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Roanoke Co. Hosts Public Hearing About Real Estate Tax Rate Tue. April 7

The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors will host a public hearing for citizen comments on Tuesday, April 7, at 2:00 concerning 2026 real estate and personal property tax rates in Roanoke...

Carilion Expands Role in Biotechnology Innovation

Carilion Clinic today announced the launch of Usability Works at Carilion Clinic, a new usability engineering...

Statistics Prove: “Yes” Vote Is Pushing The Most Gerrymandered Map In USA

With the final day of voting, April 21, approaching, more Virginians are paying attention to...

Roanoke Animal Cancer Care and Research Center Helps Cat Reach Remission

Cynthia Sutton drives 3 ½ hours every three weeks from Big Stone Gap to Roanoke...

RCPS and Carilion Clinic Announce Long-Term Partnership

Roanoke County Public Schools (RCPS) and Carilion Clinic are proud to announce a long-term partnership...

Former First Lady Roxane Gilmore Pens Book

by Carla M. Bream Virginia's former First Lady, Roxane Gatling Gilmore, has written a new book titled “Restoring the Virginia Governor's House”, about preserving...

Sixteen West Marketplace Could Be Fully Operational Soon

by Gene Marrano John Garland, president of Spectrum Design, architectural and engineering firm, has had a hand in most of the downtown renovation projects...

Elmwood Plans Revealed

by Valerie Garner Elmwood Park Redesign Moves Ahead With A Few Tweaks The first conceptual designs were presented for public input in October 2011. The...

VCE and Roanoke City Offer Leadership Program

by Valerie Garner Since the fall of 2003 the city, through Neighborhood Services, has offered its residents biannual Leadership College classes. Leadership College is...

Tech Unveils Powerful New Supercomputer for the Masses

by Steven Mackey Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world’s top...

Chilly Day With Warm Hearts Marks MLK Celebration

by Valerie Garner The chilly air and gray skies did not diminish the proud smiling faces of the young and the not so young...