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A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researcher is serving on a new federal advisory council focused on helping stem the rise...

Three Virginia Tech researchers have each received money from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award Fund,...

Virginia Tech students David Metzler (left) and Heidi Childs were remembered Saturday at a candlelight vigil at Caldwell Fields in...

Alexa Doiron communitynews@ourvalley.org Photos by Alexa DoironGunin Kiran, Montgomery County School Board Chair, helped to check people into the event....

Jennifer Poff Cooper Contributing writer One in six kids in Virginia lives in families that struggle with hunger. Research shows...

Alexa Doiron communitynews@ourvalley.org Noelle Bissell was recently named Director of NRV Health District and plans to make an impact on...

The animals of the week are from the Humane Society of Montgomery County. Each week the News Messenger will feature...

Virginia State Police First Sergeant J. W. Smith is investigating a fatal crash which occurred on August 26, 2017 at...

A new study from the New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority shows that the numbers of 911 calls from...

Virginia State Police Trooper L. B. Umberger is investigating a fatal crash, which occurred Tuesday afternoon on northbound Interstate 81...