
Warner, Kaine announce $6 million investment in Southwest Virginia Workforce Partnership
The New River/Mount Rogers Workforce Investment Area Consortium in Radford will receive a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

The New River/Mount Rogers Workforce Investment Area Consortium in Radford will receive a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Microsoft Corporation will invest $251.6 million to expand its data center site in Mecklenburg County and increase capacity.

The week of November 14-20 marks the second annual National Apprenticeship Week to highlight the value of Registered Apprenticeship.

Virginia Tech is convening a panel of experts on national security, military affairs, and foreign policy to ponder the question, “15 Years After 9/11: Are We Safer?”

Like many Americans, environmental advocates are alarmed at the results of the 2016 election.

Beginning today, Virginians with excess or unused prescription opioids or other drugs can pick up a drug deactivation kit at one of dozens of locations.

In a flash, the election of Donald Trump, pending in the Electoral College, without even a plurality of the vote as a tailwind, has upset the run of apple carts in Washington, D.C.

OK, folks, and I’m looking at you, progressives, friends. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we don’t feel fine.

In the very near future, recycling light energy may be easier than recycling any other item in your house.

Turkeys gobble up the limelight in the weeks before Thanksgiving dinner, but more than 300 Virginia farmers raise turkeys year-round.
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