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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...

Growing The Greenways

by Gene Marrano As Roanoke’s greenway system continues to grow in bits and pieces there is help from volunteers on a regular basis, supplying...

Tim Kaine And Mark Warner Visit Medical School

by Valerie Garner Virginia’s U.S. Senator Mark Warner and former governor and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Tim Kaine took a whirlwind tour of...

Scientist Turns To Public to Help Fund Excavation

Dr. Alton Dooley, curator of paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, has spent the majority of his career excavating Virginia’s Carmel...

Debate Will Provide Opportunity To Size Up Mayoral Candidates

by Valerie Garner A one-on-one debate between Democratic incumbent Mayor David Bowers and the Republican challenger businessman Mark Lucas will give voters the contrast...

Kissito Makes Progress On Two Fronts In Africa

by Gene Marrano Roanoke-based Kissito Healthcare International (KHI), which is currently building a hospital in Ethiopia, is also working at another clinic in Uganda...

Virginia Tech Corps Of Cadets To Host First ‘Jazz On The Upper Quad’ Event

by Carrie Cox The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets will present the first ever "Jazz on the Upper Quad" event on Friday, April 20....