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Inside Fontainebleau Las Vegas: The Bold New Icon Transforming the Standard of 5-Star Luxury

Fontainebleau in Miami Beach is easily one of the most iconic and luxurious hotels you can book in Florida. It’s been one of the famous landmarks of Miami Beach...

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

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) announced that Virginia’s tourism industry generated a...

Youngkin Highlights Strong Growth in Virginia Job Openings and Hiring

Yesterday, Governor Youngkin announced that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) May 2025 Job...

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

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, and...

Youngkin Announces June Jobs Surveys

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced last Friday that according to BLS CES data, nonfarm employment decreased...

Happy’s Flea Market Thrives in Good Times and Bad

Assessing how business is doing in the current economy, Happy’s Flea Market General Manager Harvey Murdoch is upbeat, saying “I think that we’re...

Bubblecake is a Sweet-Tooth’s Delight

It’s sort of ironic that Lisa Rusk’s parents, Marilyn and Harvey Diamond, wrote a best-selling diet and lifestyle book in the 1980’s, “Fit...

NS Thoroughbreds Strive to Make a Difference

Once the biggest employer in town when its operations were headquartered here, Norfolk Southern still casts a long shadow over the Roanoke Valley....

Angels of Assisi Looks to Expand

Nearly a decade ago, the Angels of Assisi animal hospital in Roanoke began life as a mobile clinic.  Staffed by a veterinarian, a...

Swiss Entrepreneur to Deliver Keynote Address at Virginia Tech

Stephan Bieri, an internationally-recognized consultant specializing in scientific evaluation and intellectual property and chairman of the scientific advisory board at Virginia Tech's Virginia...

Downtown Vendor Carts on Hold

With the two-cent meals tax pinching the already teetering downtown restaurants, Councilman Court Rosen thought vendor carts should be delayed a couple years...