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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...

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...

State Approves Carilion Clinic Kidney Transplant Program

The Virginia Division of Certificate of Public Need (DCOPN) has approved Carilion Clinic’s application to establish a kidney transplant program. The program will be...

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 Plan designed to guide Virginia’s tourism growth, sharpen the...

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 fungal pandemic struggle to survive after the collapse of...

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 for its May 10 commencement ceremony. A physician and health...

VA Tech Research Flags End of Unproctored Testing in AI Era

Increasingly beleaguered by artificial intelligence (AI)-based cheating, unproctored testing is now completely vulnerable to reasoning large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT. A Virginia Tech...