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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...

A New Year’s “Revolution” – Roanoke 100 Miler Returns For a Third Time

Joe Hanning, the marketing and outreach coordinator for Roanoke City Parks and Recreation, is hoping that the third incarnation of the Roanoke 100 Miler...

No, You’re Not At The Airport . . . That’s LewisGale

Similar to the airline industry, LewisGale Regional Health System is now expediting the check-in process for all four of its hospital emergency rooms with...

Roanoke Student Appointed as Page for 2014 General Assembly

Thirty four young Virginians arrived on Capitol Square the morning of January 5 for orientation and training in preparation to serve in the Senate...

Roanoke County Looking for Bands

Bandfest 2014 wants you – if you belong to a teen garage band that is. Bandfest is part of the annual YADAPP (youth alcohol...

Salem Delegate Habeeb Goes Back to Work

8th District delegate Greg Habeeb, who covers Salem, parts of Roanoke County, Montgomery County and Craig County headed back to Richmond this week as...

Babcock Named Virginia Tech Athletic Director

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger has announced that Whit Babcock will become the university’s next athletic director and will formally introduce him to the...