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Roanoke Co. Hosts Public Hearing About Real Estate Tax Rate Tue. April 7

The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors will host a public hearing for citizen comments on Tuesday, April 7, at 2:00 concerning 2026 real estate and personal property tax rates in Roanoke...

Carilion Expands Role in Biotechnology Innovation

Carilion Clinic today announced the launch of Usability Works at Carilion Clinic, a new usability engineering...

Statistics Prove: “Yes” Vote Is Pushing The Most Gerrymandered Map In USA

With the final day of voting, April 21, approaching, more Virginians are paying attention to...

Roanoke Animal Cancer Care and Research Center Helps Cat Reach Remission

Cynthia Sutton drives 3 ½ hours every three weeks from Big Stone Gap to Roanoke...

RCPS and Carilion Clinic Announce Long-Term Partnership

Roanoke County Public Schools (RCPS) and Carilion Clinic are proud to announce a long-term partnership...

Book On Bullying Still Rings True Twenty Years Later

by Gene Marrano With schools set to open locally in the next few weeks the topic of bullying is something that is bound to...

Radford Researchers’ Data Leads to Ancient Burial Site

by Ann Brown Radford University professor Rhett Herman and physics major Jared Palmer spent two weeks this summer on a remote beach searching for...

Rescue Mission Receives $80,000 Food Donation

The Rescue Mission received one of its largest food donations in its 63 year history on Tuesday.  Star Valley Provisions, a Roanoke foodservice...

Tomato Festival Offers Pageant, Contests And “TomatOlympics”

by Bill Turner It's the lycopersicon esculentum, the infamous fruit eaten as a vegetable and the third part of the ever-popular BLT sandwich. The...

Long Way From Home

Staff Sgt. Travis Surber, a native of Franklin County and a paratrooper with the 173rd Brigade Combat Team’s Battle Company of the 2nd...

Floydfest Bigger Than Ever

by Gene Marrano FloydFest hoped its 10th anniversary would be an “eXperience,” which is how it was billed, and for the thousands that showed...