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Roanoke Co. Hosts Public Hearing About Real Estate Tax Rate Tue. April 7

The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors will host a public hearing for citizen comments on Tuesday, April 7, at 2:00 concerning 2026 real estate and personal property tax rates in Roanoke...

Carilion Expands Role in Biotechnology Innovation

Carilion Clinic today announced the launch of Usability Works at Carilion Clinic, a new usability engineering...

Statistics Prove: “Yes” Vote Is Pushing The Most Gerrymandered Map In USA

With the final day of voting, April 21, approaching, more Virginians are paying attention to...

Roanoke Animal Cancer Care and Research Center Helps Cat Reach Remission

Cynthia Sutton drives 3 ½ hours every three weeks from Big Stone Gap to Roanoke...

RCPS and Carilion Clinic Announce Long-Term Partnership

Roanoke County Public Schools (RCPS) and Carilion Clinic are proud to announce a long-term partnership...

Blue Ridge Parkway Resumes Winter Operations

With the enactment of the federal governments continuing resolution, staff along the Blue Ridge Parkway resumed regular winter operations beginning Monday, January 28, 2019....

Senate Panel Rejects Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling

A bipartisan bill to ban oil drilling off Virginia’s coast was shot down on a 9-6 vote in a Senate committee Thursday. The Senate Committee...

Delivery Team Works to Shape Innovation Campus

Leaders from across the university are actively working to shape and plan the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus. Since the November announcement of the Amazon headquarters in...

Students Develop Life-saving Device

This past March, Andy Cohen was caught in one of the worst snowstorms of the year. The Crozet, Virginia, native who graduated in May...

Socialist Lawmaker Wants to Repeal Right-to-Work Law

The General Assembly’s self-described socialist member is sponsoring legislation to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which says employees can’t be forced to join a...

Senate Panel Kills Stricter Seat-belt Law

Virginia will continue to have one of the weakest seat-belt laws in the country after a Senate committee killed a bill to require rear-seat...