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Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Mark Miear Friday announced the graduation plans for the schools’ 2020 class.Graduation will take the form...

The Virginia Parole Board has denied the release of a 60-year-old Giles County man convicted in the 1987 murder of...

CHRISTIANSBURG -- The New River Valley Public Health Task Force will hold ongoing drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites on today, Wednesday,...

As the statewide ban on non-essential procedures and operations lifts today, Carilion is implementing plans to gradually resume non-essential surgical...

Not even COVID-19 can stop the periodical cicadas that are coming to Montgomery County.The 17-year Brood IX cicadas will begin...

 Researchers at the field laboratory in Wise County hope to develop new energy sources that will provide an economic transformation...

Stone’s Drive-in Restaurant, later Stone’s Cafeteria, on Roanoke Street in Christiansburg was opened in 1956 by Wendell C. Stone and...

Instructional continuity workshops started on March 16. After two days, in-person workshops like this one were moved online. Photo by...

Sweethaven Lavender Farm is a more than 130-acre farm opened to the public on June 29, 2019, with U-Pick lavender,...

John Munsell, right, and volunteer Jessie Sakach plant rootlets of ramps, a type of wild onion, at Virginia Tech’s Catawba...