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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...

Corps Of Cadets To Honor Families

­ In honor of Family Day, the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets will hold a formal review on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m. on the...

Positively Pink Parade Draws 100’s To Valley View

More than 300 people formed a parade that snaked through the first floor of the Valley View Mall in Roanoke on Saturday. Shoppers stopped...

Local Photographer Takes Eye-Opening Trip To Cuba

If you take in one of Roanoke’s sidewalk art shows, including the recent Art in the Alley on Jefferson St., you may have come...

Inaugural TEDxVirginiaTech To Highlight Innovative Ideas

Virginia Tech Faculty, students, and alumni who are "inventing the future" with ideas worth spreading will represent the university at the first TEDxVirginiaTechevent on Nov....

Master Naturalists Take On Invasive Garlic Mustard Plants on Poor Mountain

As any naturalist knows, sometimes nature calls the shots, so when the Roanoke Valley Master Naturalists had to cancel a planned outing to pull...

New City Attorney Starts Work Without Title

New Hampshire lawyer Daniel Callaghan was selected by Roanoke City Council from a pool of 33 applicants to fill the vacant Roanoke City Attorney...