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Dels. Rasoul, Franklin Join Dems to Vote Selves 278% Pay Raise

The Democrat-led General Assembly voted in recent days to raise the salary for State Delegates and Senators to $50,000 per year. Virginia has always had a General Assembly made of...

While Del. Rasoul Condemns ICE, Illegal Alien Stabs Fredericksburg Woman To Death At Fairfax Bus Stop

On Monday, February 23, Stephanie Minter, 41, of Fredericksburg, was found stabbed to death at...

Catawba Sustainability Center Expands Applied Research in Roanoke County

When Matthew Wagner walks the fields of the Catawba Sustainability Center, he’s thinking about more...

VA Tech Study Identifies Key Exercise Enzyme That Could Inform Diabetes Treatment

Researchers have investigated the role of a certain enzyme in regulating energy in muscle and...

Roanoke City Public Schools Receives $450K State Grant to Build First Solar-Powered Microgrid at any K-12 School in Virginia

Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS) has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of...

Jefferson College To House Resident Students At Patrick Henry Building

Jefferson College of Health Sciences (JCHS) has entered into an agreement to house its Fall 2011 resident students in the Patrick Henry Hotel...

Rob Lalka of State Department Addresses United Way’s Catalysts

At just 28 years of age, Rob Lalka, Global Partnerships Liaison in the State Department (not to mention a distinguished Cave Spring, Yale and...

11,500 Roanokers Participate in Rescue Mission’s Drumstick Dash

Over 11,500 Roanokers "moved their feet so others could eat" last Thursday as part of the fifth annual StellarOne Drumstick Dash to benefit the...

Junior League Paints for Community Development

The Junior League of Roanoke Valley (JLRV) picked up paint brushes and drills to renovate an unused room for the Greenvale School last week....

Goodlatte Says GSA Has Violated Law

Congressman Bob Goodlatte has sent a follow-up letter to Martha Johnson, the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) calling on the GSA...

Operation Christmas Child: Good Fun with a Mission

Who wouldn’t mind getting out of class for a bit to stuff brightly wrapped shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for needy kids?  For the third...