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The Giles County Sheriff's Office shared new details Wednesday. → Read More
CHRISTIANSBURG — There was no shortage of excitement during five years as Montgomery County’s schools superintendent, Brenda Blackburn said last week on her last day on the job. → Read More
A single shot from a police firearm ended a series of foot and vehicle chases Saturday morning in Thrasher Memorial Park. → Read More
CHRISTIANSBURG — Montgomery County won’t be able to borrow money for years because of the new schools that it built but still faces millions of dollars of unmet repair needs at its older school facilities. → Read More
BLACKSBURG — Blacksburg can develop into a denser, more urban community or its growing population can push sprawl into surrounding parts of Montgomery County — where the town won’t get the tax revenue from new housing and businesses — town council members said Tuesday. → Read More
An early morning fire damaged a Salem house but caused no injuries today, Salem officials reported. → Read More
BLACKSBURG — All week the instruments came into LewisGale Hospital Montgomery — fiddles and banjos, guitars and mandolins, a lap dulcimer and an accordion and a bass, a triangle and a washboard and a set of bones. → Read More
PULASKI – This afternoon – just a week after the announcement that the Seattle Mariners were pulling their farm team out of Pulaski’s Calfee Park – town officials and the ballfield’s new management announced that Pulaski has a new affiliation with one if not the most prominent franchises in sport: the New York Yankees. → Read More
BLACKSBURG — Appalachian Power Co.’s plans to add a fee to the bills of some solar panel-equipped households drew criticism Monday in the town that just finished a first-in-Virginia solar power drive. → Read More
BLACKSBURG — Appalachian Power Co.’s plans to add a fee to the bills of some solar panel-equipped households drew criticism Monday in the town that just finished a first-in-Virginia solar power drive. → Read More
PULASKI — Appalachian League baseball is getting a reset in the town with the departure of the Seattle Mariners farm team, the arrival of new owners and an impending multimillion face-lift for 79-year-old Calfee Park. → Read More
Big changes are beginning at Pulaski's Calfee Park with the departure of the Seattle Mariners farm team, the arrival of new owners and an impending million-dollar overhaul of the historic ballfield's facilities. → Read More
RADFORD — For most of the students swarming onto Radford University’s campus, Friday was a flood of hand-trucks and foot-lockers, an over-supply of moving vans and a shortage of parking spaces, the semi-organized start of another academic year. → Read More
ELLISTON — A two-year, $9.8 million effort has begun to smooth the way for trucks to reach Norfolk Southern’s still-unbuilt intermodal rail yard in eastern Montgomery County. → Read More
RADFORD – Poll workers seem likely to outnumber voters in Montgomery County during the Aug. 19 special election to replace retired state Sen. Phil Puckett. → Read More
The town of Blacksburg is paying $890,000 for a former restaurant on the edge of the town’s Progress Street parking lot — and plans to tear it down and eventually replace it with a parking deck. → Read More
BLACKSBURG – The former First National Bank of Blacksburg sold for $630,000 at a foreclosure auction today. → Read More
Del. Joseph Yost hopes that next year, hemp growing will become legal — and widespread — in Virginia. → Read More
RADFORD — Charmaine Walker knew she’d have trouble with math during her senior year. → Read More
The high fees that the Radford school system charges for copies of audio recordings of school board meetings continued to raise eyebrows this week. → Read More