize its finances amid declining revenue and uncertainty around federal funding. Current director Amber Barnes, who was in the role for two years, will leave the position Friday, and Chief Financial Officer Michael Tschop will take over.