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In response to a steep increase nationally in treatable sexually transmitted disease, or STIs, the Virginia Department of Health mobile...

As is traditional, the Blacksburg Town Council presented the town’s Capital Improvements Plan for public comment during its first meeting...

The January Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Eggs and Issues Breakfast Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce welcomed in the new...

The Montgomery County-Radford City-Floyd County NAACP Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration will be held at 3 p.m....

By Marty Gordon In the Christiansburg Town Council’s first meeting of the year, the issue of temporary home rentals in...

By Marty Gordon Elections are the central institution of a democratic representative government and, in Virginia, about 130 voter registrars...

Emergency Communications Officer Whitney Bedwell was awarded the Life Saver pin by The New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority,...

The Blacksburg town council has requested that the Planning Commission consider potential changes to the town code and zoning ordinances...

Heather Bell has returned to the staff of the Radford News Journal and News Messenger as Community News Editor. Bell...

Liz Kirchner joined the News Messenger/Radford News Journal in Sept. 2017 as the Community News editor of these two hyperlocal...