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VA Tech Celebrates Aspire! Award Recipients for Service, Leadership, and Impact

In the final Aspire! Awards ceremony of the 2024-25 academic year, Student Affairs celebrated students and faculty who embrace service as a path to growth, progress, and empowerment — for themselves and...

Youngkin Announces Another Expansion of the Virginia Permit Transparency Website

Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the addition of two new Virginia agencies to be included...

VA Tech Wins First-Ever Southern District Traffic Bowl

Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering students are celebrating a standout performance in this year’s Traffic Bowl,...

State Approves Carilion Clinic Kidney Transplant Program

The Virginia Division of Certificate of Public Need (DCOPN) has approved Carilion Clinic’s application to...

VA Tourism Corporation Announces Development of New Statewide Strategic Plan

Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) has announced that it will develop a new Statewide Strategic Tourism...

Area Doctors Clear the Way for Cataract Patients

Many people in southwest Virginia are seeing better than they have for some time, thanks to an initiative by several area eye doctors who...

Bond Award Seen As Conflict of Interest for City Council Member

Note: Since publication of this article on Dec 11th, Councilman Trinkle has withdrawn the subject property from consideration for receiving funds as part of...

New Owners of Fincastle Church Building Continue Historic Tradition

Not much appears changed on the exterior of the former Fincastle Baptist Church but for Wendy and Bob Jones, a lot has changed on...

Lenny Marcus Trio Spreads Comfort and Joy

It may have been cold and pouring rain outside.  But on the mezzanine inside the Roanoke Main Library on Tuesday evening, folks were enjoying...

Legislators, School Board and Council Meet to Press Programs

Local control over the start of the school year was top on the agenda for Roanoke City Schools according to school board member Lori...

When the Light at the End of the Tunnel is Not an Oncoming Train

She took piano lessons when she was nine in Blacksburg; the teacher talked about how language is like music. That’s when the serious...