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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 Heavenly Valley

The Roanoke Valley really is an extraordinary place to "live and move and have our being as some of our own poets have...

Virginians Weigh In On Key Issues As General Assembly Makes Important Decisions

Voters largely undecided on Cuccinelli and McAuliffe for Governor in 2013 Virginians are not favorably inclined toward Gov. Bob McDonnell’s transportation funding/tax plan, but...

Candidates Waiting on Lt. Governor Bill Bolling Decision

by Valerie Garner The 2013 statewide election for Virginia's governor is becoming more interesting by the day. The Republican presumptive nominee is Attorney General Ken...

Unflappable Laker Launches Silver Seas PR Firm

First he was the Carless Brit, selling his ride on a whim and relying on a bike to get around Roanoke – which he...

Commentator Cokie Roberts Reveals Serious and Fun Side at Hollins

Living media legend Cokie Roberts spoke to a crowd of about 500 at Hollins University Tuesday night.  She’s a political commentator for ABC News,...

Roanokers Fight America’s Malnutrition Epidemic

“My dad died of cancer and two of my friends were diagnosed on that same day,” said Roanoke resident Jeanie Redick at the Roanoke...