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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 a Fairfax County bus stop with multiple knife wounds to the upper body. Minter...

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...

Carilion Clinic Foundation Establishes Children’s Miracle Network Endowed Chair in Pediatric Medicine

In partnership with Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) of Southwest Virginia, the Carilion Clinic Foundation has...

Virginia Western Community College To Break Ground on First New Academic Building in Two Decades

Virginia Western Community College, which serves more than 13,000 students from the Roanoke Valley and beyond, has broken ground on a new 68,000 square...

Parade To Mark Entrance Of Virginia Tech Corps Of Cadets Class Of 2014

Three hundred fifty-four new members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets reported to the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg on Aug. 14, one...

Mission Possible: One Million Pounds of Recycling and Counting

It’s time to think outside the box when it comes to donating items to the Roanoke Rescue Mission. The 4th St. homeless shelter and...

Couple Shows Off Dance Steps

What Dave Spangler calls a love story began ten years ago when he first met his future wife Donna at the Roanoke Airport,...

Council Gets Read the Voting Rights Act

Moving three precincts as the result of a fire station sale and Reserve Avenue building demolition became an hour-long civil rights discussion at...

Hokie Voices Pump Up The Volume In Roanoke

Bill Roth, the play-by-play voice of the Hokies and his side-kick, Mike Burnop, greeted a large group of fans last week as Steve’s FM...