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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 Definitive Season for Virginia Oysters

For everything in the Chesapeake, there is a season: for geese to descend on the crest of the fall wind from Canada, for crabs...

“Canstruction” Coming to Southwest Virginia For First Time

10 teams to build giant sculptures out of food cans; competition to benefit Feeding America Southwest Virginia "Canstruction," a creative and competitive event that pits...

Major Luxembourg Based Manufacturing Company Coming To Roanoke

Ardagh Group, a Luxembourg-based global leader in metal and glass packaging, has purchased the 525,000 foot former Hanover Direct building on Hollins Road and...

Floyd Also Has “Classic Car Fest”

The Floyd Auto Fair is scheduled to return to Floyd County’s Chantilly Farm on the weekend of August 17-18, 2013. The increasingly popular two-day...

Trinidad-Tobago Native Discovers American Dream In Roanoke

The distance from Trinidad-Tobago to Roanoke is 2,172 miles, that is the distance that Kris Ramsingh traveled to find his own American dream.  Kris...

High School Football Set for Season With New Classifications

Three weeks from tonight, on August 30th, the 2013 high school football season begins throughout Virginia. Like every year, the rosters will change and different opponents...