Local Stories

Tall, green and handsome. Stainless steel pint cups replace traditional Styrofoam and plastic drinks cups at the 12th annual Blacksburg...

Marty Gordon While a feasibility study on the condition of rail lines from Roanoke to Christiansburg has been slowed because...

RICHMOND—In Virginia, if a person could not pay court costs or fines, his or her drivers license would be suspended...

The Town of Christiansburg is now accepting applications for candidates for the Christiansburg Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is an...

Three basic rider motorcycle weekend courses are being offered at New River Community College in July. The Basic Rider Course...

The Blacksburg Breakfast Lions Club will host Lion’s on the Lake, an 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. picnic, on Saturday,...

Solitude, the small peaceful house, where slavery, colonization and war were enacted, is now embraced as a contested space where...

Radford University senior, Mercedes Scales, has joined the paper as a summer intern. The News Messenger and the Radford News...

Kitty City, a colony of homeless cats in West Radford, is tended by Edwin Ramos who lives nearby. Over the...

Marty Gordon The town of Christiansburg has announced six grants to local businesses under a new façade program. Assistant Town...