Roger DuPuis | WVIA News
Deputy Editor / ReporterDeputy editor/reporter Roger DuPuis joined WVIA News in February 2024. His 25 years of experience in journalism include work as a reporter and editor in Pennsylvania and New York. His beat assignments over those decades have ranged from breaking news, local government and politics, to business, healthcare, and transportation. He has a lifelong interest in urban transit, particularly light rail, and authored a book about Philadelphia's trolley system.
He has won statewide awards for his work at WVIA, including his stories about Pennsylvania’s new distracted driving law and the impact of pharmacy benefit managers on community pharmacies around the state, and was part of the WVIA News team that received a 2025 Keystone Professional Media Award for Excellence in Reporting on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. His contribution to that effort was a story on women in Pennsylvania politics.
You can email Roger at rogerdupuis@wvia.org
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The snow is over, the cold is not. The National Weather Service Binghamton, N.Y. office says Northeast Pennsylvania is in for a stretch of extreme cold, with wind chills in the negative numbers starting Monday night. -
The National Weather Service says precipitation is expected to taper off between 11 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. Monday morning, but more snow could fall across Northeast Pa. on Monday. -
In this week's Sports Voices, Roger and Bob talk in the WVIA Podcast Studio about the girls basketball season so far, next Tuesday's Wilkes-Barre Area vs. Pittston Area boys basketball matchup in the Wyoming Valley Conference, the rise of girls wrestling, and how the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are at the top of the AHL's Atlantic Division. -
WVIA News visited the Pennsylvania Farm Show last week to report on the richness of the annual event as it happened, but also with an eye toward larger trends in Keystone State agriculture, from potatoes to rodeo riding and bird flu. -
In this week's Sports Voices, we debut our podcast as a video feature, talk about the high school basketball season, Scranton native Jake McCarthy being traded to the Colorado Rockies and more. -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did a whirlwind tour of the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg on Thursday. State Ag Secretary Russell Redding said he -
Local foundations that had financially stepped up to keep Moses Taylor Hospital and Regional Hospital of Scranton open ended payments in August, U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan said Friday. Closure of the hospitals was 'imminent,' the lawmaker said, but he and partners including state Rep. Bridget Kosierowski worked to keep the doors open. The foundations replied that the arrangement was for 90 days only, and there was no request for additional funding at that time. -
In this week's Sports Voices, WVIA's Sarah Hofius Hall and Roger DuPuis preview Keystone Edition on legendary football coach Mark Duda, plus Fox56's Bob Ide checks in with a look ahead to the Old Forge and Riverside boys basketball game on Tuesday. -
SPORTS VOICES: Crestwood Lady Comets face off against the Hazleton Area Lady Cougars in this week’s high school hoops, plus the end of the Penn State football season begins the Matt Campbell era and Ide looks forward to FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. Also, could there be an Eagles Super Bowl appearance? -
2025 was a year in which violent crimes stunned cities and rural areas of Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania, federal immigration policies led to controversial deportations, and a bewildering theft shocked a Luzerne County community. But it also was a year for progress in the area of transporation, as WVIA's Roger DuPuis explains.
