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VA Tech Earns National Recognition for Community Engagement

Virginia Tech has been awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a national recognition highlighting the university’s sustained, institutionwide commitment to building trusted, reciprocal partnerships that address...

Roanoke Valley Greenway Coordinator Finds New Home at Regional Commission

The Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission and the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission are pleased to announce that...

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Selects New Chair

During their organizational meeting yesterday, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors selected Tammy E. Shepherd...

Cancer Prevention: Can Future-Focused Thinking Help Smokers Quit?

As the warning label on every pack of cigarettes tells us, smoking is harmful. It’s...

VDOT Lifts Lane Closures for Holiday Travel Across Virginia

If you’re headed out to do some last-minute holiday shopping, the Virginia Department of Transportation...

Transportation Museum Announces New Exhibit

“Fueling Progress: 100 years of the gas station, roadside attractions and Virginia on the move” The Virginia Museum of Transportation has announced the opening of...

Students Compete in NASA Sponsored Robotics Competition

A Virginia Tech College of Engineering student team is building a six-wheeled lunar robot and will travel to Houston’s Johnson Space Center in June...

Kiwanis Unveil 2014 Unsung Hero Award Winners

Sunday night at the Salem Civic Center, the Roanoke, Salem and Botetourt Kiwanis Clubs handed out what is considered the most prestigious awards in...

Clinic Among the First in Virginia to Implant New Heart Valve

When someone has Aortic Stenosis (hardening of the arteries), the aortic valve becomes stiff and limits the amount of blood that can travel through...

Vinton Plans for “Pocket Park,” Other Projects

The Town of Vinton doesn’t have much green space downtown – and it’s planning to fix that. Vinton is drawing up plans for what...

Retiring Moran Says Congress is ‘Underpaid’

With nothing to lose — except perhaps sympathy from any American making less than $174,000 a year — retiring Democratic Virginia Congressman Jim Moran...