Mike and Sherry Smith stand outside of their mobile home on Orange Street in Richlands, Virginia. In February, a winter storm blew through the region and brought widespread flooding. About three feet ...

The Museum Building's original structure dates to the early 1800s. Originally, it housed the law office of James Breckenridge. Photo by Dwayne Yancey. Fincastle Mayor Mary Bess Smith, among others in ...

Policy and safety updates will be at the top of the agenda for the school board in Martinsville when it meets Monday. Photo by Dean-Paul Stephens. The Martinsville City School Board will meet at 6 p.m ...

Appalachian Power has canceled plans to build a battery energy storage system at two sites in Southwest Virginia, one in Smyth County (top yellow marker) and one in Grayson County (bottom yellow ...

Former Roanoke state Sen. Granger Macfarlane has died. He was 95. A Democrat, Macfarlane served two terms in the 1980s and early 1990s. In Richmond, Macfarlane earned a reputation as an ...

Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax County, says if Democrats win the fall elections, they could install a new majority on UVa’s governing board.

A Norfolk Southern train in downtown Roanoke. Photo by Dwayne Yancey. A Virginia law streamlining broadband deployment across railroads is in courthouse limbo. The law is in effect, however, and the ...

To some, this is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to bring academia to heel. To others, this is simply a sign that he’s serious about fulfilling a campaign promise to ...

The Botetourt Center at Greenfield industrial park. Photo by Dwayne Yancey. Google’s plan to build a data center campus at the Botetourt Center at Greenfield is the capstone of 25 years of economic ...

A federal judge in New York on Wednesday extended a temporary restraining order to halt the federal government’s attempt to close Job Corps centers across the country, including two in ...

John Williamson is a former Botetourt County administrator, a former Buchanan District supervisor and currently chairman of RGC Resources. He lives in Botetourt County.

Like it or not, there’s only one form of energy we can get onto the grid quickly. The Big Beautiful Bill would shut that down in favor of energy that takes longer to develop.