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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...

$2.5 Million Bequest Will Help Valley Students Attend Roanoke College

Roanoke College received a .5 million bequest from the estate of the late Mary Ellen Hardin Smith, of Roanoke. This gift, the second...

Rare Ambulance / Hearse Now on Display at VMT

The Virginia Museum of Transportation has announced the arrival of a rare vehicle that holds a unique place in Virginia history -...

City Offers Free Parking Downtown – Steps Up Traffic Enforcement at Valley View

Downtown Parking The City of Roanoke has announced that free parking will be offered through Dec. 31 adjacent to the Historic Roanoke Market in...

Crane Facilitates Move-In of 30,000 lb. MRI Machine

Significant research equipment has been moving into the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute for weeks. A magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) was delivered last...

Fate of Taubman Up in the Air

After spending a year wrapping his arms around the problem of how to keep the Taubman Museum of Art afloat, Executive Director David Micklenberg...

An Unseen Thread

Star-Sentinel columnist Fred First captured this intriguing picture of a maple leaf suspended in air that sweetly reminds us of the simple (yet complex)...