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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, which is a Jeopardy-style competition testing knowledge of traffic and transportation engineering. This win...

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...

New Fungus-Based Pest Control Could Help Save Virginia Cotton

In “The Last of Us,” a television and video game series, survivors of an apocalyptic...

Virginia Doctor with Radford Roots to Speak at VA Tech Carilion Commencement

The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) will welcome Sanjay Kishore as keynote speaker...

Cleaveland Touts Getting Back to the Fundamentals

The Botetourt lawyer says one of the reasons he wanted the Republican nomination for the 17th District House of Delegates seat was that “the...

West End Center Gets Makeover

Approaching a 30th anniversary celebration in September, the West End Center on Patterson Avenue in Roanoke received an overdue facelift last weekend. Roanoke County...

No Decision on Fate of Fleming Administrators

The Roanoke City School Board met with Superintendent Dr. Rita Bishop and the school division attorney Monday in a closed meeting, where ramifications of...

Republicans Rally Around Cuccinelli and “Tito” at Annual Bar-B-Que

Saturday, June 13th was a beautiful, sunny day and it served as the backdrop for the Roanoke Valley Republican BBQ at Fallon Park. ...

Our Take: Changes at RCPS are Needed to Help Those Who Need it Most

Roanoke City Schools have been battling for the past few years to make a comeback: closing unneeded schools, shuffling attendance zones, changing superintendents,...

Extension Connection: A Simple and Delicious Way to Enjoy Seasonal Foods

Last weekend I purchased “Roasting Vegetables in a Bag” from a farmer’s market.  In the bag were kale leaves, new potatoes, kohlrabi, green...