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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...

Virginia Tech Researchers Unlock Clues to Better Battery Design

It’s (going to be) electric. But how soon? How quickly our society can maximize the benefit of electrification hinges on finding cheaper, higher performance batteries...

Youngkin’s Budget Boosts Education Funding by $452M

Spending has increased 53% per student since the pandemic. The Strong-Dynamic-Winning-Together budget increases funding to school divisions by nearly half a billion. Anyone peddling “cuts”...

Virginia Interfaith Names Rev. Dr. LaKeisha Cook as New Executive Director

The Board of Directors of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) is pleased to announce that Reverend Dr. LaKeisha Cook has been appointed as...

Burying power lines: A costly but crucial solution to prevent outages and wildfires

Severe weather events have left millions of people without power for days, sometimes weeks or months, raising questions about whether the United States power...

Study Shows Frustration Impacts Performance of Search and Rescue Dogs

Search and rescue dogs are heroes in fur coats, using their incredible sense of smell to find lost hikers, disaster victims, and missing people....

Nighttime Lane, Ramp Closures on I-81 Near Salem Set for April 4–5 & 11–12

SALEM – As part of the Interstate 81 widening project in Roanoke County near Salem, nighttime lane and ramp closures are scheduled during nighttime hours...