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Farm Credit Opens 2025 Agricultural Grant Applications

August 4, 2025

Fralin Researchers Uncover How Immunotherapy Impacts Leukemia Cell Environment

Virginia Tech Uncovers Millipede Compounds with Drug Potential

Youngkin Marks World Day Against Trafficking

Youngkin Announces Grant Program for Farmers and Timber Owners Impacted by Hurricane Helene

News

AI Boom Strains Energy Grid and Water, VA Tech Expert Warns

July 30, 2025

The unseen infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t digital — it’s physical: massive data centers filled with thousands of computer servers. As the popularity of AI tools continues to grow, it has triggered a once-in-a-generation construction boom for larger and more powerful data centers. Now, the recently announced AI...

Youngkin Reports General Fund Revenues for Fiscal Year 2025

July 30, 2025

But first, pizza: VA Tech team creates assistive robotics that can make you a meal

July 29, 2025

Fralin Researchers Uncover Promising Drug Combo for Hard-to-Treat Cancers

July 29, 2025

Youngkin Announces Virginia Veterans Network Tops 30,000 Registered Users

July 29, 2025

Youngkin Announces $5.4 million in Grants to Revitalize Downtown Development

July 29, 2025

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Arts / Events Etc.

Tavern Stage Summer Music Series at Explore Park – Friday, August 15

August 5, 2025

Roanoke County’s Tavern Stage Summer Music Series returns to Explore Park on Friday, August 15, with the fourth concert of the season, featuring Creedence...

Highland County Fair Returns August 27–30 with Family Fun, Traditions, and New Attractions

August 5, 2025

John Pelham Program & Book Signing at Virginia Museum of the Civil War

August 1, 2025

Touch-a-Truck Comes Back to Roanoke County’s Green Hill Park

July 30, 2025

Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival Announces 10th Anniversary

July 30, 2025

Business

Youngkin Announces Record-Setting Tourism Spending, $35.1B in Virginia in 2024

August 6, 2025

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) announced that Virginia’s tourism industry generated a record high $35.1 billion in visitor spending in 2024,...

Youngkin Highlights Strong Growth in Virginia Job Openings and Hiring

July 25, 2025

Youngkin Announces AstraZeneca Selects Virginia for Multi-Billion Dollar Manufacturing Center

July 22, 2025

Youngkin Announces June Jobs Surveys

July 21, 2025

Virginia Tourism Corporation Announces Catherine Marshburn as Vice President of Marketing

July 17, 2025

Columnists

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part II

August 6, 2025

So, where has Hamas been getting food to feed themselves? They have been simply stealing or hijacking it from the U.N. collaborationists and food aid...

BOB BROWN: What’s Fitness Got To Do With It?

August 6, 2025

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part I

August 5, 2025

How ‘Quality of Life’ Is Changing How Americans Work and Vacation

August 4, 2025

BECKY MAUPIN: Riding the Wave of Back-to-School

August 4, 2025

BOB BROWN: “These Forever Children…”

July 30, 2025

FRED FIRST: Essence of Summer: Fireflies

July 29, 2025

Commentary

Conforming to Trump Tax Law Would Save Virginians $1.4 Billion More

August 4, 2025

Should the 2026 Virginia General Assembly choose to conform state tax laws to the full set of new tax rules at the federal level,...

Union Rules: Welcome to the Hotel California

July 24, 2025

Ed Feulner (1941-2025): A National Leader with a Virginian Heart

July 21, 2025

Dominion’s Gas-Dependent Energy Plan neither Endorsed nor Rejected by Scc

July 17, 2025

Closing Virginia’s Education Gaps: Funding, Choice, and Accountability

July 1, 2025

Last Week Proves Again Wind and Solar Cannot Take the Heat

June 30, 2025

VA Elections Should Be About Virginia’s Future — Not a Referendum on President Trump

June 27, 2025

COMMUNITY

The Roanoke Star - August 6, 2025

VDOT Urges Drivers to Stay Alert in School Zones as Students Return

With more than one million Virginia students headed back to school this month, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is calling on everyone to be cautious around school...

The Roanoke Star - August 5, 2025

Blue Ridge TWENTY28’s Olivia Cummins Wins Littleton Twilight

Roanoke, Va. After a few much-needed weeks at home in Roanoke, it’s been a blessing to slow down, breathe in the Blue Ridge Mountain air, and enjoy the...

The Roanoke Star - August 1, 2025

Mic Drop Club in Roanoke to Help Women Build Public Speaking Confidence

A new women’s public speaking club is launching locally with one clear mission: to help more women develop their voices and confidently step up to the mic—whether that’s...

The Roanoke Star - July 31, 2025

Social Security Anniversary Celebration Events to Be Held in Roanoke

More than 1.6 million Virginians rely on Social Security to pay their bills, and AARP Virginia is holding several events in Roanoke to celebrate the program’s 90th anniversary. On...