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Initial unemployment claims hit 43 year low; Labor force increases for fifth consecutive month  Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that...

 For more than 150 years Virginia’s Land-Grant Colleges –Virginia Tech in Blacksburg for large farms and Virginia State at Petersburg...

  National School Choice Week begins today in Virginia and across the country. There are 426 events planned in the...

Roanoke County Police have charged a student at Northside High School with one felony count of Threats to commit serious...

  On the morning of Saturday, January 21, 2017, an HVAC unit will be placed on the roof of the...

Radford students and Feeding America employees are all smiles before starting a full day of service. PHOTOS BY SHAWN NOWLIN...

      Fresh off a string of successes in 2016, the Roanoke Regional Partnership today announced a new five-year fund-raising campaign...

During his last three years on Earth, Martin Luther King went through hell In January 1966, Martin Luther King Jr.—founding president...

A gigantic truck thrills thousands in attendance. Monster truck lovers of all ages recently gathered over a two-day period (Jan....

New Museum Director bridges technology and history   Frances Stebbins | Contributing writer             Frances Marshall McClung Ferguson, just...